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 Washington (AFP) Oct 9, 2009 
The United States successfully blasted a rocket into the moon on Friday, slamming it into a crater near the lunar south pole in a bid to discover water, US space agency NASA said. No light flash was visible in the thermal images broadcast on NASA television, as the 2.3-tonne rocket impacted the Cabeus crater at 1131 GMT. A second shepherding spacecraft flew through the debris plume, coll ... read more 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 09, 2009The global ocean on Jupiter's moon Europa contains about twice the liquid water of all the Earth's oceans combined. New research suggests that there may be plenty of oxygen available in that ocean to support life, a hundred times more oxygen than previously estimated. The chances for life there have been uncertain, because Europa's ocean lies beneath several miles of ice, which separates ... 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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Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 09, 2009NASA and industry engineers conducted a design limit load test of the Ares I rocket's main parachute Oct. 8 at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground near Yuma, Ariz. The Ares I is the first rocket in NASA's Constellation Program which will launch explorers on journeys to the International Space Station, the moon and beyond. Engineers from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville ... more  
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2009The recent discovery of plumes containing water vapor erupting from the south pole of the frigid Saturnian moon Enceladus set off a firestorm of debate. Many scientists thought the geysers of gaseous water must boil out of liquid water stored under the moon's surface, which would make Enceladus a promising candidate for life. But a new study challenges ... more 
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 09, 2009A distinctive crater about 35 meters (115 feet) in diameter was formed when the Apollo 14 Saturn IVB (upper stage) was intentionally impacted into the moon. The energy of the impact created small tremors that were measured by the seismometer placed on the Moon by Apollo 12 astronauts in 1969. The interior of the crater has bright mounds, and a bright ejecta blanket surrounds the exterior ... more |
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Sunspot NM (SPX) Oct 06, 2009In the pre-dawn hours of Oct. 9, as many people in New Mexico are still asleep or barely stirring, a momentous event will be happening in outer space that could help define future space travel. That event is a rocket smashing into a permanently shadowed crater on the moon, and New Mexico State University astronomers have a front-row seat on all the action. NMSU is taking part in a ... more 
Houston TX (SPX) Oct 06, 2009New global color maps reveal provocative patterns on the surfaces of Saturn's five innermost large icy satellites: Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, and Rhea. These new maps are being presented in a report by Dr. Paul Schenk of Houston's Lunar and Planetary Institute at the AAS Division for Planetary Sciences meeting in Puerto Rico. The new maps reveal complex global color patterns on each ... more 
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 06, 2009The Team c-base Open Moon, a German group that includes physicians, businessmen, and engineers, has announced its official entry into the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a $30 million competition that challenges space professionals and engineers from across the globe to build and launch to the Moon a privately funded spacecraft capable of completing a series of exploration and transmission tasks as outlin ... more |
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