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Cassini to Make Closest Pass Yet over Enceladus South PolePasadena CA (JPL) Mar 28, 2012 NASA's Cassini spacecraft is preparing to make its lowest pass yet over the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus, where icy particles and water vapor spray out in glittering jets. The closest approach, at an altitude of about 46 miles (74 kilometers), will occur around 11:30 a.m. PDT (2:30 p.m. EDT) on March 27. This flyby is primarily designed for Cassini's ion and neutral mass spectrometer, which will attempt to "taste" particles from the jets. Scientists using this spectrometer will ut ... read more |
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 Happy Birthday Titan! On March 25, 1655, Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens, using a telescope he built himself, observed a small bright dot suspiciously close to the planet Saturn. Huygens correctly surmised that it mi ... more | .. |
  NASA's Grail MoonKam Returns First Student-Selected Lunar Images One of two NASA spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed back the first student-requested pictures of the lunar surface from its onboard camera. Fourth grade students from the Emily Dickinson Element ... more | .. |
  Magnetic field researchers target 100-tesla goal Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory's biggest magnet facility have met the grand challenge of producing magnetic fields in excess of 100 tesla while conducting six different experiments. T ... more | .. |
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  Some orbits more popular than others in solar systems Computer simulations have revealed a plausible explanation for a phenomenon that has puzzled astronomers: Rather than occupying orbits at regular distances from a star, giant gas planets similar to ... more | .. |
  Dawn Sees New Surface Features on Giant Asteroid NASA's Dawn spacecraft has revealed unexpected details on the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. New images and data highlight the diversity of Vesta's surface and reveal unusual geologic features ... more | .. |
  MESSENGER Provides New Look at Mercury's Landscape, Metallic Core, and Polar Shadows MESSENGER completed its one-year primary mission on March 17. Since moving into orbit about Mercury a little over one year ago, the spacecraft has captured nearly 100,000 images and returned data th ... more | .. |
 Ecliptic "MoonKAM" Systems Begin Operations in Lunar Orbit Two four-camera color video systems supplied by Ecliptic Enterprises Corporation to NASA's dual-spacecraft Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) project have been turned on and are genera ... more |
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Voyager outlines infrastructure-led roadmap for long-term US lunar presence
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 Cassini Sees Saturn Stressing out Enceladus Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have, for the first time, enabled scientists to correlate the spraying of jets of water vapor from fissures on Saturn's moon Enceladus with the way Saturn's gra ... more | .. |
  Cosmic rays alter chemistry of lunar ice Space scientists from the University of New Hampshire and multi-institutional colleagues report they have quantified levels of radiation on the moon's surface from galactic cosmic ray (GCR) bombardm ... more | .. |
 China to get lunar soil Preparations are on in China to launch a moon mission and bring about two kilogram of lunar soil samples to Earth, People's Daily reported Friday. The mission is part of the third phase of the ... more | .. |
 Two New NASA LRO Videos: See Moon's Evolution, Take a Tour In honor of 1,000 days in orbit, the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) team at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md. has released two new videos. One video takes viewers thro ... more |
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 Space Systems Loral Provides on Time Delivery of NASA Propulsion System Space Systems/Loral has completed on time delivery of a new propulsion system to NASA. The propulsion system for the Lunar Atmosphere Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft was delivered to NA ... more | .. |
 Why do We See the Man in the Moon? There's something poetic about gazing up at the night sky, seeing the familiar face of the "Man in the Moon" who faithfully accompanies us through life. The synchronous rotation of the Moon - it tak ... more | .. |
 China's second moon orbiter outperforms design China's second moon orbiter, the Chang'e-2, has performed outstandingly, a Chinese lawmaker close to the lunar exploration project said Tuesday. Chang'e-2 has more than achieved the goals set ... more | .. |
 China starts manufacturing third lunar probe China has begun designing and manufacturing the flight model entity of its third lunar probe, Chang'e-3, according to the administration of China's lunar probe project. As a key part of the se ... more |
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Experts warn of urgent need to address human reproduction risks in space
Engineered microbes use light to build new molecules
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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 | .. |
  China needs own space laws: Official 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 ... 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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Ultra thin metasurface chip turns infrared into steerable visible beams
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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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