 Key advance toward 'micro-spacecraft' August 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Fleets of inexpensive, pint-sized spacecraft are one giant leap closer to lift off. Researchers here at the 236th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society describe a new, razor thin temperature-regulating ... | |
 Jupiter and Saturn full of liquid metal helium August 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 42 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A strange, metal brew lies buried deep within Jupiter and Saturn, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and in London. | |
 Mars Rover Opportunity Climbing out of Victoria Crater August 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Exploration rover Opportunity is heading back out to the Red Planet's surrounding plains nearly a year after descending into a large Martian crater to examine exposed ancient rock ... | |
 Cassini instrument confirms liquid surface lake on Titan July 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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Scientists have confirmed that at least one body in our solar system, other than Earth, has a surface liquid lake. Using an instrument on NASA's Cassini orbiter, they discovered that a lake-like feature in ... | |
 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 ... | |
 August brings the Perseid meteors and a cluster of planets August 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The annual Perseid meteor shower will peak before dawn on Aug. 12. This year the Perseids will be competing with the nearly full moon at first, but after the moon sets there will be many bright ... | |
 A Brief History of Solar Sails August 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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sō’lar sāil, n. - A gossamer material that, when unfurled in the vacuum of space, feels the pressure of sunlight and propelled by said pressure may carry a ship among the stars. | |
 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 ... | |
 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 ... | |
 Mars Express acquires sharpest images of martian moon Phobos July 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Mars Express closed in on the intriguing martian moon Phobos at 6:49 CEST on 23 July, flying past at 3 km/s, only 93 km from the moon. The ESA spacecraft’s fly-bys of the moon have returned ... | |
US-Russia chill threatens NASA space program August 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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The chill left on US-Russian relations by Moscow's military incursion into Georgia could spell problems for future US access to the International Space Station, US experts said. | |
 Virgin Galactic unveils space tourism craft 'WhiteKnightTwo' (Update 2) July 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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British tycoon Richard Branson on Monday unveiled a futuristic aircraft that will ferry tourists to the edge of the heavens as part of Virgin Galactic's much-anticipated space program. | |
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 ... | |
 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. | |
 Rosetta starts tracking asteroid Steins August 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Heading toward its first target-asteroid, (2867) Steins, ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has started using its cameras to visually track the asteroid and eventually determine its orbit with more ... | |
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