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December 16, 2009
Images of Chi Cygni reveal Sol's fate
Cambridge MA (SPX) Dec 16, 2009
About 550 light-years from Earth, a star like our Sun is writhing in its death throes. Chi Cygni has swollen in size to become a red giant star so large that it would swallow every planet out to Mars in our solar system. Moreover, it has begun to pulse dramatically in and out, beating like a giant heart. New close-up photos of the surface of this distant star show its throbbing motions in unprecedented detail. "This work opens a window onto the fate of our Sun five billion years from now, when it will near ... read more

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Methane study favors life on Mars theory
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Trough Deposits On Mars Point To Complex Hydrologic Past
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Martian Moon Duo
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Opportunity Continues Investigation Of Marquette Island
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The Meandering Channels Of Mars
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 11, 2009
The surface of Mars is littered with channels that appear to be the work of ancient water flows. Indeed, some of these channels meander back and forth like slow-moving streams on our planet. Channels can be carved by lava, wind and glaciers, but these processes can't explain all the features on Mars. "We've gotten over the hump and can now agree that water flowed on the martian surface in ... more

Life On Mars Theory Boosted By New Methane Study
London, UK (SPX) Dec 09, 2009
Scientists have ruled out the possibility that methane is delivered to Mars by meteorites, raising fresh hopes that the gas might be generated by life on the red planet, in research published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Methane has a short lifetime of just a few hundred years on Mars because it is constantly being depleted by a chemical reaction in the planet's atmosphere ... more

Rear Wheel Trouble Continues For Mars Rover Spirit
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 11, 2009
Results of diagnostic tests on Spirit's right-rear wheel on Sol 2109 (Dec. 8, 2009) continue to indicate a troubled wheel, which may leave the rover with only four operable wheels. The Sol 2109 plan included a check of the grind motor of Spirit's rock abrasion tool (RAT) because it shares the same motor controller as the right-rear wheel. It also included rotor resistance tests on th ... more

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Mars Orbiter taken out of 'safe mode'


Spirit remains trapped in Martian sand


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Biosatellite To The Moon

Is There Life On The Moon

Views Of The World Under The Moon

NASA, Saudi Arabia partner on research

Cuts To Human Spaceflight Program Harms Aerospace Workforce, US Economy, And National Security

NASA announces moon design competition

The PI's Perspective - Farewell 2009

'Eyes' of Herschel Will Survey Trans-Neptunian Region

Astronomy Question Of The Week: Why Is Pluto No Longer A Planet

Galileo's Jupiter Journey Began Two Decades Ago

Europa's Ocean Contains Enough Oxygen To Support Life

Ganymede's Magnetosphere Makes Big Impression On Jupiter's Aurora

Venus may have been a water world, space congress told

Venus' Atmosphere Observed - SCIAMACHY On Envisat Looks Elsewhere

New Map Hints At Venus' Wet, Volcanic Past

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Opportunity Investigates 'Marquette' And 'Islington Bay'
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 08, 2009
Opportunity Status for sol 2076-2079: Opportunity has been investigating the rock known as "Marquette Island." On Sol 2076 (Nov. 25, 2009), the robotic arm (IDD) placed the Moessbauer (MB) spectrometer on a rock target called "Islington Bay" for a long, multi-sol integration. With the temporary loss of relay operations for a few sols because of the Odyssey spacecraft safe-mode, Opportunity ... more

Spirit's Diagnostic Wheel Tests Continue

Spirit Status for sol 2096-2099: Spirit's extrication from her embedded location at Troy on the west side of Home Plate has been complicated by a recurring stall condition with the right rear wheel. After diagnostic tests on Sol 2095 (Nov. 24, 2009), indicated a freely moving wheel, another two-step drive with 5 meters (16 feet) of wheel spin was commanded on Sol 2099 (Nov. 28, 2009). ... more

Astrosat All Set To Be Launched Next Year
Bangalore, India (PTI) Dec 07, 2009
India's first science satellite Astrosat is all set to be launched next year, former chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Madhavan Nair said. One more satellite 'Aditya' to study Sun's coronal mass ejection (CME) would be launched in two years while the science mission to planet Mars by 2013, Nair said, addressing a galaxy of scientists from India and abroad and the ... more

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Sandtrapped Rover Makes A Big Discovery


Mars Meteorite Debate Continues


Orbiter Puts Itself Into Safe Standby
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S.Leone unemployed get work in Iraq, Afghanistan: official

'Death of Kyoto would be death of Africa': AU

African frustration erupts at UN climate talks

Beijing vehicles to exceed four million: state media

Toyota aims to roll out plug-in Prius in two years

China's BAIC agrees to buy some Saab assets

Galaxy Collision Switches On Black Hole

PHARAO Atomic Clock Agreement Signed By ESA And CNES

Scientist Uncovers Relics Of Ancient Cosmos

Russia To Launch MIM1 Module To ISS Next Year

Russia Plans To Send 10 Spacecraft To ISS Next Year

SpaceX Begins NASA Astronaut Training For Dragon Spacecraft COTS Program

Shuttle Endeavour readied for a space trip

Space shuttle Atlantis lands back on Earth

Atlantis Ready For Landing Friday

ATK Successfully Ground Tests New Castor 30 Upper Stage Solid Rocket Motor

Virgin spaceship to take visitors into suborbital space

Steering The Ares Rockets On A Straight Path

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Opportunity Continues Study Of 'Marquette'

Gullies And Flow Features On Crater Wall

No Wheel Stall In Diagnostic Drive

Team Plans Uplink Of Protective Files To MRO

Mars valleys point to rainy red planet

Third Spirit Extrication Drive Ends With Wheel Stall

Distal Rampart Of Crater In Chryse Planitia

Spirit's Flash Memory In Use Again

Team Prepares To Uplink Commands To Spirit

NASA And Microsoft Allow Earthlings To Become Martians

Opportunity Approaching "Marquette Island"

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Taking A Bite Of Antarctic Ice

Can Spirit Be Freed

Dawn Enters Asteroid Belt - For Good

Professor To Predict Weather On Mars

Opportunity Motors South

A Mars Rover Named "Curiosity"

Amnesia-Like Behavior Returns On Spirit

Channels From Hale Crater

Martian Projects Shall Use Nuclear Energy

Russia Needs More Volunteers For Mars Flight Simulation

DLR Simulates Mars' Atmosphere In Gottingen

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