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July 03, 2012
SATURN DAILY
Titan's tides point to hidden ocean
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 03, 2012
Nothing like it has been seen before beyond our own planet: large tides have been found on Saturn's moon Titan that point to a liquid ocean - most likely water - swirling around below the surface. On Earth, we are familiar with the combined gravitational effects of the Moon and Sun creating the twice-daily tidal rise and fall of our oceans. Less obvious are the tides of a few tens of centimetres in our planet's crust and underlying mantle, which floats on a liquid core. But now the international C ... read more

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MARSDAILY

Houston Workshop Marks Key Step in Planning Future Mars Missions
A recent workshop conducted for NASA by the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) in Houston, marked a key step in the agency's effort to forge a new Mars strategy in the coming decades. A report that ... more
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SHAKE AND BLOW

NASA chooses University professors for $151.7 million mission
In 1971, NASA sent three astronauts who were University alumni to the moon as part of the Apollo 15 lunar mission. Now, three University professors have been chosen for a new NASA project, one that ... more
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MOON DAILY

ESA to catch laser beam from Moon mission
In 2013, a NASA satellite will beam digital signals to an ESA receiving station fast enough to stream dozens of movies at once. The test will help to demonstrate the readiness of next-generation opt ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

Hubba-Hubble
NASA has awarded University of Delaware astronomy professor Judi Provencal research time on the Hubble Space Telescope, and, as you might imagine, Provencal is over the moon about it. "The telescope ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Arecibo Observatory Finds Asteroid 2012 LZ1 To Be Twice As Big As First Believed
Using the planetary radar system at Arecibo Observatory, astronomers have determined that asteroid 2012 LZ1 is twice as large as originally estimated based on its brightness, and large enough to hav ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Two NASA Visualizations Selected for Computers Graphics Showcase
A NASA computer animation that shows how the sun's heat drives the Earth's swirling winds and ocean currents and a series that tours the lunar surface and the evolution of the moon are the scientifi ... more
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MOON DAILY

Researchers Estimate Ice Content of Crater at Moon's South Pole
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has returned data that indicate ice may make up as much as 22 percent of the surface material in a crater located on the moon's south pole. The t ... more
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MOON DAILY

Researchers find evidence of ice content at the moon's south pole
If humans are ever to inhabit the moon, the lunar poles may well be the location of choice: Because of the small tilt of the lunar spin axis, the poles contain regions of near-permanent sunlight, ne ... more
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PHYSICS NEWS

New Gravitational Biology Lab Allows for Testing in Artificial Gravity
NASA is expanding its existing capabilities for doing plant and animal tissue investigations on the International Space Station with the delivery of a new centrifuge scheduled for this summer. The c ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

China develops new rocket engine
China announced Thursday that it has developed a new engine for its new generation of carrier rockets, making it the second in the world to harness such engine technologies. The 120-tonne liqu ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

Kepler Telescope star data creates musical melody
Why stop at the dark side of the moon to make music when you can look thousands of light years into space? That's what a team of Georgia Tech researchers have done, using data from two stars in our ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Cassini Sees Tropical Lakes on Saturn Moon
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has spied long-standing methane lakes, or puddles, in the "tropics" of Saturn's moon Titan. One of the tropical lakes appears to be about half the size of Utah's Great Salt ... more
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MOON DAILY

Nanoparticles found in moon glass bubbles explain weird lunar soil behaviour
A stunning discovery by QUT soil scientist Marek Zbik of nano particles inside bubbles of glass in lunar soil could solve the mystery of why the moon's surface topsoil has many unusual properties. D ... more
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MARSDAILY

Impact atlas catalogs over 635,000 Martian craters
It's no secret that Mars is a beaten and battered planet - astronomers have been peering for centuries at the violent impact craters created by cosmic buckshot pounding its surface over billions of ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Enceladus Plume is a New Kind of Plasma Laboratory
Recent findings from NASA's Cassini mission reveal that Saturn's geyser moon Enceladus provides a special laboratory for watching unusual behavior of plasma, or hot ionized gas. In these recent find ... more
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Climate change speeds up destruction of key greenhouse gas
EUMETSAT extends role in DestinE digital twin infrastructure
New axis grid links complex earth data in space and time
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Electric Moon Jolts the Solar Wind
With the moon as the most prominent object in the night sky and a major source of an invisible pull that creates ocean tides, many ancient cultures thought it could also affect our health or state o ... more
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MOON DAILY

UA Lunar-Mining Team Wins National Contest
In what's become a common theme in the past year, a team of University of Alabama students won a national championship. The latest championship came not on an athletic field, rather on a simulated l ... more
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MOON DAILY

NASA Lunar Spacecraft Complete Prime Mission Ahead of Schedule
A NASA mission to study the moon from crust to core has completed its prime mission earlier than expected. The team of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, with twin prob ... more
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ECLIPSES

Partial Eclipse of the Strawberry Moon
On June 4th, 2012, there's going to be a full Moon. According to Native American folklore it's the Strawberry Moon, so-called because the short season for harvesting strawberries comes during the mo ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

New Moon for India
India's lunar exploration program seems to be on hold for the moment. The ambitious plan to land a rover on the Moon in a joint mission with Russia, followed in the future by a sample-return mission ... more
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MOON DAILY

NASA Offers Guidelines To Protect Historic Sites On The Moon
NASA and the X Prize Foundation of Playa Vista, Calif., announced Thursday the Google Lunar X Prize is recognizing guidelines established by NASA to protect lunar historic sites and preserve ongoing ... more
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MOON DAILY

Neil Armstrong gives rare interview - to accountant
The famously private Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, has been coaxed into giving a rare interview - with an Australian accountant. ... more
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EXO LIFE

Seeking Signs of Life at the Glacier's Edge
Microbes living at the edges of Arctic ice sheets could help researchers pinpoint evidence for similar microorganisms that could have evolved on Mars, the Jovian moon Europa, or Saturn's moon Encela ... more
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Heavy impurities reveal new link in quantum matter theory
Quark wakes reveal early universe plasma flowed like a liquid
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SATURN DAILY

Cassini Spots Tiny Moon, Begins to Tilt Orbit
NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its closest approach to Saturn's tiny moon Methone as part of a trajectory that will take it on a close flyby of another of Saturn's moons, Titan. The Titan flyb ... more
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IRON AND ICE

NASA Dawn Spacecraft Reveals Secrets of Large Asteroid
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has provided researchers with the first orbital analysis of the giant asteroid Vesta, yielding new insights into its creation and relation to the terrestrial planets and Earth ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Refurbishment on Grand Scale for Iconic VAB
The Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida has been a landmark to the technological advancements of sending men to the moon and astronauts into space for more than 45 ye ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Asteroid collision that spawned Vesta's asteroid family occurred more recently than thought
A team of researchers led by a NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) member based at Southwest Research Institute has discovered evidence that the giant impact crater Rheasilvia on Asteroid (4) Vesta ... more
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IRON AND ICE

NASA Dawn Mission Reveals Secrets of Large Asteroid
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has provided researchers with the first orbital analysis of the giant asteroid Vesta, yielding new insights into its creation and kinship with terrestrial planets and Earth's ... more
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MOON DAILY

Perigee "Super Moon" On May 5-6
The full Moon has a reputation for trouble. It raises high tides, it makes dogs howl, it wakes you up in the middle of the night with beams of moonlight stealing through drapes. If a moonbeam wakes ... more
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DEEP IMPACT

Catch a Glimpse of Halley's Comet Debris - Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower
Each spring as Earth passes through the debris trail from Halley's Comet (1P/Halley), the cosmic bits burn up in our atmosphere and result in the annual Eta Aquarid meteor shower. This year the peak ... more
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