 Perfect sight: Rosetta cameras track asteroid target August 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- On 14 August, Rosetta conducted a successful trajectory correction manoeuvre using data obtained from the Agency's first-ever optical tracking of an asteroid target, (2867) Steins. Images ... | |
China's lunar satellite survives eclipse: state media August 18, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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China's first lunar satellite, which has been orbiting around the moon for nearly nine months, has withstood the test of a solar eclipse that cut its solar energy supply, state media reported Monday. | |
Phoenix Mars Lander Explores Site by Trenching August 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander scientists and engineers are continuing to dig into the area around the lander with the spacecraft's robotic arm, looking for new materials to analyze and examining the soil and ice subsurface structure. | |
 Cassini Pinpoints Source of Jets on Saturn's Moon Enceladus August 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 29 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a feat of interplanetary sharpshooting, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has pinpointed precisely where the icy jets erupt from the surface of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus. | |
 Phoenix Microscope Takes First Image of Martian Dust Particle August 14, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has taken the first-ever image of a single particle of Mars' ubiquitous dust, using its atomic force microscope. | |
 Martian soil may contain detrimental substance August 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 29 vote(s)
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Scientists are analyzing results from soil samples delivered several weeks ago to science instruments on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander to understand the landing site's soil chemistry and mineralogy. | |
MIT solves puzzle of meteorite-asteroid link: New analysis makes it possible to 'know our enemy' August 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For the last few years, astronomers have faced a puzzle: The vast majority of asteroids that come near the Earth are of a type that matches only a tiny fraction of the meteorites that most frequently hit ... | |
NASA delays robotic moon mission until 2009 August 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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(AP) -- NASA has delayed the launch of an unmanned spacecraft to the moon to scout for potential landing sites for astronauts. | |
 Ready the telescopes: partial lunar eclipse on Saturday August 13, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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People across the world will have the chance to see a partial eclipse of the Moon on Saturday. | |
 China's lunar satellite faces eclipse challenge August 15, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
China's first lunar satellite, which has been turning around the moon for nearly nine months, will be stripped of its solar energy supply Sunday when the earth eclipses the sun, state media said Friday. | |
NASA Engineers Complete Engine Test Series For Ares I Rocket August 19, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., have completed a series of tests on a key component of the J-2X engine. The J-2X powers the upper stage of the Ares I rocket, which will ... | |
 Phoenix Mars Lander Confirms Martian Water July 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 87 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Laboratory tests aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have identified water in a soil sample. The lander's robotic arm delivered the sample Wednesday to an instrument that identifies vapors produced ... | |
 Space Shuttle successor will not fly before 2014: NASA August 12, 2008 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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NASA announced it has pushed back the launch of the Orion, the spacecraft designed to replace the agency's aging space shuttle fleet, by one year to 2014. | |
NASA safety panel worries about moon ship design August 12, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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(AP) -- NASA is not properly emphasizing safety in its design of a new spaceship and its return-to-the-moon program faces money, morale and leadership problems, an agency safety panel found Monday. | |
 Cassini Begins Transmitting Data From Enceladus Flyby August 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Shortly after 9:03 p.m. Pacific Time, the Cassini spacecraft began sending data to Earth following a close flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus. During closest approach, Cassini successfully passed ... | |
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