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Cassini Bags Enceladus 'Tigers'Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 16, 2010 NASA's Cassini spacecraft has successfully completed its flyby over the "tiger stripes" in the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus and has sent back images of its passage. The spacecraft also targeted the moon Tethys. The tiger stripes are actually giant fissures that spew jets of water vapor and organic particles hundreds of kilometers, or miles, out into space. While the winter is darkening the moon's southern hemisphere, Cassini has its own version of "night vision goggles ... read more |
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Knoxville TN (SPX) Jul 23, 2010Researchers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, are once again turning what scientists thought they knew about the moon on its head. Last fall, researchers, including Larry Taylor, a distinguished professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, discovered "lunar dew" on the moon's surface - absorbed "water" in the uppermost layers of lunar soil. This discovery of water ... more  
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 23, 2010While orbiting Saturn for the last six years, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has kept a close eye on the collisions and disturbances in the gas giant's rings. They provide the only nearby natural laboratory for scientists to see the processes that must have occurred in our early solar system, as planets and moons coalesced out of disks of debris. New images from Cassini show icy particles in Sa ... more  
Peterson AFB CO (SPX) Jul 23, 2010Twelve-year-old Emily Boyce knows exactly what she wants to do in life. "I want to be the first woman on the moon and the first person on Mars," she said. Emily was one of 54 middle school children who, for one week, joined the Federation of Galaxy Explorers at Jack Swigert Aerospace Academy, one of Peterson Air Force Base's feeder schools at 4220 E. Pikes Peak Ave. The children and their ... more |
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Science Team To Study Data From China's First Lunar ProbeBeijing, China (XNA) Jul 19, 2010 China's space agency has set up a committee of 123 leading scientists to consider how the country might apply the vast amount of data acquired by China's first lunar probe. The project had resulted in data about the distribution and content of important elements on the moon, such as uranium, thorium, potassium, aluminum, silicon, iron and titanium, said the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense Friday. China launched its first lunar probe Chang'e-1, na ... read more |
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