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Surprise Hidden In Titan's Smog: Cirrus-Like CloudsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 04, 2011 Every day is a bad-air day on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Blanketed by haze far worse than any smog belched out in Los Angeles, Beijing or even Sherlock Holmes's London, the moon looks like a dirty orange ball. Described once as crude oil without the sulfur, the haze is made of tiny droplets of hydrocarbons with other, more noxious chemicals mixed in. Gunk. Icky as it may sound, Titan is really the rarest of gems: the only moon in our solar system with an atmosphere worthy of a planet. This atmo ... read more |
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  NASA's New Lander Prototype Skates Through Integration And Testing NASA engineers successfully integrated and completed system testing on a new robotic lander recently at Teledyne Brown Engineering's facility in Huntsville in support of the Robotic Lunar Lander Pro ... more | .. |
 A Fizzy Ocean On Enceladus For years researchers have been debating whether Enceladus, a tiny moon floating just outside Saturn's rings, is home to a vast underground ocean. Is it wet--or not? Now, new evidence is tipping the ... more | .. |
  Looking Back At Uranus As NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made the only close approach to date of our mysterious seventh planet Uranus 25 years ago, Project Scientist Ed Stone and the Voyager team gathered at NASA's Jet Propu ... more | .. |
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 Draper Commits One Million Dollars To Next Giant Leap's Moon Lander Next Giant Leap (NGL) announced that Draper Laboratory has committed over $1 million from their internal research and development (IR and D) program to fund the design and development of a guidance, ... more | .. |
  The Southern Hemisphere Of Phobos, Up Close During the last of a series of eight encounters with the martian moon Phobos, the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on ESA's Mars Express spacecraft acquired a detailed view of the martian satell ... more | .. |
 Cassini To Probe Rhea For Clues To Saturn Rings Saturn's icy moon Rhea might seem a strange place to look for clues to understanding the vast majestic rings encircling Saturn. But that's what NASA's Cassini spacecraft plans to do on its next flyb ... more | .. |
 Lunar water may have come from comets - scientists Water on the Moon came in large part from comets which bombarded the lunar surface in its infancy, a study published on Sunday suggests. ... more |
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'Greenland moment': Macron urges Europe to invest in strategic sectors
Iran top spy visits Oman after US talks; Mass arrests top 50,000
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 Moon Has Earth-Like Core State-of-the-art seismological techniques applied to Apollo-era data suggest our moon has a core similar to Earth's. Uncovering details about the lunar core is critical for developing accurate ... more | .. |
  ISRO Official Says Swarms Of Satellites Possible Swarms of satellites in the sky and even an individual owning one is possible today - thanks to the emergence of small satellites targeted at performing specific activities, a top official of the In ... more | .. |
 Rocket City Space Pioneers Announce Partnership With Solidworks The Rocket City Space Pioneers - a partnership of Huntsville businesses, educational institutions and non-profit organizations - have announced that Dassault Systemes SolidWorks has partnered with t ... more | .. |
 The Hunt For The Lunar Core The Moon, Earth's closest neighbor, has long been studied to help us better understand our own planet. Of particular interest is the lunar interior, which could hold clues to its ancient origins. ... more |
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 New Images Indicate Tectonic Activity On Rhea Newly released images of Saturn's second largest moon Rhea obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show dramatic views of fractures cutting through craters on the moon's surface, revealing a history o ... more | .. |
 NASA Tests New Propulsion System For Robotic Lander Prototype NASA's Robotic Lunar Lander Development Project at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has completed a series of hot fire tests and taken delivery of a new propulsion system for integr ... more | .. |
 Dynetics Awarded Contract To Provide Candidate Flight Hardware Dynetics, corporate team leader for the Rocket City Space Pioneers (RCSP), the Huntsville-based Google Lunar X PRIZE team, is one of only three organizations selected to supply flight component test ... more | .. |
  Four Solar, Two Moon Eclipses To Take Place In 2011 Earthlings will have a chance to observe four solar and two total moon eclipses in 2011. The first solar eclipse will take place on January 4. It will begin at 06:40 GMT and will be visible fr ... more |
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No fences needed: GPS collars show 'virtual fencing' is next frontier of livestock grazing
Pakistan's capital picks concrete over trees, angering residents
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 Mars Movie - I'm Dreaming Of A Blue Sunset A new Mars movie clip gives us a rover's-eye view of a bluish Martian sunset, while another clip shows the silhouette of the moon Phobos passing in front of the sun. America's Mars Exploration ... more | .. |
Cassini Marks Holidays With Dramatic Views Of Rhea Newly released for the holidays, images of Saturn's second largest moon Rhea obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show dramatic views of fractures cutting through craters on the moon's surface, rev ... more | .. |
 NASA's LRO Creating Unprecedented Topographic Map Of Moon NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is allowing researchers to create the most precise and complete map to date of the moon's complex, heavily cratered landscape. "This dataset is being used t ... more | .. |
 Apollo 8: Christmas At The Moon Christmas Eve, 1968. As one of the most turbulent, tragic years in American history drew to a close, millions around the world were watching and listening as the Apollo 8 astronauts - Frank Borman, ... more |
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 NASA Awards First Half-Million Order In Lunar Data Contract NASA has awarded the initial half-million-dollar task order from a $10 million NASA contract to Astrobotic Technology for a robotic expedition to the Moon. "The amazingly short turnaround betw ... more | .. |
  C-17 Fleet Surpasses 2 Million Flight Hours The worldwide fleet of C-17 Globemaster III airlifters built by Boeing surpassed 2 million flying hours during an airdrop mission over Afghanistan on Dec. 10. Reaching 2 million flight hours equates ... more | .. |
 Total Lunar Eclipse: 'Up All Night' With NASA The December holiday sky show doesn't stop with the Geminid meteor shower - this year, the moon is also bringing a holiday gift. In the very early morning of December 21, or late night of December 2 ... more | .. |
 A Busy Day On The Celestial Calendar With frigid temperatures already blanketing much of the United States, the arrival of the winter solstice on December 21 may not be an occasion many people feel like celebrating. But a dazzling tota ... more |
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Engineered interface lifts perovskite solar cells toward market readiness
Flexible electronics reshape intelligent robot design
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 Solstice Lunar Eclipse Everyone knows that "the moon on the breast of new-fallen snow gives the luster of mid-day to objects below." That is, except during a lunar eclipse. The luster will be a bit "off" on Dec. 21 ... more | .. |
 Cassini Spots Potential Ice Volcano On Saturn Moon NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found possible ice volcanoes on Saturn's moon Titan that are similar in shape to those on Earth that spew molten rock. Topography and surface composition data hav ... more | .. |
  IBEX Makes First-Ever Images Of Magnetotail Structures Invisible to the naked eye, yet massive in structure around the Earth is the magnetosphere, the region of space around the planet that ebbs and flows in response to the million-mile-per-hour flow of ... more | .. |
 How Iapetus Got Its Ridge For centuries, people wondered how the leopard got its spots. The consensus is pretty solid that evolution played a major role. But it's only been five years since the arrival of high-resoluti ... more |
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  NASA Scientists Theorize Final Growth Spurt For Planets A team of NASA-funded researchers has unveiled a new theory that contends planets gained the final portions of their mass from a limited number of large comet or asteroid impacts more than 4.5 billi ... more | .. |
  DLR And NASA Conclude Bilateral Framework Agreement The German Aerospace Center and NASA concluded a framework agreement for bilateral cooperation in Washington D.C. on 8 December 2010. The agreement was signed by NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden ... more | .. | .. |
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