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  Beijing (XNA) Aug 17, 2018 China's moon lander and rover for the Chang'e-4 lunar probe, which is expected to land on the far side of the moon this year, was unveiled Wednesday. Images displayed at Wednesday's press conference showed the rover was a rectangular box with two foldable solar panels and six wheels. It is 1.5 meters long, 1 meter wide and 1.1 meters high. Wu Weiren, the chief designer of China's lunar probe program, said the Chang'e-4 rover largely kept the shape and conditions of its predecessor, Yutu (Jad ... read more |
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NASA Team Demonstrates "Science on a Shoestring" with Greenhouse Gas-Measuring InstrumentGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 17, 2018 A novel instrument that has already proven its mettle on field campaigns will attempt to measure atmospheric greenhouse gases from an occultation-viewing, low-Earth-orbiting CubeSat mission called M ... more  
Six Things About Opportunity'S Recovery EffortsPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 17, 2018 NASA's Opportunity rover has been silent since June 10, when a planet-encircling dust storm cut off solar power for the nearly-15-year-old rover. Now that scientists think the global dust storm is " ... more 
The Science Team Continues to Listen for Opportunity as Storm DiminishesPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 17, 2018 The planet-encircling dust storm on Mars continues to decay, although in fits and starts. Atmospheric opacity (tau) over the rover site was estimated down near 2.1, but then popped up to 2.5. ... more  
NASA Administrator Views SLS Progress During First Visit to MarshallHuntsville AL (SPX) Aug 17, 2018 Completing a three-day tour spanning three states, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine made his first visit to the Rocket City as the agency's administrator on Wednesday, Aug. 15. Bridenstine spent t ... more |
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Arecibo Observatory to get $5.8 Million Upgrade to Expand ViewOrlando FL (SPX) Aug 17, 2018 The National Science Foundation has awarded a team of scientists $5.8 million to design and mount a supersensitive antenna at the focal point of the Arecibo Observatory's 1,000-foot-diameter dish, w ... more  
Aerojet Rocketdyne Expands Solid Rocket Motor Center of Excellence at Arkansas FacilityLittle Rock AR (SPX) Aug 17, 2018 Aerojet Rocketdyne, a leader in the development and manufacture of aerospace and defense products, has announced plans to expand its Southern Arkansas facility near Camden, where the company manufac ... more  
Astronomers discover the most distant radio galaxy everAmsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Aug 10, 2018 After nearly twenty years, the record of the most distant radio galaxy ever discovered has been broken. A team led by PhD student Aayush Saxena (Leiden Observatory, the Netherlands) has found a radi ... more  
Ultrahot planets have starlike atmospheresTempe AZ (SPX) Aug 10, 2018 Recent observations by NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes of ultrahot Jupiter-like planets have perplexed theorists. The spectra of these planets have suggested they have exotic - and improb ... more 
Magnetic fields can quash zonal jets deep in gas giantsLivermore CA (SPX) Aug 10, 2018 Magnetic fields around a planet or the Sun can overpower the zonal jets that affect atmospheric circulation. New research by a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientist and a col ... more |
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Elliptical EleganceMunich, Germany (SPX) Aug 10, 2018 A glittering host of galaxies populate this rich image taken with ESO's VLT Survey Telescope, a state-of-the-art 2.6-m telescope designed for surveying the sky in visible light. The features of the ... more  |
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Scientists develop way to supercool liquids without freezing themWashington (UPI) Aug 10, 2018 Researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Engineering in Medicine have developed a new way to supercool liquids without freezing them. ... more  
Primate study offers clues to evolution of speechCambridge UK (SPX) Aug 10, 2018 New research examining the brains and vocal repertoires of primates offers important insight into the evolution of human speech. The vocal tract and larynx is similar in form and function amon ... more  
Ice sheets of the last ice age seeded the ocean with silicaBristol AZ (SPX) Aug 14, 2018 New research led by glaciologists and isotope geochemists from the University of Bristol has found that melting ice sheets provide the surrounding oceans with the essential nutrient silica. Si ... more 
Impact of a stellar intruder on our solar systemBonn, Germany (SPX) Aug 10, 2018 The solar system was formed from a protoplanetary disk consisting of gas and dust. Since the cumulative mass of all objects beyond Neptune is much smaller than expected and the bodies there have mos ... more  
Meteorite bombardment likely to have created the Earth's oldest rocksBoston MA (SPX) Aug 14, 2018 Scientists have found that 4.02 billion year old silica-rich felsic rocks from the Acasta River, Canada - the oldest rock formation known on Earth - probably formed at high temperatures and at a sur ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 17, 2018 
Completing a three-day tour spanning three states, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine made his first visit to the Rocket City as the agency's administrator on Wednesday, Aug. 15. Bridenstine spent the day at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where he was briefed on space station science operations, technology development and Space Launch System (SLS) progress.
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 Little Rock AR (SPX) Aug 17, 2018 
Aerojet Rocketdyne, a leader in the development and manufacture of aerospace and defense products, has announced plans to expand its Southern Arkansas facility near Camden, where the company manufactures solid rocket motors and warheads critical to national defense.
Aerojet Rocketdyne's currently envisioned expansion plans include investing in new infrastructure and creating more than 140 ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 17, 2018 
NASA's Opportunity rover has been silent since June 10, when a planet-encircling dust storm cut off solar power for the nearly-15-year-old rover. Now that scientists think the global dust storm is "decaying" - meaning more dust is falling out of the atmosphere than is being raised back into it - skies might soon clear enough for the solar-powered rover to recharge and attempt to "phone home." ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 17, 2018 
China's moon lander and rover for the Chang'e-4 lunar probe, which is expected to land on the far side of the moon this year, was unveiled Wednesday.
Images displayed at Wednesday's press conference showed the rover was a rectangular box with two foldable solar panels and six wheels. It is 1.5 meters long, 1 meter wide and 1.1 meters high.
Wu Weiren, the chief designer of China's lun ... more |
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 Bengaluru (IANS) Aug 14, 2018 
Indian space agency ISRO will launch GSAT-32 satellite in October 2019 to replace GSAT-6A which stopped communicating a few days after its launch on March 29, an official said on Sunday.
"We have not been able to establish a link with GSAT-6A satellite so far. Even as we are continuously monitoring the satellite, as days are progressing, our chances of reviving it are less."
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 West Lafayette IN (SPX) Aug 10, 2018 
The same way that yeast yields beer and bread can help hospital lab workers better track their daily radiation exposure, enabling a faster assessment of tissue damage that could lead to cancer.
But rather than building portable cellars or ovens, Purdue University researchers have engineered yeast "microbreweries" within disposable badges made of freezer paper, aluminum and tape. Simply add ... more |
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 Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia (SPX) Aug 17, 2018 
The importance of the finding is that the organic acid is much more difficult to obtain than other organic molecules found in protoplanetary discs before. If methanol is obtained from carbon monoxide on the surface of dust particles under stellar radiation, then formic acid requires more complex reactions, which are not possible without active processes of organic synthesis.
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 Canberra, Australia (SPX) Aug 10, 2018 
Scientists from Australia and the United States have helped to solve the mystery underlying Jupiter's coloured bands in a new study on the interaction between atmospheres and magnetic fields.
Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system. Unlike Earth, Jupiter has no solid surface - it is a gaseous planet, consisting mostly of hydrogen and helium.
Several strong jet streams flo ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Aug 10, 2018 
While the cold and airless deep sea is inhabitable for humans, it is filled with delicate organisms that thrive in its harsh environment. Studying those organisms requires specialized equipment mounted on a remotely operated vehicle (ROV); any other type of equipment could literally crack under pressure.
A multidisciplinary group of engineers, marine biologists, and roboticists have develo ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 7, 2018 
Envistacom has announced it has received a contract for the DAGRS handheld GPS navigation system that is used for many military purposes.
The contract, announced Tuesday by the company, is valued at up to $480 million over five years and covers both U.S. Army and Navy customers. The contract will include prototype design and other technical services to update the system.
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Aug 14, 2018 
The Indian Space Agency had planned the launch of its second moon mission for October this year, but scientists reviewing their preparedness suggested that more tests were needed before the launch. The mission is now likely to be preceded by Israel's moon mission, planned for December this year.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has announced the postponement of its much-awaite ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 14, 2018 
The detection of "mini-moons" - small asteroids temporarily captured in orbit around Earth - will vastly improve our scientific understanding of asteroids and the Earth-Moon system, says a new review published in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Science. These small and fast-moving visitors have so-far evaded detection by existing technology, with only one confirmed mini-moon discovery to date. ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 17, 2018 
A novel instrument that has already proven its mettle on field campaigns will attempt to measure atmospheric greenhouse gases from an occultation-viewing, low-Earth-orbiting CubeSat mission called Mini-Carb early next year - marking the first time this type of instrument has flown in space.
Emily Wilson, a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is teaming w ... more |
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 Warwick UK (SPX) Aug 14, 2018 
Historic space weather may help us understand what's coming next, according to new research by the University of Warwick.
Professor Sandra Chapman, from Warwick's Centre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics, led a project which charted the space weather in previous solar cycles across the last half century, and discovered an underlying repeatable pattern in how space weather activity changes ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 10, 2018 
Folding and refolding bed sheets to ensure they are squared can take a lot of time. It's the same with unfurling and folding up NASA's massive James Webb Space Telescope sunshield during testing. However, engineers found a way to make this process much faster by temporarily installing small pencil-sized rods that keep the silver-colored sunshield tidy during inspection and repair.
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 Amsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Aug 10, 2018 
After nearly twenty years, the record of the most distant radio galaxy ever discovered has been broken. A team led by PhD student Aayush Saxena (Leiden Observatory, the Netherlands) has found a radio galaxy from a time when the universe was only 7% of its current age, at a distance of 12 billion light-years.
The team used the Giant Meter-wave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in India to initially id ... more |
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