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September 15, 2014

Year's final supermoon is a Harvest Moon
Washington (UPI) Sep 8, 2014
The supermoon is making an encore, its last appearance before the moon's perigee - the portion of its orbit closest to Earth - and 2014 slowly fade away. Of course, the supermoon and the moon aren't two different entities; they're one and the same. And the moon isn't going anywhere, it's just getting a bit smaller. During the moon's perigee, the celestial sphere is some 30,000 miles closer to Earth, making full moons during this period appear beautifully swollen in the night sky. The perigee, ... read more

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Evidence of 'Diving' Tectonic Plates on Jupiter's Moon Europa Scientists have found evidence of plate tectonics on Jupiter's moon Europa. This indicates the first sign of this type of surface-shifting geological activity on a world other than Earth. Researcher ... more		China Sends Life to Moon Later this year, China will launch a spacecraft to the Moon and back. A scale replica of the Shenzhou astronaut capsule will be carried atop a boxy spacecraft based on the Chang'e lunar orbiter, and ... more		How much gravity is enough? Keeping upright in a low-gravity environment is not easy, and NASA documents abound with examples of astronauts falling on the lunar surface. Now, a new study by an international team of researchers ... more
				Titan's subsurface reservoirs modify methane rainfall The international Cassini mission has revealed hundreds of lakes and seas spread across the icy surface of Saturn's moon Titan, mostly in its polar regions. These lakes are filled not with water but ... more		China Aims for the Moon, Plans to Bring Back Lunar Soil Chinese scientists are in the course of developing a recoverable lunar robotic spacecraft Chang'e 5 that is to reach the Moon by 2017 with a mission to deliver samples of rock and soil back to Earth ... more

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Same-beam VLBI Tech monitors Chang'E-3 movement on moon By using the same-beam VLBI technology, differential phase delay successfully monitored the lunar rover's movement during the Chang'E-3 mission when rover and lander was carrying out the tasks of se ... more		How Titan's Haze Help Us Understand Life's Origins Where did life on Earth come from? There are several theories as to what might have happened. Maybe comets came bearing organic material, or life was transported from another planet such as Mars, or ... more		Aalyria spacetime platform tapped for AFRL space data network trials Atomic 6 debris shields selected for Portal Space Systems mission China starts large scale production of T1000 carbon fiber		Electric Sparks May Alter Evolution of Lunar Soil The moon appears to be a tranquil place, but modeling done by University of New Hampshire (UNH) and NASA scientists suggests that, over the eons, periodic storms of solar energetic particles may hav ... more
				Voyager Map Details Neptune's Strange Moon Triton NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft gave humanity its first close-up look at Neptune and its moon Triton in the summer of 1989. Like an old film, Voyager's historic footage of Triton has been "restored" and ... more		NASA, Partners Reveal California Meteorite's Rough and Tumble Journey A meteorite that fell onto the roof of a house in Novato, California, on Oct. 17, 2012, has revealed a detailed picture of its origin and tumultuous journey through space and Earth's atmosphere. An ... more

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China to test recoverable moon orbiter China is preparing for the launch of an experimental recoverable moon orbiter, said the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence on Sunday. The orbiter arr ... more		China to send orbiter to moon and back China will launch its first recoverable moon orbiter later this year, the government announced Sunday, in the latest step in its ambitious space programme. ... more		August supermoon will be brightest this year A supermoon is the term for a full moon that rises during the portion of the moon's orbit when it comes closest to Earth - the moon's perigee. ... more		NASA Experts, Russia Sign Radiation Safety Protocol Despite Sanctions NASA experts have signed a protocol with Russia on radiation safety for space flights despite the new set of US sanctions against Moscow, the director of Moscow State University's Institute of Nucle ... more

	SwRI-led team's research shows giant asteroids battered early Earth A new terrestrial bombardment model developed by an international group of scientists led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) indicates that Earth's surface was heavily reprocessed - or melted, m ... more		A Hellacious Two Weeks on Jupiter's Moon Io Three massive volcanic eruptions occurred on Jupiter's moon Io within a two-week period in August of last year. This led astronomers to speculate that such "outbursts," which can send material hundr ... more

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