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NASA Announces Winners In Lunar Art Contest Hampton VA (SPX) Jun 09, 2009 ![]() New Tool To Visualize Past, Future Lunar Eclipses ![]() Lunar eclipses are well-documented throughout human history. The rare and breathtaking phenomena, which occur when the moon passes into the Earth's shadow and seemingly changes shape, color, or disappears from the night sky completely, caught the attention of poets, farmers, leaders, and scientists alike. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method for using ... more
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Vietnam says parched Red River at record low
China to be world's third biggest wind power producer: media Cost-cutting NASA eyes three cheap space missions Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Russia in secret plan to save Earth from asteroid: official Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax French carbon tax ruled illegal Brazil's Lula signs law cutting CO2 emissions 2009 a 'benign' year of natural disasters: German re-insurer Greenpeace Spain demands Denmark release its director ![]()
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Life Support Pilot Plant Paves The Way To Moon And Beyond![]() A pilot plant inaugurated in Barcelona, Spain, is testing regenerative life support system technologies that could one day recycle waste products and supply essential food, water and oxygen to humans living on the surface of the Moon or Mars. MELiSSA, short for Micro-Ecological Life Support System Alternative, is an artificial ecosystem to recover food, water and oxygen from ... more To The Moon, By Way Of MIT ![]() Many people consider the Apollo lunar landings one of the crowning achievements of human ingenuity. But not so many people realize that the epochal first steps by human beings on another world - which took place 40 years ago next month - likely would not have been possible without the technological experience and capabilities of MIT. In celebration of that singular accomplishment and MIT's ... more Cassini Finds Titan's Clouds Hang On To Summer ![]() Cloud chasers studying Saturn's moon Titan say its clouds form and move much like those on Earth, but in a much slower, more lingering fashion. Their forecast for Titan's early autumn - warm and wetter. Scientists with NASA's Cassini mission have monitored Titan's atmosphere for three-and-a-half years, between July 2004 and December 2007, and observed more than 200 clouds. They found ... more NASA's Shuttle Program Hands Over Launch Pad To Constellation ![]() The May 31 transfer of Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida from the Space Shuttle Program to the Constellation Program is the next step in preparing the first flight test of the agency's next-generation spacecraft and launch system. The Constellation Program is developing new spacecraft - including the Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles, the Orion crew capsule, and the ... more |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 15, 2025 Macquarie University has licensed a breakthrough silver extraction method to ASX-listed Lithium Universe under an exclusive global deal worth more than A$500,000 over 20 years, aiming to reshape how ... more ![]() ![]() Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 15, 2025 Australian researchers report that households can earn more by selling excess rooftop PV directly to nearby buyers through peer to peer energy sharing, striking prices between feed in tariffs and re ... more ![]() ![]() Berlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 08, 2025 In an era when renewable energy is reshaping electricity grids, solar photovoltaic (PV) power still faces a core challenge: the sun rarely delivers energy exactly when demand peaks. Aalborg Universi ... more ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Aug 15, 2025 A public-private partnership between Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory has led to ... more ![]() ![]() London, UK (SPX) Aug 13, 2025 An international research team led by University College London has developed durable perovskite-based solar cells that efficiently harvest energy from indoor light, opening the way for battery-free ... more ![]() ![]() Boston MA (SPX) Aug 06, 2025 Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have designed a novel transmitter chip that significantly improves the energy efficiency of wireless communications, which could boost the range and battery life o ... more |
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NASA Eyes Water In Moon Mission![]() NASA on Thursday said it was on target for a June mission to scour the Moon's surface for landing sites and water that would allow humans to work and even live on Earth's nearest neighbor. The space agency hopes to launch a dual craft in June, part of which would survey the Moon's surface from orbit while another unit ploughs into the lunar surface in search for water. "We had the or ... more NASA Details Plans For Lunar Exploration Robotic Missions ![]() NASA's return to the moon will get a boost in June with the launch of two satellites that will return a wealth of data about Earth's nearest neighbor. On Thursday, the agency outlined the upcoming missions of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS. The spacecraft will launch together June 17 aboard an Atlas V rocket from ... more Chandrayaan Orbit Raised To 200 Km From Moon ![]() The Indian space agency has raised the orbit of its first unmanned lunar spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 to 200km from the lunar surface for further studies on orbit perturbations and gravitational field variations of the Moon. 'With the successful completion of all the mission objectives from 100 km above the moon since November 2008, we have raised the height of the spacecraft to 200 km Tuesday ... more The Lunar Analog Study ![]() Unlike other Space Flight Simulation studies which mimic micro gravity by placing subjects in a bed with their heads inclined six degrees lower than their feet, The Lunar Analog study is a 9.5 degree head up study. Physics determines the 9.5 degrees incline - at this angle, the gravity force through the subject's legs along the long axis is 1/6th of the subject's body weight. The stu ... more |
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