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Space Station Crew Enjoys Eye-Level View of Perseid Meteor ShowerHouston TX (SPX) Aug 24, 2011 With the bright moon that was out on the evening of August 13, many astronomy buffs were not able to fully appreciate the spectacular Perseid meteor shower going on in the night sky. From the International Space Station, however, astronaut Ron Garan had a front seat view as part of the Crew Earth Observations, or CEO, investigation. Using a Nikon D3S digital camera with a 22 mm lens, Garan captured a stunning photo of one of the Perseid meteors streaking through Earth's atmosphere. You can s ... read more |
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 Glorious Perseids The summer's best meteor shower peaked on the weekend of Aug. 12-13. Even though the Perseids were hampered by a bright, full moon they were something to behold! The Perseids have been observe ... more | .. |
  Man in the Moon Looking Younger Earth's Moon could be younger than previously thought, according to new research from a team that includes Carnegie's Richard Carlson and former-Carnegie fellow Maud Boyet. Their work will be publis ... more | .. |
 GRAIL Moon Twins are Joined to Their Booster NASA's lunar-bound GRAIL twins were mated to their Delta II launch vehicle at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 17 at 8:45 a.m. EDT (5:45 a.m. PDT) Thursday. The 15-mile (2 ... more | .. |
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  The PI's Perspective: Visiting Four Moons, in Just Four Years, for All Mankind New Horizons remains healthy and on course, now approximately 21 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is - well on its way, between the orbits of Uranus and Neptune. On July 1, we completed ... more | .. |
 Moon younger than previously thought Analysis of a piece of lunar rock brought back to Earth by the Apollo 16 mission in 1972 has shown that the Moon may be much younger than previously believed. This is concluded in new research ... more | .. |
 GRAIL Launch Less Than One Month Away NASA's twin lunar probes - GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B - completed their final inspections and were weighed one final time at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla., on Tuesday. T ... more | .. |
  Alien World is Blacker than Coal Astronomers have discovered the darkest known exoplanet - a distant, Jupiter-sized gas giant known as TrES-2b. Their measurements show that TrES-2b reflects less than one percent of the sunlight fal ... more |
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US says new nuclear deal should include China, accuses Beijing of secret tests
Nuclear powers scramble for high ground after arms treaty expires
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 The Lunar Farside And The Ancient Big Splat The mountainous region on the far side of the moon, known as the lunar farside highlands, may be the solid remains of a collision with a smaller companion moon, according to a new study by planetary ... more | .. |
  Toys for Tiangong Wanna buy a spaceship? No, you can't have the real thing. But you can buy a model at a reasonable price. That's been the driving force behind a strongly entrenched space modeling industry for decade ... more | .. |
 LADEE Completes Mission Critical Design Review NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) has passed its most significant mission milestone to date, the Mission Critical Design Review, or MCDR. This means the LADEE observatory ... more | .. |
 "Big Splat" May Explain The Moon's Mountainous Far Side The mountainous region on the far side of the Moon, known as the lunar farside highlands, may be the solid remains of a collision with a smaller companion moon, according to a new study by planetary ... more |
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 Moon's mountains made by slo-mo crash: study The Moon's highlands, long a mystery, may have been thrown up billions of years ago by a slow-motion collision with a smaller companion moon knocked off its orbit, says a study released Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Atlantis Final Mission Included Successful Kennedy-Developed Plant Experiment Atlantis carried many science and research experiments in its middeck during NASA's last shuttle flight, STS-135, in July. Among these was a plant experiment developed at Kennedy Space Center's Spac ... more | .. |
  New uses for Space Station For more than a decade, the International Space Station has been a busy orbiting research lab. But it could soon take on a new role as a testbed for ambitious missions deeper into space. Futur ... more | .. |
  Herschel confirms Enceladus as primary water supply for Saturn atmosphere Observing Saturn, Herschel has detected evidence of water molecules in a huge torus surrounding the planet and centred on the orbit of its small moon, Enceladus. The water plumes on Enceladus, which ... more |
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Landsat study maps boreal forest shift north
Trump reinstates commercial fishing in protected Atlantic waters
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 NASA and International Partners Discuss New Uses for Space Station The Multilateral Coordination Board (MCB) for the International Space Station partner agencies met Tuesday, July 26, to discuss how to use the space station as a test bed for technologies that will ... more | .. |
Enceladus rains water onto Saturn ESA's Herschel space observatory has shown that water expelled from the moon Enceladus forms a giant torus of water vapour around Saturn. The discovery solves a 14-year mystery by identifying the so ... more | .. |
 Unique volcanic complex discovered on Lunar far side Analysis of new images of a curious "hot spot" on the far side of the Moon reveal it to be a small volcanic province created by the upwelling of silicic magma. The unusual location of the province a ... more | .. |
 Moon Express Announces Dr. Alan Stern as Chief Scientist Moon Express, a Google Lunar X PRIZE contender, has revealed that internationally recognized planetary scientist Dr. Alan Stern will be the Chief Scientist and Mission Architect for the company. ... more |
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 Northrop Grumman Honored by IEEE for Development of Lunar Module On the 42nd anniversary of Apollo 11 Commander Neil A. Armstrong's first steps on the moon's surface, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world's largest technical professi ... more | .. |
 NASA's Hubble Discovers Another Moon Around Pluto Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The tiny, new satellite - temporarily designated P4 - was uncovered in a Hubble survey sear ... more | .. |
 Two NASA Probes Tackle New Mission: Studying The Moon Two small NASA probes that had been used to study space weather now are orbiting the moon to study its interior and surface composition. The spacecraft, called Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence ... more | .. |
 Twin Artemis Probes To Study Moon In 3D On Sunday, July 17, the Moon will acquire its second new companion in less than a month. That's when the second of two probes built by the University of California, Berkeley, and part of NASA's five ... more |
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Flexible electronics reshape intelligent robot design
From Quantum Physics to Coastal Resilience Brad Bartz to Present Who Turned the Power Back On at AltaSea
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 Marshall Center's Bassler Leads NASA Robotic Lander Work Growing up on a working farm in rural Breese, Ill., NASA engineer Julie Bassler constantly found her attention drawn away from the tranquility of farm life by the thunder of jets from nearby Scott A ... more | .. |
 NASA puts space probe into lunar orbit NASA says the first of two spacecraft that will study the moon is safely in its lunar orbit after successful maneuvers guided by flight engineers in California. ... more | .. |
  Spend your summer in space...at the Science Museum This summer, make space at the Science Museum your holiday destination of choice. From 23 July - 31 August, pick up a passport as you enter the museum and follow the new space trail - embarking on a ... more | .. |
 Tasting the Ocean Spray of Enceladus NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered the best evidence yet for a large-scale saltwater reservoir beneath the icy crust of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The data came from the spacecraft's direct anal ... more |
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