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Mars through the eyes of spirit
http://www.space.com/12349-mars-eyes-spirit-montage.html
U.S. space shuttle spawned heart pump, fly by wire
July 20, 2011
As the United States prepares to end its space shuttle program, technologies developed to nurture the reusable spaceships through three decades of flight will live on in day-to-day use on Earth. Shuttle Atlantis and its four-member crew are due back at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 5:57 a.m. EDT on Thursday after a […]
Why Pluto is No Longer a Planet
July 20, 2011
Is Pluto a planet? Does it qualify? For an object to be a planet, it needs to meet these three requirements defined by the IAU: It needs to be in orbit around the Sun – Yes, so maybe Pluto is a planet. It needs to have enough gravity to pull itself into a spherical shape […]
NASA’s Hubble Discovers Another Moon Around Pluto
July 20, 2011
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The tiny, new satellite – temporarily designated P4 — was uncovered in a Hubble survey searching for rings around the dwarf planet. The new moon is the smallest discovered around Pluto. It has an estimated diameter of 8 to […]
NASA Releases New Pioneer Anomaly Analysis
July 20, 2011
The mysterious force acting on the Pioneer spacecraft seems to be falling exponentially. That’s a strong clue that on-board heat is to blame, says NASA In the early 1970s, NASA sent two spacecraft on a roller coaster ride towards the outer Solar System. Pioneer 10 and 11 travelled past Jupiter (and Saturn in Pioneer 11′s […]
Did Life on Earth Originally Spring from Clay as Some Creation Myths Say?
July 20, 2011
Not necessarily, but it does provide a possible mechanism for explaining how life initially arose from nonliving molecules. Szostak’s team at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital showed that the presence of clay aids naturally occurring reactions that result in the formation of fatty sacks called vesicles, similar to what scientists expect […]
Twisted Tale of our Galaxy’s Ring
July 20, 2011
New observations from the Herschel Space Observatory show a bizarre, twisted ring of dense gas at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Only a few portions of the ring, which stretches across more than 600 light-years, were known before. Herschel’s view reveals the entire ring for the first time, and a strange kink that […]
July 20, 2011
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