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August 02, 2016

Mars Gullies Likely Not Formed by Liquid Water
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 02, 2016
New findings using data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show that gullies on modern Mars are likely not being formed by flowing liquid water. This new evidence will allow researchers to further narrow theories about how Martian gullies form, and reveal more details about Mars' recent geologic processes. Scientists use the term "gully" for features on Mars that share three characteristics in their shape: an alcove at the top, a channel, and an apron of deposited material at the bottom. ... read more

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Five Years Post-Launch, Juno Is at a Turning Point Five years after departing Earth, and a month after slipping into orbit around Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft is nearing a turning point. On July 31 at 12:41 p.m. PDT (3:41 p.m. EDT), Juno will rea ... more		NASA Orders Second SpaceX Crew Mission to International Space Station NASA took another important step Friday in returning U.S. astronaut launches from U.S. soil with the order of a second post-certification mission from commercial provider SpaceX in Hawthorne, Califo ... more		Progress is Heard as RS-25 Engine Roars to Life for NASA's Space Launch System Aerojet Rocketdyne, a subsidiary of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. has tested NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) RS-25 development engine, 0528, as the engine roared to life for 650 seconds at NASA ... more
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SSL Selected To Provide Two Powerful Satellites To SiriusXM Space Systems Loral (SSL), a leading provider of innovative satellites and spacecraft systems, reports it has been selected to provide two high power satellites to SiriusXM, the world's largest radi ... more		Chorus of Black Holes Sings in X-Rays Supermassive black holes in the universe are like a raucous choir singing in the language of X-rays. When black holes pull in surrounding matter, they let out powerful X-ray bursts. This song of X-r ... more		AI powered SAR imagery analysis tool launched by SATIM and ICEYE Ghosts of the Deep: China's AJX-002 XLUUV and the Geopolitics of Undersea Power Global Invacom unveils XRJ transceiver for government and defense satcom		Faint Hisses from Space Reveal Famous Star's Past Astronomers have managed to peer into the past of a nearby star millions of years before its famous explosion, using a telescope in remote outback Australia at a site free from FM radio interference ... more
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