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March 17, 2016

Building better solar technologies for deep space missions
Hampton VA (SPX) Mar 17, 2016
NASA's Game Changing Development (GCD) program has selected four proposals to develop solar array technologies that will aid spacecraft in exploring destinations well beyond low-Earth orbit, including Mars. NASA's future deep space missions will require solar arrays that can operate in high-radiation and low-temperature environments. Developing a new generation of solar power technologies that focuses on these attributes will improve mission performance, increase solar array life, and ultimately m ... read more

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Hexagonal diamond could serve as meteor impact marker In 1967, a hexagonal form of diamond, later named lonsdaleite, was identified for the first time inside fragments of the Canyon Diablo meteorite, the asteroid that created the Barringer Crater in Ar ... more		SDU researchers present a new model for what dark matter might be Dark matter is all around us. Though no one has ever seen it, and no one knows what it really is, indisputable physical calculations state that approximately 27% of the universe is dark matter. Only ... more		Dark matter satellites trigger massive birth of stars One of the main predictions of the current model of the creation of structures in the universe, known at the Lambda Cold Dark Matter model, is that galaxies are embedded in very extended and massive ... more
				Outsourcing crystal growth...to space Sometimes, distance can lend a new perspective to a problem. For Japanese researchers studying protein crystal growth, that distance was 250 miles up - the altitude at which the International Space ... more		How to Detect Colliding Black Holes On March 18, 2016, Harald Pfeiffer, Associate Professor at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Physics, Toronto, will be honoured with a Bessel Award of the Humboldt Foundation. The award will al ... more

The Saturnian Sisters Similar in many ways, Saturn's moons Tethys and Rhea (left and right, respectively) even share a discoverer: Giovanni Cassini, namesake of the NASA spacecraft that captured this view. The moon ... more		Robert Goddard's Rocket and the Launch of Spaceflight Ninety years ago, on March 16, 1926, a rocket lifted off - not with a bang, but with a subtle, quiet flame - and forever changed the scope of scientific exploration. This event ties directly to the ... more		Romania says Russian drone breached its airspace MSBAI wins DoD contract to accelerate OrbitGuard for space situational awarenes AI powered SAR imagery analysis tool launched by SATIM and ICEYE		Pluto's 'Snakeskin' Terrain: Cradle of the Solar System? Today's blog post is from Orkan Umurhan, a mathematical physicist currently working as a senior post-doc at NASA Ames Research Center. He has been on the New Horizons Science Team for over two years ... more
				Celebrate Pi Day with NASA Goddard and Pi-Sat The Innovative Technology Partnerships Office (ITPO) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, invites educators, students and the general public to celebrate Pi Day and discover ... more		Dueling Climate Cycles May Increase Sea Level Swings The tropical Pacific Ocean isn't flat like a pond. Instead, it regularly has a high side and a low side. Natural cycles such as El Nino and La Nina events cause this sea level seesaw to tip back and ... more

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Mysterious infrared light from space resolved perfectly A research team using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has detected the faintest millimeter-wave source ever observed. By accumulating millimeter-waves from faint objects like ... more		The Tilted Terminator Of Enceladus NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this view of Saturn's moon Enceladus that shows wrinkled plains that are remarkably youthful in appearance, being generally free of large impact craters. Whe ... more		Ash improves methane yield and fertilizer value in biogas systems Bio-oil from agricultural and forest waste could help seal abandoned oil wells and store carbon Rice researchers turn wasted data center heat into clean power		Clocking the rotation rate of a supermassive black hole A recent observational campaign involving more than two dozen optical telescopes and NASA's space based SWIFT X-ray telescope allowed a team of astronomers to measure very accurately the rotational ... more
Unique optical trapping system offers way to launch high-power laser light Researchers have demonstrated, for the first time, that laser light can be used to manipulate a glass optical fiber tapered to a sharp point smaller than a speck of dust, in the middle of an optical ... more		Microbial Mats Offer Clues To Life on Early Earth Ancient clusters of rock that preserve some of the oldest microbes on Earth occasionally possess mysterious branch-like formations. Now, scientists think they know what might have caused this enigma ... more		NIST's internet time service serves the world The Internet Time Service operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) serves much of the Earth, with customers from around the globe. In one month of study alone, jus ... more		Satellites to help check unauthorised construction at monuments The National Remote Sensing Centre of ISRO has signed an agreement with the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) for preparing satellite-based maps to help check unauthorised construction around ove ... more

	Improving farm and water management with DMC constellation In 2011, eLEAF received funding from the Western Cape Department of Agriculture, Hortgro and ESA to start the FruitLook project. The purpose of this project is to provide farmers with an improved kn ... more		IU physicist leads discovery of new particle: '4-flavored' tetraquark Research led by Indiana University physicist Daria Zieminska has resulted in the first detection of a new form of elementary particle: the "four-flavored" tetraquark. Zieminska, a senior scien ... more

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Close comet flyby threw Mars' magnetic field into chaos

Euro-Russian Mission to Mars'a Response to Foolish Political Sanctions'

NASA station leads way for improved measurements of Earth orientation, shape

Roscosmos-NASA Contract on US Astronauts Delivery to ISS on Restructuring

Unpacking space radiation to control astronaut and earthbound cancer risk

Permanent Lunar Colony Possible in 10 Years

ISRO to test plane-shaped reusable rocket

Space station astronauts ham it up to inspire student scientists

US Air Force awards ULA and XCOR contract for upper stage propulsion

NASA Prepares to Fly - First RS-25 Flight Engine Test Set for March

ISRO launches PSLV C32, India's sixth navigation satellite

Coming to a hotel near you: the robot humanoid receptionist

Total invisibility cloak an impossibility, scientists say

Lockheed Closes in On Mach 6 Hypersonic Aircraft Technology

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