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Into A Volcano To Test Suitcase-Sized Science LabBaltimore MD (SPX) Feb 25, 2010 Some scientists will go anywhere for a proper test, including the mouth of a (sleeping) Hawaiian volcano. Dr. Inge Ten Kate, a University of Maryland Baltimore County research assistant, led an expedition into a cinder cone atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii, to test the prototype for an instrument that will be a miniature laboratory to discover the composition of rocks and atmospheres on moons, asteroids, and planets across the solar system. The instrument is being built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) Jan 29, 2010President Barack Obama's 2011 budget, to be submitted to Congress Monday, will propose abandoning a program to return US astronauts to the Moon, two Florida newspapers said Thursday. Citing administration and NASA officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity, the reports said the White House would call on the US space agency to focus on other programs, including the development of comme ... more  
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2010The recent discovery of lakes on Saturn's moon Titan make it the only other object in the solar system known to have liquid on its surface. However, dipping 179 degrees C (290 degrees F) below freezing, these lakes are definitely not filled with water. "The water is frozen so solid on Titan that you can liken it to silicate rocks on Earth," says Vincent Chevrier of the University of Arkans ... more 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Jan 29, 2010Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) chief K. Radhakrishnan on Wednesday said the configuration for the new moon mission 'Chandrayaan-2' is being finalized and added that it would be launched by 2013. Chandrayaan-2, which will be a joint effort between ISRO and Russia, will consist of a lander and a rover for a soft land on moon. The rover will move on the surface of the moon an ... more |
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ISRO Has Received 'Several' Payload Proposals For Chandrayaan-IIBangalore, India (PTI) Jan 28, 2010 Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) would finalise in a couple of months the payloads from the international community to be carried on Chandrayaan-II moon mission, the space agency's chairman K Radhakrishnan has said. "Yes, we have and in a couple of months we would finalise it. There are several of them (proposals received from different countries)," he told reporters here. The Chandrayaan II mission would have an orbiter which would carry a lander and rover, the ISRO chief said on the si ... read more |
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