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China needs own space laws: OfficialBeijing (IANS) Mar 13, 2012 China needs its own law to protect its rights in outer space as well as regulate its domestic space activities, a top official has said. "China is among the very few countries that are active in space exercises but lack a space law," said Hu Hao, deputy commander-in-chief of the lunar exploration centre under the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry of National Defence. Hu, also a deputy to parliament, the National People's Congress, said this during the ongoing annual legislative ... read more |
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  Russia sets sights on Moon, Mars and beyond: report Russia's crisis-hit space agency intends to send its first manned mission to the Moon and deploy research stations on Mars under an ambitious plan presented to the government this month. ... more | .. |
 Twin GRAIL Spacecraft Begin Collecting Lunar Science Data NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft orbiting the moon officially have begun their science collection phase. During the next 84 days, scientists will obtain a hig ... more | .. |
 Apollo 12: Pinpoint Landing on the Ocean of Storms This image shows the remnants of not one, but two missions to the moon. Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean demonstrated that a precision lunar landing with the Apollo system was possible ... more | .. |
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 Magnetic moon In the nearly five decades since the first lunar surveys were conducted as part of NASA's Apollo program, scientists have advanced a number of increasingly complex theories to explain the vast swath ... more | .. |
 Apollo 11: 'A Stark Beauty All Its Own' This image of the Apollo 11 landing site captured from just 24 km (15 miles) above the surface provides LRO's best look yet at humanity's first venture to another world. When Neil Armstrong took his ... more | .. |
 Apollo 15: Follow the Tracks The Apollo 15 Lunar Module (LM) Falcon set down on the Hadley plains (26.132 degrees N, 3.634 degrees E) a mere 2 kilometers from Hadley Rille. The goals: sample the basalts that compose the m ... more | .. |
 Lunar lander firing up for touchdown Europe's ambition of touching down at the Moon's south pole by 2018 has been boosted by recent test firings of the craft's thrusters. The robot lander will prove new techniques for sending humans to ... more |
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China shuns calls to enter nuclear talks after US-Russia treaty lapses
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 Looking at the Man in the Moon Many of us see a man in the moon-a human face smiling down at us from the lunar surface. The "face," of course, is just an illusion, shaped by the dark splotches of lunar maria (smooth plains formed ... more | .. |
  Cassini Detects Hint of Fresh Air at Dione NASA's Cassini spacecraft has "sniffed" molecular oxygen ions around Saturn's icy moon Dione for the first time, confirming the presence of a very tenuous atmosphere. The oxygen ions are quite ... more | .. |
 China to launch moon-landing orbiter in 2013 China's third lunar probe, Chang'e-3, is expected to be launched next year and conduct a moon landing and lunar explorations, its designer said. Different from the previous two orbiters, Chang ... more | .. |
  Acidic Europa May Eat Away at Chances for Life 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, ... 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 | .. |
 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 |
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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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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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