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Acidic Europa May Eat Away at Chances for LifeMoffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 02, 2012 The ocean underneath the icy shell of Jupiter's moon Europa could be too acid to support life, due to compounds that may regularly migrate downward from its surface, researchers find. Europa, which is roughly the size of Earth's moon, could possess an ocean about 100 miles deep (160 kilometers). This ocean is overlain by an icy crust of unknown thickness, although some estimates are that it could be only a few miles thick. Since there is life virtually wherever there is liquid water on Earth ... read more |
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 VLT rediscovers life on Earth By looking at the moon "We used a trick called earthshine observation to look at the Earth as if it were an exoplanet," says Michael Sterzik (ESO), lead author of the paper. "The Sun shines on the Earth and this light is ... more | .. |
  Scientists Shed Light On Lunar Impact History A team of researchers from the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., have discovered that debris that caused a "lunar cataclysm" on the moon 4 bi ... more | .. |
  Rhea Before Titan Craters appear well defined on icy Rhea in front of the hazy orb of the much larger moon Titan in this Cassini spacecraft view of these two Saturn moons. Lit terrain seen here is on the leadin ... more | .. |
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 China paces to the Moon China announces its next manned spaceflight to be launched next summer. What are the implications for 'senior space powers'? On February 21, Chinese space officials announced that the next manned Sh ... more | .. |
 The Many Moods of Titan A set of recent papers, many of which draw on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, reveal new details in the emerging picture of how Saturn's moon Titan shifts with the seasons and even throughout t ... more | .. |
 SD-built camera spots tiny shifts on moon The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has found evidence that areas of the moon's surface stretched some within the past 50 million years, creating tiny valleys. The discovery was ... more | .. |
 NASA Spacecraft Reveals Recent Geological Activity on the Moon New images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft show the moon's crust is being stretched, forming minute valleys in a few small areas on the lunar surface. Scientists propose th ... more |
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China shuns calls to enter nuclear talks after US-Russia treaty lapses
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 X-rays illuminate the interior of the Moon Contrary to Earth, our Moon has no active volcanoes, and the traces of its past volcanic activity date from billions of years ago. This is surprising, because recent Moonquake data suggest that ther ... more | .. |
 Back to the Moon A Modern Redux The moon is again in the focus of world space exploration. Recently water was discovered on the moon - something scientists did not expect to find. This could lead to the establishment of lunar base ... more | .. |
  Honeycombs and Hexacopters Help Tell Story of Mars In a rough-and-tumble wonderland of plunging canyons and towering buttes, some of the still-raw bluffs are lined with soaring, six-sided stone columns so orderly and trim, they could almost pass as ... more | .. |
 The Rings of Saturn and Enceladus A crescent Enceladus appears with Saturn's rings in this Cassini spacecraft view of the moon. The famed jets of water ice emanating from the south polar region of the 504 km-diameter moon are ... more |
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  Space tours to the Moon - why not? The first space tourist may be flying around the moon already five years from now if Space Adventures company has its way. The Virginia-based private space exploration company recently announced pla ... more | .. |
 China publishes high-resolution full moon map China on Monday published a full coverage map of the moon, as well as several high-resolution images of the celestial body, captured by the country's second moon orbiter, the Chang'e-2. The ma ... more | .. |
 Heavy Ions Killed Mars Probe Russian Mars probe Phobos-Grunt was lost because space radiation disrupted its computer system, a commission investigating the incident said on Friday. The investigation found no faults with the spa ... more | .. |
 Manned Moon Shot Possible by 2020 A crewed mission to the moon is possible by 2020, the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin, said in an interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio station on Thursday. "Today sc ... 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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 Russia May Run Repeat Mission to Phobos Russia will send another sample mission to the Martian moon Phobos if the European Space Agency (ESA) decides not to include Russia in its ExoMars program, the head of Russia's space agency said on ... more | .. |
 NASA Mission Returns First Video From Lunar Far Side A camera aboard one of NASA's twin Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) lunar spacecraft has returned its first unique view of the far side of the moon. MoonKAM, or Moon Knowledge Acquir ... more | .. |
 A Moon Colony by 2020 Last Week, while addressing a Florida Space Coast audience, GOP candidate Newt Gingrich pledged to create a moon colony if elected president. This may at first seem far-fetched and an act of panderi ... more | .. |
  Solar Eclipse over the USA On Sunday, May 20th, the sun is going to turn into a ring of fire. It's an annular solar eclipse--the first one in the USA in almost 18 years. An annular eclipse occurs when the Moon passes di ... more |
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 U.S. Presidential Hopeful Promises Moon Base by 2020 US Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has promised to build a moon base by 2020 if he becomes the next U.S. President in November, the Former Speaker of the House of Representatives said ... more | .. |
 Rocket Man: Gingrich peddles space dreams in Florida Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has stirred strong passions by claiming he will establish a permanent moon base by 2020 if elected, but experts say he is living on another planet. ... more | .. |
 Moon looms bright over Republican debate Republican White House hopefuls set their sights high Thursday with some vowing they would shoot for the moon and restore American supremacy in space if elected. ... more | .. |
 The two faces of Titan's dunes A new analysis of radar data from the international Cassini spacecraft has revealed regional variations amongst Titan's sand dunes. The result yields new clues to the giant moon's climatic and geolo ... more |
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Engineered substrates sharpen single nanoparticle plasmon spectra
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 U.S. Denies Link to Mars Mission Failure A spokesperson at the Department of State denied information that the crash of the Phobos-Grunt probe to the Martian moon Phobos could have been caused by a powerful electromagnetic emission from a ... more | .. |
 Mimas And Dione Saturn's moon Mimas peeks out from behind the night side of the larger moon Dione in this Cassini image captured during the spacecraft's Dec. 12, 2011, flyby of Dione. Dione is 698 miles, or 1 ... more | .. |
Roscosmos Revives Permanent Moon Base Plans Russian Space Agency Roscosmos is in talks with its European and U.S. partners on the creation of manned research bases on the Moon, the agencies chief, Vladimir Popovkin, said on Thursday. "W ... more | .. |
Russia talks of permanent moon base Russia's space agency Roscosmos says it is in talks with European and U.S. partners about creating permanent manned research bases on the moon. ... more |
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 Montana Students Pick Winning Names for Moon Craft Twin NASA spacecraft that achieved orbit around the moon New Year's Eve and New Year's Day have new names, thanks to elementary students in Bozeman, Mont. Their winning entry, "Ebb and Flow," was se ... more | .. |
  Russia to Test if US Radar Caused Failed Space Probe Russia says the failure of its space probe that was intended to travel to a moon of Mars could have been caused by radiation from U.S. radars. Space official Yuri Koptev said Tuesday he will h ... more | .. |
 Students rename NASA moon probes Ebb and Flow A pair of unmanned NASA spacecraft that are orbiting the Moon were renamed Ebb and Flow on Tuesday by a middle school class in Montana, the US space agency announced. ... more | .. |
 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's LAMP reveals lunar surface features New maps produced by the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal features at the Moon's northern and southern poles in regions that lie in perpetual darkness. L ... more |
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