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Dual Drill Designed For Europa Ice MissionMoffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 16, 2010 A mole-like thermal drill designed to cut through the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa could be on a future mission slated for launch in 2020. Such a device would represent the best of both worlds by using heat to melt through the ice and rotating drill blades to clear away rocky material. The drill would be nestled inside a larger penetrator probe that would burrow itself into Europa's icy shell. "Penetrators are the most feasible, cheapest and safest option for a landing on Europa today, and ... read more |
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Cologne, Germany (SPX) Mar 29, 2010It takes some imagination - the new exhibit on display at the 'Out of this World - Wonders of the Solar System' exhibition at the Gasometer Oberhausen, does not look very spectacular at first glance. Lent to the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) by NASA, it is grey in colour, small - weighing just 92.5 grams - and encased in a Plexiglas casting. But t ... more  
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 19, 2010New discoveries have a way of messing with old definitions. Take, for example, the concept of a habitable world. The standard definition of a "habitable world" is a world with liquid water at its surface; the "habitable zone" around a star is defined as that Goldilocks region - not too hot, not too cold - where a watery planet or moon can exist. And then there's Titan. Saturn's giant ... more 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 19, 2010Moonwater. Look it up. You won't find it. It's not in the dictionary. That's because we thought, until recently, that the Moon was just about the driest place in the solar system. Then reports of moonwater started "pouring" in - starting with estimates of scant amounts on the lunar surface, then gallons in a single crater, and now 600 million metric tons distributed among 40 craters near the lun ... more |
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News From StardustFrankfurt, Germany (SPX) Mar 17, 2010 As reported in last week's Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, two most promising candidates for stardust have been identified. They were collected during NASA�s Stardust mission that probed the interstellar stream during 15 months. Since 2006 not only scientists but also amateurs worldwide are scanning samples for the proverbial needle in the haystack: dust particles from others parts of our galaxy that were carried to our solar system via the interstellar stream. Several ton ... read more |
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