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  Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 25, 2020 On 26 November 2018, the NASA InSight lander successfully set down on Mars in the Elysium Planitia region. Seventy Martian days later, the mission's seismometer SEIS began recording the planet's vibrations. A team of researchers and engineers at ETH Zurich, led by ETH Professor Domenico Giardini, had delivered the SEIS control electronics and is responsible for the Marsquake Service. The latter is in charge for the daily interpretation of the data transmitted from Mars, in collaboration with the Swiss S ... read more |
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Magnetic field at Martian surface ten times stronger than expectedVancouver, Canada (SPX) Feb 25, 2020 New data gleaned from the magnetic sensor aboard NASA's InSight spacecraft is offering an unprecedented close-up of magnetic fields on Mars. In a study published in Nature Geoscience, scientis ... more  
Want to catch a photon? Start by silencing the sunHoboken NJ (SPX) Feb 25, 2020 Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have created a 3D imaging system that uses light's quantum properties to create images 40,000 times crisper than current technologies, paving the way f ... more  
Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician, dies at 101Washington (AFP) Feb 24, 2020 Katherine Johnson, a ground-breaking black NASA mathematician whose life was portrayed in the movie "Hidden Figures," died on Monday aged 101, the space agency said. ... more 
A Year of Surprising Science From NASA's InSight Mars MissionPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 25, 2020 A new understanding of Mars is beginning to emerge, thanks to the first year of NASA's InSight lander mission. Findings described in a set of six papers published this week reveal a planet alive wit ... more |
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NASA prepares for new science flights above coastal LouisianaPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 21, 2020 Delta-X, a new NASA airborne investigation, is preparing to embark on its first field campaign in the Mississippi River Delta in coastal Louisiana. Beginning in April, the Delta-X science team, led ... more  
Seeding oceans with iron may not impact climate changeBoston MA (SPX) Feb 24, 2020 Historically, the oceans have done much of the planet's heavy lifting when it comes to sequestering carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Microscopic organisms known collectively as phytoplankton, whi ... more  
How earthquakes deform gravityPotsdam, Germany (SPX) Feb 24, 2020 Lightning - one, two, three - and thunder. For centuries, people have estimated the distance of a thunderstorm from the time between lightning and thunder. The greater the time gap between the two s ... more  
Huge stores of Arctic sea ice likely contributed to past climate coolingAmherst MA (SPX) Feb 24, 2020 In a new paper, climate scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution propose that massive amounts of melting sea ice in the Arctic drained into the ... more 
Jet stream not getting 'wavier' despite Arctic warmingExeter UK (SPX) Feb 24, 2020 Rapid Arctic warming has not led to a "wavier" jet stream around the mid-latitudes in recent decades, pioneering new research has shown. Scientists from the University of Exeter have studied t ... more |
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What if we could teach photons to behave like electronsStanford CA (SPX) Feb 24, 2020 To develop futuristic technologies like quantum computers, scientists will need to find ways to control photons, the basic particles of light, just as precisely as they can already control electrons ... more  |
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Otago physicists grab individual atoms in ground-breaking experimentDunedin, New Zealand (SPX) Feb 24, 2020 In a first for quantum physics, University of Otago researchers have "held" individual atoms in place and observed previously unseen complex atomic interactions. A myriad of equipment includin ... more 
Mars InSight Lander to push on top of the 'Mole'Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 24, 2020 After nearly a year of trying to dig into the Martian surface, the heat probe belonging to NASA's InSight lander is about to get a push. The mission team plans to command the scoop on InSight's robo ... more  
NASA wants your help designing a Venus rover conceptPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 24, 2020 NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, under a grant from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program, is running a public challenge to develop an obstacle avoidance sensor for ... more 
NASA selects proposals for student aeronautics, space projectsWashington DC (SPX) Feb 24, 2020 NASA has awarded more than $39.8 million through the agency's National Space Grant College and Fellowship Project to increase student and faculty engagement in STEM at community colleges, technical ... more  
Navy installs ODIN laser weapon system to counter aerial dronesWashington DC (UPI) Feb 20, 2020 The U.S. Navy announced Thursday that it has installed a laser weapon system that allows ships to counter aerial drones. ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 24, 2020 
Katherine Johnson, a ground-breaking black NASA mathematician whose life was portrayed in the movie "Hidden Figures," died on Monday aged 101, the space agency said.
Johnson's calculations helped put the first man on the Moon in 1969, but she was little known until the Oscar-nominated 2016 movie that told the stories of three black women who worked at NASA.
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 Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Feb 21, 2020 
The Air Force Research Laboratory, NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate, and Masten Space Systems Inc. successfully tested a liquid methane rocket engine, the first of its kind tested at AFRL.
AFRL and Masten signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement in December 2018. The agreement enabled Masten to test the Broadsword 25K engine at AFRL's rocket testing facility at Ed ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 24, 2020 
After nearly a year of trying to dig into the Martian surface, the heat probe belonging to NASA's InSight lander is about to get a push. The mission team plans to command the scoop on InSight's robotic arm to press down on the "mole," the mini pile driver designed to hammer itself as much as 16 feet (5 meters) down. They hope that pushing down on the mole's top, also called the back cap, will ke ... more |
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 Nanjing (XNA) Feb 21, 2020 
China's spacecraft tracking ship Yuanwang-5 is sailing to the Pacific Ocean from a port in east China's Jiangsu Province Thursday for a maritime space monitoring mission.
It is the first voyage of the ship this year.
Before the end of the Spring Festival, the mission members were gathered and quarantined on the ship to prevent the novel coronavirus infection. They completed the prepa ... more |
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 Luxembourg (SPX) Feb 19, 2020 
Kleos Space S.A, a space-powered Radio Frequency Reconnaissance data-as-a-service (DaaS) company, headquartered in Luxembourg, secured a euro 3.1 million loan agreement with Dubai-based family office Winance to progress its commercialisation plans and repay the extant convertible note. Winance will further provide optional euro 6.0 million through a convertible note agreement, subject to final ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Feb 20, 2020 
Exotrail, a French company dedicated to providing innovative on-orbit transportation solutions for the small satellite market have signed a contract with AAC Clyde Space, Europe's leading nanosatellite solutions specialist.
Exotrail will equip them with cutting-edge propulsion solutions for their customers, including global satellite telecommunications leader Eutelsat for its ELO 3 and ELO ... more |
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 University Park PA (SPX) Feb 21, 2020 
A signal originally detected by the Kepler spacecraft has been validated as an exoplanet using the Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF), an astronomical spectrograph built by a Penn State team and recently installed on the 10m Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory in Texas.
The HPF provides the highest precision measurements to date of infrared signals from nearby low-mass stars, an ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 19, 2020 
NASA's Juno mission has provided its first science results on the amount of water in Jupiter's atmosphere. Published recently in the journal Nature Astronomy, the Juno results estimate that at the equator, water makes up about 0.25% of the molecules in Jupiter's atmosphere - almost three times that of the Sun. These are also the first findings on the gas giant's abundance of water since the agen ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Feb 24, 2020 
Historically, the oceans have done much of the planet's heavy lifting when it comes to sequestering carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Microscopic organisms known collectively as phytoplankton, which grow throughout the sunlit surface oceans and absorb carbon dioxide through photosynthesis, are a key player.
To help stem escalating carbon dioxide emissions produced by the burning of fossi ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 17, 2020 
Four satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) have recently passed tests in orbit and started operation in the network, according to China's Satellite Navigation System Management Office.
The four satellites include the 41st, 49th, 50th and 51st satellites of the BDS family.
The 41st BDS satellite, launched on Nov. 1, 2018, is operating in geostationary orbit, and t ... more |
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 Hampton VA (SPX) Feb 21, 2020 
Vice President Mike Pence, chair of the National Space Council, and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine got a glimpse Wednesday into how NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia is at the forefront of space exploration and has been vital to missions from Apollo to Artemis.
"It's an honor to be among men and women who will play a decisive role when in four years' time we return Am ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Feb 20, 2020 
On April 13, 2029, an icy chunk of space rock, wider than the Eiffel Tower is tall, will streak by Earth at 30 kilometers per second, grazing the planet's sphere of geostationary satellites. It will be the closest approach by one of the largest asteroids crossing Earth's orbit in the next decade.
Observations of the asteroid, known as 99942 Apophis, for the Egyptian god of chaos, once sugg ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Feb 19, 2020 
A stratospheric sudden warming is perhaps one of the most radical changes of weather that is observed on our planet. As numerical weather prediction models have improved, including better representation of the stratosphere, an extensive amount of studies have been investigating forecasts for major stratospheric sudden warmings (MSSWs), which affect all layers of the atmosphere, changing wind cir ... more |
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 Hoboken NJ (SPX) Feb 25, 2020 
Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have created a 3D imaging system that uses light's quantum properties to create images 40,000 times crisper than current technologies, paving the way for never-before seen LIDAR sensing and detection in self-driving cars, satellite mapping systems, deep-space communications and medical imaging of the human retina.
The work, led by Yuping Huang ... more |
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 Charlottesville VA (SPX) Feb 21, 2020 
An international team of astronomers used two of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world to create more than three hundred images of planet-forming disks around very young stars in the Orion Clouds. These images reveal new details about the birthplaces of planets and the earliest stages of star formation.
Most of the stars in the universe are accompanied by planets. These planets a ... more |
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 Dunedin, New Zealand (SPX) Feb 24, 2020 
In a first for quantum physics, University of Otago researchers have "held" individual atoms in place and observed previously unseen complex atomic interactions.
A myriad of equipment including lasers, mirrors, a vacuum chamber, and microscopes assembled in Otago's Department of Physics, plus a lot of time, energy, and expertise, have provided the ingredients to investigate this quantum pr ... more |
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