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October 23, 2016

European craft crashed on Mars, possibly exploded: ESA
Paris (AFP) Oct 21, 2016
A tiny lander despatched to Mars on a trial run had crashed and possibly exploded on the Red Planet, mission control said Friday, confirming Europe's second failed attempt to reach the alien surface. The paddling pool-sized Schiaparelli craft "crashed on the surface of Mars", Thierry Blancquaert told AFP from European Space Agency (ESA) mission control in Darmstadt, Germany - ending two days of uncertainty about the lander's fate. A NASA photograph of the intended landing site revealed the 600- ... read more

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Curious tilt of the Sun traced to undiscovered planet Planet Nine - the undiscovered planet at the edge of the solar system that was predicted by the work of Caltech's Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown in January 2016 - appears to be responsible for th ... more		Orbital cargo ship arrives at space station An unmanned cargo ship operated by the US company Orbital ATK arrived Sunday at the International Space Station, delivering 2.5 tons of food and supplies to the six astronauts living in orbit. ... more		DARPA to transfer Space Surveillance Telescope to US Air Force At a mountaintop in New Mexico, DARPA is marking the formal transition of its Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) from an Agency-led design and construction program to ownership and operation by U.S. ... more
				No GPS, no problem: Next-generation navigation A team of researchers at the University of California, Riverside has developed a highly reliable and accurate navigation system that exploits existing environmental signals such as cellular and Wi-F ... more		Cosmological Mystery Solved by Map of Voids and Superclusters A team of astrophysicists at the University of Portsmouth have created the largest ever map of voids and superclusters in the universe, which helps solve a long-standing cosmological mystery. The ma ... more

Small impacts are reworking the moon's soil faster than scientists thoug The Moon's surface is being "gardened" - churned by small impacts - more than 100 times faster than scientists previously thought. This means that surface features believed to be young are perhaps e ... more		Scientists use Moon to study dinosaur killer A team of scientists led by Universities Space Research Association's David Kring at the Lunar and Planetary Institute is using observations of the Moon to further understand the impact on Earth tha ... more		Chinese defence minister tells US counterpart containing China 'futile' China chides 'economic pressure' over Trump threat of Russian oil tariffs Russian drones in Poland put NATO to the test		2016 Ends with Three Supermoons Step outside on October 16, and take a look at the moon. Not only will the moon be full, but on that day, the moon will be at it's closest point to our planet as it orbits Earth. This makes the Octo ... more
				Possible Clouds on Pluto, Next Target is Reddish The next target for NASA's New Horizons mission - which made a historic flight past Pluto in July 2015 - apparently bears a colorful resemblance to its famous, main destination. NASA's Hubble ... more		Long-term, hi-res tracking of eruptions on Jovian moon Io Jupiter's moon Io continues to be the most volcanically active body in the solar system, as documented by the longest series of frequent, high-resolution observations of the moon's thermal emission ... more

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UM researchers study vast carbon residue of ocean life The oceans hold a vast reservoir - 700 billion tons - of carbon, dissolved in seawater as organic matter, often surviving for thousands of years after being produced by ocean life. Yet, little is kn ... more		The 1950s: The decade in which gravity physics became experimental In the 1950s and earlier, the gravity theory of Einstein's general relativity was largely a theoretical science. In a new paper published in EPJ H, Jim Peebles, a physicist and theoretical cosmologi ... more		Polymer breakthrough to improve things we use everyday Medicine, mobile phones, computers and clothes could all be enhanced using the process for making paint, according to research by the University of Warwick. A breakthrough in the understanding of po ... more		Graphene cracks the glass corrosion problem Researchers at the Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials (CMCM), within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) have demonstrated graphene coating protects glass from corrosion. Their res ... more

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