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The Plan To Destroy OPEC
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 27, 2007Venezuela's Hugo Chavez says he wants to send oil to $200 a barrel. Robert Zubrin has a plan to stop him. In his just released book, Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil, Zubrin, an American aerospace engineer known previously primarily for his inventive approach to Mars exploration, lays out the strategy. To say the book is remarkable, would be a severe unders ... more US astronauts walk in space to fix up lab 
Washington (AFP) Nov 24, 2007Astronauts at the International Space Station completed a seven-hour space walk hundreds of miles above Earth on Saturday, fixing up equipment to develop the orbiting laboratory, the US space agency NASA said. Two US astronauts, Peggy Whitson and Dan Tani, completed the spacewalk at 1654 GMT after moving and wiring up heavy hardware to a recently-installed module called Harmony, the National ... more Opportunity Peers Beneath Surface Of Bathtub Ring 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 26, 2007Opportunity remains parked at the rock layer known as "Smith" -- part of the "bathtub ring" of rock layers beneath the edge of "Victoria Crater - - at "Duck Bay," the alcove where the rover entered the crater. During a test of the wire brush on the rock abrasion tool in a new mode of operation developed to work around recent encoder failures, Opportunity was mistakenly commanded to rotate the br ... more Mars Doubles In Brightness 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 26, 2007During the past month, Mars has doubled in brightness and it is putting on a nice show for backyard stargazers. "Mars is starting to look really nice through my 10-inch telescope," reports amateur astronomer Friedrich Deters of LaGrange, North Carolina, who took the picture at right on Nov. 17th. "Very nice!" agrees Dan Peterson of Racine, Wisconsin, who captured a similar snapshot the next nigh ... more Mars Express - 5000 Orbits And Counting 
Paris, France (ESA) Nov 26, 2007On 25 December 2003, Europe's first Mars explorer arrived at the Red Planet. Almost four years later, Mars Express continues to rewrite the text books as its instruments send back a stream of images and other data. Today, the spacecraft reached another milestone in its remarkable career by completing 5000 orbits of Mars. During its mission to investigate martian mysteries, the orbiter has ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Nov 19, 2007China is aiming to replace all its imported communications and broadcast satellites with home-made ones by 2010 as part of efforts to reduce its reliance on overseas technology, state media said Monday. The nation will step up research and development of these satellites as just one out of the 12 currently in use is Chinese-made, Sun Laiyan, chief of the China National Space Administration, ... more Mars Express Creates First Global Map Of Martian Ionosphere 
Paris, France (ESA) Nov 19, 2007With ESA's Mars Express, scientists continue to gain new insight into the mysterious Martian environment. Some of the most exciting results are being sent back by the MARSIS (Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding) experiment. MARSIS transmits low frequency radio waves towards the planet's surface and records the echoes of the different layers. Although Mars is sometim ... more Planets Forming In Pleiades Star Cluster 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 16, 2007Rocky terrestrial planets, perhaps like Earth, Mars or Venus, appear to be forming or to have recently formed around a star in the Pleiades ("seven sisters") star cluster, the result of "monster collisions" of planets or planetary embryos. Astronomers using the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii and the Spitzer Space Telescope report their findings in an upcoming issue of the Astrophysical Journal, th ... more Rover Finds Way To Brush Rock Surfaces Despite Setbacks 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 15, 2007Opportunity is still parked in front of the rock layer known as "Smith" inside Victoria Crater. The rover has now lost two encoders that operate motors on the rock abrasion tool during the grinding and brushing of surfaces. Science team members and engineers have been working in test beds and computer sequencing rooms to devise creative ways of using the rock abrasion tool without the grind and ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 12, 2007Despite the numerous technical and medical-biological problems it would face, a manned mission to Mars is being spoken about with more and more certainty. Yet it is unclear why we should take such great risks to land astronauts on the Red Planet. Nor do we know whether the huge costs of such an expedition would ever be recouped. Yury Semyonov, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences an ... more China to accept private funding for lunar missions 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 8, 2007China will accept private investment to help put a man and a rover on the moon, seeking outside funding for its expanding space ambitions, state media said Thursday. The funding opportunities will be open to "competent institutions and enterprises," the Shanghai Daily quoted a spokesman for the China National Space Administration as saying. "They could include scientific research organs, ... more NASA pressed to avert catastrophic Deep Impact 
Washington (AFP) Nov 8, 2007NASA penny-pinching risks exposing humankind to a planetary catastrophe if a big enough asteroid evades detection and slams into Earth, US lawmakers warned Thursday. But the US space agency said the chances of a new "Near-Earth Object" (NEO) like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs were too remote to divert scarce resources. Scott Pace, head of program analysis and evaluation at NASA, s ... more ISS astronauts prepare Harmony module for permanent docking 
Washington (AFP) Nov 9, 2007A US and Russian astronaut on the International Space Station on Friday went on a seven-hour spacewalk to prepare the recently delivered Harmony module for its permanent docking point on the ISS, NASA said. Commander Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer Yuri Malenchenko "spent Friday morning disconnecting and stowing cables, removing a light ... and taking a cover off the Harmony node's Common ... more
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