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Better Looks At Mars Minerals For Instrument On NASA's Mars Odyssey Orbiter
A new orbit at an earlier
time of day is increasing
the sensitivity and
efficiency of ASU's THEMIS
multi-band camera on NASA's
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International Space Hotel Envisioned
Plans for a new
international space hotel
students have been unveiled
by students this month as
part of a project for their
Masters degree. Students had
to grapple with the
... > full story
Fast Neutral Hydrogen Detected Coming From The Moon
NASA's Interstellar Boundary
Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft
has made the first
observations of very fast
hydrogen atoms coming from
the moon, following decades
... > full story
Mars More Like Earth Than Thought? New Details About History Of Water On Red Planet
New details have emerged
about the history of water
on Mars, gleaned from the
2008 NASA Phoenix Mars
Mission. Scientists found
... > full story
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Return To The Moon: First Images Kick Off Mapping Mission
July 3, 2009 — NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera has taken and received its first images of the Moon, kicking off the year-long mapping mission of Earth's nearest celestial ... > full story -
First Direct Evidence Of Lightning On Mars Detected
July 1, 2009 — For the first time, direct evidence of lightning has been detected on Mars, say researchers who found signs of electrical discharges during dust storms on the Red ... > full story -
Ulysses Hears The Siren's Song: End Of Mission To Chart Unexplored Regions Of Space
June 28, 2009 — Upon receipt of the last command from Earth, the transmitter on Ulysses will switch off on 30 June, bringing one of the most successful and longest missions in spaceflight history to an end. Ulysses, ... > full story -
ESA To Build Its Third Deep Space Ground Station In Argentina
June 26, 2009 — ESA has informed Argentinean authorities that an area 30 km south of the town of Malargüe in Mendoza province, about 1000 km west of Buenos Aires, has been chosen as the best option to build a ... > full story -
New Instrument Has Potential To Detect Water Deep Underground On Mars
June 25, 2009 — With the whoosh of compressed gas and the whir of unspooling wire, a team of scientists and engineers tested a new instrument prototype that might be used to detect groundwater deep inside ... > full story -
NASA Lunar Mission Successfully Enters Moon Orbit
June 24, 2009 — After a four and a half day journey from the Earth, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully entered orbit around the moon. Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in ... > full story -
NASA Moon Impactor Successfully Completes Lunar Maneuver
June 24, 2009 — The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, successfully completed its most significant early mission milestone Tuesday with a lunar swingby and calibration of its science ... > full story -
NASA's Mars Odyssey Alters Orbit To Study Warmer Ground
June 24, 2009 — NASA's long-lived Mars Odyssey spacecraft has completed an eight-month adjustment of its orbit, positioning itself to look down at the day side of the planet in mid-afternoon instead of late ... > full story -
Scientists Bring 'Light' To Moon's Permanently Dark Craters
June 22, 2009 — A new lunar topography map with the highest resolution of the moon's rugged south polar region provides new information on some of our natural satellite's darkest inhabitants - permanently shadowed ... > full story -
Mars Mission Could Ease Earth’s Energy Supply Crisis
June 22, 2009 — Techniques and instrumentation initially developed for ExoMars -- Europe's next robotic mission to Mars in 2016, but now due to fly on a NASA mission in 2018 -- could also provide the answers to the ... > full story
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