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Picture-Perfect Pluto PracticeLaurel MD (SPX) Sep 06, 2010 Neptune's giant moon Triton is often called Pluto's "twin" - so what better practice target, then, for New Horizons' telescopic camera? New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) snapped several photos of Neptune during the latest annual systems checkout, which ended July 30. Neptune was 23.2 astronomical units (about 2.15 billion miles!) from New Horizons when LORRI took aim at the gas giant planet - and Triton made a cameo appearance in these images. "That we were able to see T ... read more |
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Fairfield CA (SPX) Aug 17, 2010After thousands of years of improving man's first survival skill, a new method to improve the hunt has hit the market. Hunters are going high-tech with a new program designed to improve their hunting skills by gathering, detailing, and retaining performance information about bagged game over entire seasons or years. An interesting new application tracks the information related to the hunt ... more  
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 17, 2010Instead of flying to Europa without first testing what a mission there might experience, now a number of sites on Earth - and beyond - that mimic the Jovian moon are being uncovered that could help explorers conduct trial runs. Missions to Mars such as the Mars Exploration Rovers were exhaustively field-tested in "Mars Yards" - areas whose terrain mimicked the red planet. In much the same ... more  
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 16, 2010NASA'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. Whil ... more |
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NASA Seeks Data From Innovative Lunar DemonstrationsWashington DC (SPX) Aug 09, 2010 NASA has issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) to purchase specific data resulting from industry efforts to test and verify vehicle capabilities through demonstrations of small robotic landers. The purpose is to inform the development of future human and robotic lander vehicles. The Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) BAA will result in multiple small firm-fixed price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts with a total value up to $30.1 million through 2012. Multiple aw ... read more |
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