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April 01, 2016

The Moon thought to play a major role in maintaining Earth's magnetic field
Paris, France (SPX) Apr 01, 2016
The Earth's magnetic field permanently protects us from the charged particles and radiation that originate in the Sun. This shield is produced by the geodynamo, the rapid motion of huge quantities of liquid iron alloy in the Earth's outer core. To maintain this magnetic field until the present day, the classical model required the Earth's core to have cooled by around 3,000C over the past 4.3 billion years. Now, a team of researchers from CNRS and Universite Blaise Pascal1 suggests that, on the co ... read more

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'Mixed Reality' Technology Brings Mars to Earth What might it look like if you were walking around on Mars? A group of researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, has been working on methods to take this question from t ... more		Water System Tested on Crew Access Arm at KSC Engineers and technicians gathered at dusk recently at a construction site near Kennedy Space Center in Florida to test systems that will support Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft. The Cre ... more		Amateur Stargazer Witnesses Asteroid Catastrophe Unfolding on Jupiter A unique video of Jupiter colliding with an asteroid has been captured by an astronomy enthusiast using a hobby telescope. A 30-seconds video shot on March 17 by Austrian amateur Gerrit Kernba ... more
				Russia launches cargo ship to space station Russia on Thursday launched a cargo ship to the International Space Station on an unmanned mission to resupply crew currently in space. ... more		UWM to continue operating IceCube Neutrino Observatory The National Science Foundation has renewed a cooperative agreement with the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) to operate the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a massive particle detector bur ... more

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INTEGRAL sets limits on gamma rays from merging black holes Following the discovery of gravitational waves from the merging of two black holes, ESA's INTEGRAL satellite has revealed no simultaneous gamma rays, just as models predict. On 14 September, the ter ... more		Webb Telescope Instruments Removed From Super-Cold Chamber A new video from NASA shows the James Webb Space Telescope's cameras and spectrographs being lifted out of the Space Environment Simulator at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Marylan ... 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		Earth-Space Telescope System Produces Hot Surprise Astronomers using an orbiting radio telescope in conjunction with four ground-based radio telescopes have achieved the highest resolution, or ability to discern fine detail, of any astronomical obse ... more
				Has Tiangong 1 gone rogue China's announcement in late March that telemetry to the Tiangong 1 space laboratory had ceased is disturbing. The language used in the original Xinhua story was vague, but strongly suggested that T ... more		'Smoothed' light will help search for Earth's twins Physicists of MIPT (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology) and the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences developed optical technology for the "correction" of light coming ... more

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A new view of the X-ray sky Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) have revisited the all-sky survey carried out by the ROSAT satellite, to create a new image of the sky in at X-ray wavelengt ... more		Tracking deer by NASA satellite Mule deer mothers are in sync with their environment, with reproduction patterns that closely match the cycles of plant growth in their habitat. And new research using NASA satellite data shows that ... 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		Martian winds slowly build enormous mounds over billions of years New research has found that wind carved massive mounds of more than a mile high on Mars over billions of years. Their location helps pin down when water on the Red Planet dried up during a global cl ... more
Magnetar could have boosted explosion of extremely bright supernova Calculations by scientists have found highly magnetized, rapidly spinning neutron stars called magnetars could explain the energy source behind two extremely unusual stellar explosions. Stella ... more		NASA's Spitzer Maps Climate Patterns on a Super-Earth Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have led to the first temperature map of a super-Earth planet - a rocky planet nearly two times as big as ours. The map reveals extreme temperature s ... more		Trigger for Milky Way's Youngest Supernova Identified Scientists have used data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the NSF's Jansky Very Large Array to determine the likely trigger for the most recent supernova in the Milky Way. They applied a n ... more		Lockheed Martin tests Aegis on Australian destroyer A Lockheed Martin integrated test team has started installing an Aegis combat system aboard Australia's first Hobart-class air warfare destroyer. ... more

	N. Korea still years from solid-fuel missile system: US expert North Korea's recent solid-fuel rocket engine test suggests a step forward in missile technology, but it remains many years from using such advanced motors for a long-range missile capable of striking the US mainland, a US missile expert said Wednesday. ... more		The ocean below Vast and amorphous, the ocean covers more than 70 percent of the Earth's surface. It is a key player in the global carbon cycle, producing about half of the world's output of organic carbon. U ... more

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