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Total Eclipse of the MoonHuntsville AL (SPX) Dec 06, 2011 Waking up before sunrise can be tough to do, especially on a weekend. On Saturday, Dec. 10th, you might be glad you did. A total eclipse of the Moon will be visible in the early morning skies of western Northern America. The action begins around 4:45 am Pacific Standard Time when the red shadow of Earth first falls across the lunar disk. By 6:05 am Pacific Time, the Moon will be fully engulfed in red light. This event - the last total lunar eclipse until 2014 - is visible from the Pacific side of ... read more |
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  Schafer Corp Signs Licensing Agreement with MoonDust Technologies The Schafer Corporation has signed a Licensing and Development Agreement with MoonDust Technologies, LLC (MDT) of Tucson, AZ to give them exclusive, worldwide production and marketing rights for a u ... more | .. |
  Russian experts baffled by erratic behavior of Mars probe Russian Federal Space Agency experts are puzzled by the rising orbit of the Phobos-Grunt unmanned Mars probe, Roscosmos deputy head Vitaly Davydov said on Tuesday. The probe was launched on No ... more | .. |
 Mars departure window closing, will open later The astronomical window for the Phobos-Grunt's mission to Mars has just about closed, believe space industry sources. The probe could still fly by the red planet, but the expedition to land on and t ... more | .. |
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 Russia wants to focus on Moon if Mars mission fails If Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mars mission fails the country's space agency may focus on Moon exploration, the deputy head of the Roscosmos agency said on Tuesday. The Mars probe was launched from ... more | .. |
Last chance to send Russian Mars moon probe expires Monday The launch window to send Russia's Phobos-Grunt unmanned spacecraft to a Mars moon will close on Monday, an airspace source told RIA Novosti. "The spacecraft has already unfolded its solar panels an ... more | .. |
 Flying over the three-dimensional Moon Although the Moon is so far the only celestial body other than Earth on which a human being has ever walked, the topography of its surface has not been studied comprehensively. This is why NASA's Lu ... more | .. |
  Cosmic voyager has a layover in St. Louis Last January, two amateur meteorite hunters dropped by Randy Korotev's office at Washington University in St. Louis to show him their latest purchase, a 17-kilogram pallasite meteorite found in 2006 ... more |
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China shuns calls to enter nuclear talks after US-Russia treaty lapses
Why did Xi hold back-to-back calls with Putin, Trump?
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  Scientists Find Evidence for Subsurface 'Great Lake' on Europa In a finding of significance in the search for life beyond Earth, scientists have discovered what appears to be a body of liquid water the volume of the North American Great Lakes locked inside the ... more | .. |
 LRO Camera Team Releases High Resolution Global Topographic Map of Moon The science team that oversees the imaging system on board NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has released the highest resolution near-global topographic map of the moon ever created. T ... more | .. |
 Mystery of the Lunar Ionosphere How can a world without air have an ionosphere? Somehow the Moon has done it. Lunar researchers have been struggling with the mystery for years, and they may have finally found a solution. But first ... more | .. |
 Contact with Russian Mars probe 'unlikely' - expert The Phobos-Grunt unmanned spacecraft cannot be controlled at a low-Earth orbit, where it is currently stuck, because of its design features, a Russian space expert said on Saturday. The Mars p ... more |
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Ancient Lunar Dynamo May Explain Magnetized Moon Rocks The presence of magnetized rocks on the surface of the Moon, which has no global magnetic field, has been a mystery since the days of the Apollo program. Now a team of scientists has proposed a nove ... more | .. |
Ancient Lunar Dynamo May Explain Magnetized Moon Rocks The presence of magnetized rocks on the surface of the Moon, which has no global magnetic field, has been a mystery since the days of the Apollo program. Now a team of scientists has proposed a nove ... more | .. |
 Russian probe fails to set course to Mars A robotic spacecraft to the Mars moon Phobos launched early on Wednesday has failed to reach a flying orbit after separation from the launch vehicle, the head of Russia's Federal Space Agency said. ... more | .. |
  NASA's Cassini Makes a New Pass at Enceladus NASA's Cassini spacecraft will acquire the first detailed radar images of Saturn's moon Enceladus during a flyby on Sunday, Nov. 6. These will be the first high-resolution radar observations made of ... more |
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Scaling rules for metamaterials promise better implants and safer devices
Experts warn of urgent need to address human reproduction risks in space
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 Large asteroid to pass by Earth Nov 8 but what if it did not An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier will fly near Earth on Nov. 8. While there is no danger of it hitting the planet, a Purdue asteroid impact expert says a similar-sized object hitting Eart ... more | .. |
 Latest Cassini Images of Enceladus on View Raw, unprocessed images from the successful Oct. 19 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus by NASA's Cassini spacecraft provide new views of the moon and the icy jets that burst from its southern polar re ... more | .. |
 Lunar Probe to search for water on Moon Russian scientists at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences have chosen six venues for landing the Luna-Glob probe. With the launch of the probe in 2014, Russia will resume ... more | .. |
  NASA's Spitzer Detects Comet Storm In Nearby Solar System NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected signs of icy bodies raining down in an alien solar system. The downpour resembles our own solar system several billion years ago during a period known as ... more |
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 Orion's Belt Lights Up Cassini's View of Enceladus NASA's Cassini mission will take advantage of the position of two of the three stars in Orion's belt when the spacecraft flies by Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wed., Oct. 19. As the hot, bright s ... more | .. |
 The Hazy History of Titan's Air What rocky moon has a nitrogen-rich atmosphere, Earth-like weather patterns and geology, liquid hydrocarbon seas and a relatively good chance to support life? The answer is Titan, the fascinating mo ... more | .. |
Enceladus weather: Snow flurries and perfect powder for skiing Global and high resolution mapping of Enceladus confirms that the weather forecast for Saturn's unique icy moon is set for ongoing snow flurries. The superfine ice crystals that coat Enceladus's sur ... more | .. |
  Russian Space objectives Russia plans to carry out an unmanned lunar flight before 2050, head of the Russian Federal Space Agency Vladimir Popovkin said. Speaking at a State Duma session, he emphasized that further research ... more |
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Engineered substrates sharpen single nanoparticle plasmon spectra
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 Subtly Shaded Map of Moon Reveals Titanium Treasure Troves A map of the Moon combining observations in visible and ultraviolet wavelengths shows a treasure trove of areas rich in Titanium ores. Not only is Titanium a valuable mineral, it is key to helping s ... more | .. |
 Titanium treasure found on Moon A new map of the Moon has revealed an abundance of titanium ore that is up to 10 times richer than on Earth, a finding that could one day lead to a lunar mining colony, astronomers said on Friday. ... more | .. |
 NASA's Moon Twins Going Their Own Way NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)-B spacecraft successfully executed its first flight path correction maneuver Wednesday, Oct. 5. The rocket burn helped refine the spacecraft's ... more | .. |
 Piecing together a global colour map of Saturn's largest moon An international team led by the University of Nantes has pieced together images gathered over six years by the Cassini mission to create a global mosaic of the surface of Titan. The global maps and ... more |
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