 Planets by the Dozen May 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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You know the planets of our solar system, each a unique world with its own distinctive appearance, size, and chemistry. Mars, with its bitter-cold, rusty red sands; Venus, a fiery world shrouded in thick clouds ... | |
 Phoenix Flying True Enough to Skip One Scheduled Adjustment May 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander continues on course for its May 25 arrival at Mars. After targeting its certified landing site with a trajectory, or flight path, correction maneuver on April 10, the spacecraft's ... | |
Canada blocks sale of top space company to US firm: minister May 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Canada's industry minister confirmed Friday he is blocking the sale of leading space firm MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates to a US defense contractor, saying it provided no net benefit to Canada. | |
 Solar Variability: Striking a Balance with Climate Change May 08, 2008 | User rating: 3.1 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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The sun has powered almost everything on Earth since life began, including its climate. The sun also delivers an annual and seasonal impact, changing the character of each hemisphere as Earth's orientation ... | |
Exhaling for Exploration: Scientists Test Lunar Breathing System May 08, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Exhaling for Exploration: Scientists Test Lunar Breathing System HOUSTON -- Imagine yourself hip-to-hip, shoulder-to-shoulder, inside a room the size of a walk-in closet for eight hours with five people you just met. Does ... | |
 Saturn Does the Wave in Its Atmosphere May 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Two decades of scrutinizing Saturn are finally paying off, as scientists have discovered a wave pattern, or oscillation, in Saturn's atmosphere only visible from Earth every 15 years. | |
 A Super Solar Flare May 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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At 11:18 AM on the cloudless morning of Thursday, September 1, 1859, 33-year-old Richard Carrington—widely acknowledged to be one of England's foremost solar astronomers—was in his well-appointed private observatory. ... | |
NASA Successfully Completes First Series of Ares Engine Tests May 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
NASA engineers Thursday successfully completed the first series of tests in the early development of the J-2X engine that will power the upper stages of the Ares I and Ares V rockets, key components of NASA's Constellation ... | |
 GIOVE-B transmitting its first signals May 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Following a successful launch on 27 April, GIOVE-B began transmitting navigation signals today. This is a truly historic step for satellite navigation since GIOVE-B is now, for the first time, transmitting ... | |
 1968 Science Fiction is Today’s Reality May 08, 2008 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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The futuristic epic 2001: A Space Odyssey influenced many to fall in love with the limitless possibilities of space exploration. The movie sparked imaginations and provided a realistic preview of what our ... | |
 Cyclone Nargis and Myanmar floods seen from space May 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Envisat captured Cyclone Nargis making its way across the Bay of Bengal just south of Myanmar on 1 May 2008. The cyclone hit the coastal region and ripped through the heart of Myanmar on Saturday, devastating ... | |
 German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA's asteroid figures: paper April 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 314 vote(s)
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A 13-year-old German schoolboy corrected NASA's estimates on the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth, a German newspaper reported Tuesday, after spotting the boffins had miscalculated. | |
 NASA calls on APL to send a probe to the sun May 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is sending a spacecraft closer to the sun than any probe has ever gone - and what it finds could revolutionize what we know about our star and the solar ... | |
 Rocky Mesas of Nilosyrtis Mensae, Mars May 06, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Mesas in the Nilosyrtis Mensae region of Mars appear in enhanced color in this image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). | |
NASA: Hubble mission delayed until fall for fuel tank work May 01, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- NASA's final visit to the Hubble Space Telescope has been delayed at least a month, until the fall, because of extra time needed to build the shuttle fuel tanks needed for the flight and a potential rescue mission. | |
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