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Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 14, 2008As fall approaches Mars' northern plains, NASA's Phoenix Lander continues to dig into the red planet's soil and deliver samples to its onboard science instruments for analysis. Over the past two weeks, Phoenix's nearly 2.4-meter-long (8 foot) arm moved a rock named "Headless" about 0.4 meters (16 inches) and snapped an image of the rock with its camera. Then the robotic arm scraped the ... more India Not Engaged In Space Race With China 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Oct 13, 2008As India prepares for its first unmanned mission to the Moon next week, ISRO chief Madhavan Nair has said that New Delhi is not engaged in a space race with Beijing, stating that the priorities of the two countries are different and there is no competition. Chandrayaan-1, the country's first unmanned lunar venture, is slated for launch on October 22 and India has proposed Mars mission in ... more NASA Supercomputer Shows How Dust Rings Point To Exo-Earths 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 13, 2008Supercomputer simulations of dusty disks around sunlike stars show that planets nearly as small as Mars can create patterns that future telescopes may be able to detect. The research points to a new avenue in the search for habitable planets. "It may be a while before we can directly image earthlike planets around other stars but, before then, we'll be able to detect the ornate and ... more What Will Flight To Mars Reveal 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 13, 2008Deep space exploration is becoming an ever bigger part of national space programs. Currently, missions to the Moon and Mars are considered feasible. The U.S. has announced preparation for another space probe launch to collect data from the Martian atmosphere, scheduled for 2013. In Russia, Martian exploration is confined to ground tests so far. The project Mars-500, aimed at determining ... more Smaller And More Recent Features On Mars Can Now Be Dated 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 13, 2008The crater-counting system that scientists have used since the 1970s to determine the age of large geologic features on Mars will also allow them to date small features, such as riverbeds and lava flows, according to William K. Hartmann, a senior scientist at the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute. Hartmann, who works out of PSI's Tucson office, presented the results of his study at ... more |
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Pasadena CA Oct 04, 2008Opportunity has embarked on the next great challenge -- a journey of 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) southeast to a huge hole in the ground nicknamed "Endeavour Crater." Measuring 22 kilometers (14 miles) from rim to rim and plunging 300 meters (1,000 feet) below the surface, Endeavour Crater is significantly larger than "Victoria Crater," which is 730 meters (almost half a mile) wide and 70 meters (2 ... more Nicaraguan Volcano Provides Insight Into Early Mars 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 01, 2008Volcanic eruptions were commonplace on ancient Mars, when vents and fissures spewed out gases like water vapor, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide. Such locales were very hot and very acidic - characteristics that would seem to be inhospitable to life. But in recent years researchers have discovered a vast array of primitive organisms living in analogous environments on Earth. ... more Mars Lander Sees Falling Snow, Soil Data Suggest Liquid Past 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 30, 2008NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has detected snow falling from Martian clouds. Spacecraft soil experiments also have provided evidence of past interaction between minerals and liquid water, processes that occur on Earth. A laser instrument designed to gather knowledge of how the atmosphere and surface interact on Mars has detected snow from clouds about 4 kilometers (2. 5 miles) above the ... more The Ancient Rains Of Mars 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Sep 29, 2008About four billion years ago, there were lakes on Mars which may have been fed by short-lived rivers that were, in turn, fed by precipitation. These lakes filled craters that were formed by the impact of meteorites. Water accumulated in places where rivers broke through the crater rims. Deltas were formed at the mouths of the rivers, similar to how they are formed where rivers flow into ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Sept 25, 2008Milestones in the history of manned space flight: -- 1st century AD: A simple explosive substance appears in China. To create a festive effect, containers filled with it are believed to have been thrown onto fires, whereupon they sometimes flew up into the air. -- 1232: The first documented use of "fire-sticks" as weapons -- by Chinese forces repelling a Mongol invasion. ... more Space key to mankind's survival: NASA chief 
Washington (AFP) Sept 25, 2008Mankind's very survival depends on the future exploration of space, said NASA chief Michael Griffin in an interview with AFP marking the 50th anniversary of the US space agency. This journey, said the veteran physicist and aerospace engineer, is full of unknowns and has only just begun. "Does the survival of human kind depend upon it? I think so," he said. Griffin compared the first ... more Meteorite experiment deals blow to 'bugs from space' theory 
Paris (AFP) Sept 25, 2008A novel experiment has dealt a setback to a theory that life on Earth was kickstarted by bacteria that hitched a ride on space rocks. The "pan-spermia" hypothesis is that cells were transported to the infant Earth on rocks that were bumped off other planets or even came from another star system. The theory gained a boost in 1996 when a group of US scientists proposed that a famous meteor ... more NASA marks 50th birthday, looks to new frontiers 
Washington (AFP) Sept 25, 2008Half a century after NASA was created at the height of the Cold War when the United States sought to prove its superiority by winning the race to the Moon, the space agency faces new challenges ahead. At its conception NASA sought to assert American dominance over the Soviet Union, but in the new 21st century it finds an emerging rival in the space race: China. The birth of the National ... more
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