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Saturn Does the Wave in Its Atmosphere

May 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 10 vote(s) | No comments yet

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.


GIOVE-B transmitting its first signals

May 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 14 vote(s) | User comments: 1

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 ...


Solar Variability: Striking a Balance with Climate Change

23 hours ago | User rating: 3 / 5 after 24 vote(s) | User comments: 2

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 ...


A Super Solar Flare

May 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 12 vote(s) | User comments: 4

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. ...


1968 Science Fiction is Today’s Reality

May 08, 2008 | User rating: 2.9 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | No comments yet

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 ...


Space Shuttle Discovery Arrives at Launch Pad, Countdown Test Set

May 05, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

After safely reaching its launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, space shuttle Discovery now awaits its next major milestone for the upcoming STS-124 mission. A launch dress rehearsal, known as the terminal ...


Rocky Mesas of Nilosyrtis Mensae, Mars

May 06, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 7 vote(s) | No comments yet

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).


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 ...


Planets by the Dozen

5 hours ago | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | No comments yet

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 ...


Canada blocks sale of top space company to US firm: minister

6 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 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.


NASA Successfully Completes First Series of Ares Engine Tests

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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 ...


Phoenix Flying True Enough to Skip One Scheduled Adjustment

2 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

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 ...