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August 07, 2015

From a million miles away, NASA camera shows moon crossing face of Earth
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 07, 2015
A NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured a unique view of the moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. The series of test images shows the fully illuminated "dark side" of the moon that is never visible from Earth. The images were captured by NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a four megapixel CCD camera and telescope on the DSCOVR satellite orbiting 1 million miles from Earth. From its position between the sun and ... read more

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				'Snowball Earth' Might Be Slushy Imagine a world without liquid water - just solid ice in all directions. It would certainly not be a place that most life forms would like to live. And yet our planet has gone through several frozen ... more		The ghost of a dying star This extraordinary bubble, glowing like the ghost of a star in the haunting darkness of space, may appear supernatural and mysterious, but it is a familiar astronomical object: a planetary nebula, t ... more

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NASA Renews $490Mln Contract With Russian Space Agency Congressional failure to fund spacecraft development has forced the National Aeronautical Space Administration's (NASA) to extend a nearly half-billion dollar contract with Russia to fly astronauts ... more		New Study Sheds Light on Origin of Most Common Meteorites For decades astronomers debated the source of the most common type of meteorites that fall on Earth called H ordinary chondrites. A new study by researchers at the Planetary Science Institute sheds ... more		U.S. defense in free fall U.S. and Saudis conduct Middle East's largest counter-drone exercise Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign mutual defense pact		Researchers Use 'Seafloor Gardens' to Switch on Light Bulb One of the key necessities for life on our planet is electricity. That's not to say that life requires a plug and socket, but everything from shrubs to ants to people harnesses energy via the transf ... more
				New Online Exploring Tools Bring NASA's Journey to Mars to New Generation On the three-year anniversary of the Mars landing of NASA's Curiosity rover, NASA is unveiling two new online tools that open the mysterious terrain of the Red Planet to a new generation of explorer ... more		Caltech astronomers unveil a distant protogalaxy connected to the cosmic web A team of astronomers led by Caltech has discovered a giant swirling disk of gas 10 billion light-years away--a galaxy-in-the-making that is actively being fed cool primordial gas tracing back to th ... more

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Celebrating a year at the comet ESA's Rosetta mission today celebrates one year at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, with its closest approach to the Sun now just one week away. It's been a long but exciting journey for Rosetta sin ... more		China to deploy space-air-ground sensors for environment protection China will build a space-air-ground integrated sensing system to detect and stop pollution, according to the Ministry of Environmental Protection Tuesday. China's central authorities decided i ... more		Fossil fuels harm health from 'cradle to grave': report Trash, mulch and security: All jobs for troops in Washington Rising oceans to threaten 1.5 million Australians by 2050: report		Spaceflight may increase susceptibility to inflammatory bowel disease Here's the summary of a new research report appearing in the August 2015 issue of The FASEB Journal: Prolonged spaceflight may give you a nasty case of diarrhea. Specifically, when mice were subject ... more
IBM acquires medical imaging firm to help Watson 'see' IBM said Thursday it was boosting the capacity of its Watson supercomputer, acquiring the medical imaging group Merge Healthcare for $1 billon. ... more		NASA signs $490 mn contract with Russia for ISS travel NASA has extended a contract with Russia's space agency for $490 million to carry US astronauts to the International Space Station amid a lack of Congressional funding, the US agency said Wednesday. ... more		Study: All planetary rings governed by particle distribution principle The rings of Saturn and Jupiter and those of satellites, planets and exoplanets all have something in common - the distribution of their ring particles is governed by the same mathematical law. ... more		Robotic maker system will build biggest composite rocket parts ever made A titan now resides at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This titan is no Greek god, but one of the largest composites manufacturing robots created in America, and it will ... more

	Russia delivers 2 RD-181 rocket engines to US Russia has shipped two RD-181 rocket engines to the US under a $1 billion contract with US Orbital Sciences Corporation for the delivery of 60 engines for its Antares launcher. "On July 16 the ... more		MSG-4, Europe's latest weather satellite, delivers first image The Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) instrument on MSG-4 captured its first image of Earth. This demonstrates that Europe's latest geostationary weather satellite, launch ... more

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