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December 08, 2016

ExoMars orbiter images Phobos
Paris (ESA) Dec 07, 2016
The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has imaged the martian moon Phobos as part of a second set of test science measurements made since it arrived at the Red Planet on 19 October. The Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), a joint endeavour between ESA and Roscosmos, made its first scientific calibration measurements during two orbits between 20 and 28 November. Example data from the first orbit were published last week, focusing on Mars itself. During the second orbit, the instruments made a number of measureme ... read more

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European ministers ready ESA for a United Space in Europe in the era of Space 4.0 ESA has concluded a two-day Council meeting at ministerial level in Lucerne, Switzerland. Ministers in charge for space matters from ESA's 22 member states plus Slovenia and Canada allocated 10.3 bi ... more		Opportunity team plot path forward to the 'Gully' Opportunity is heading towards the next science waypoint on the rim of Endeavour Crater. Early in this period, Sols 4556 and 4559 (Nov. 16, 2016 and Nov. 19, 2016) she did quite a bit of explo ... more		Mars One puts back planned colonisation of Red Planet A British-Dutch company planning to install a community of humans on Mars admitted on Wednesday that it's project will be delayed by several years. ... more
				Meta musings on the origins of life In 1953, the chemist Stanley Miller cracked open one of the deepest mysteries of science. Working under his mentor Harold Urey, Miller electrified a mixture of water vapor and gases thought to make ... more		Evidence suggests early Mars was warmer and wetter Scientists are generally in agreement that water once flowed on Mars. The nature of those flows and the conditions that made them possible are less obvious, however. ... more

Dark matter may be more smoothly distributed throughout cosmos New analysis of a phenomenon known as cosmic shear suggests dark matter is less dense and more evenly - or smoothly - distributed throughout space. The revelation was detailed this week in a new paper published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. ... more		ALMA measures size of seeds of planets Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), have for the first time, achieved a precise size measurement of small dust particles around a young star through radio-wave ... 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		Curiosity Rover Team Examining New Drill Hiatus NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is studying its surroundings and monitoring the environment, rather than driving or using its arm for science, while the rover team diagnoses an issue with a motor that m ... more
				Space gardener Shane Kimbrough enjoys first of multiple harvests For a mid-afternoon snack, NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough cut some of the "Outredgeous" Red Romaine lettuce leaves he nurtured during the past month aboard the International Space Station as part of ... more		Where giant galaxies are born An international team of scientists, with IAC participation, has discovered that the biggest galaxies in the universe develop in cosmic clouds of cold gas. This finding, which was made possible usin ... more

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New aspect of atom mimicry for nanotechnology applications In nanotechnology control is key. Control over the arrangements and distances between nanoparticles can allow tailored interaction strengths so that properties can be harnessed in devices such as pl ... more		Wall-jumping robot is most vertically agile ever built Roboticists at UC Berkeley have designed a small robot that can leap into the air and then spring off a wall, or perform multiple vertical jumps in a row, resulting in the highest robotic vertical j ... more		Why friction depends on the number of layers Based on simulations, friction properties of the two-dimensional carbon graphene were studied by scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in cooperation with researchers of the Fraunhof ... more		High-precision magnetic field sensing Researchers from the Institute for Biomedical Engineering, which is operated jointly by ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich, have succeeded in measuring tiny changes in strong magnetic fields wi ... more

	TeamIndus signs contract with ISRO for lunar mission Domestic space technology startup TeamIndus on Thursday signed a first-of-its-kind contract with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to send a TeamIndus robot to the Moon. TeamIndus will l ... more		NASA's AIM observes early noctilucent ice clouds over Antarctica Data from NASA's Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere, or AIM, spacecraft shows the sky over Antarctica is glowing electric blue due to the start of noctilucent, or night-shining, cloud season in the S ... more

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