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Curiosity's Drill Hole and Location are Picture Perfect
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover drilled its eighth hole on Mars this week.
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Mars' Missing Atmosphere Likely Lost in Space
A Martian atmosphere thick enough to allow constantly flowing water may have been lost to space rather than trapped by surface rocks, according to a recent study.
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New Horizons: Probe captures Pluto's blue hazes
The New Horizons mission has returned its first colour image of Pluto's atmospheric hazes and shows them to have a blue tinge.
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New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto
The first color images of Pluto’s atmospheric hazes, returned by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft last week, reveal that the hazes are blue. “Who would have expected a blue sky in the Kuiper Belt? It’s gorgeous,” said Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Boulder, Colorado.
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NASA Releases Plan Outlining Next Steps in the Journey to Mars
A report that provides an update on NASA's strategy for human deep space exploration that will enable our journey to Mars.
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NASA's Curiosity Rover Team Confirms Ancient Lakes on Mars
A new study from the team behind NASA's Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity has confirmed that Mars was once, billions of years ago, capable of storing water in lakes over an extended period of time.
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Final Kiss of Two Stars Heading for Catastrophe
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, an international team of astronomers have found the hottest and most massive double star with components so close that they touch each other. The two stars in the extreme system VFTS 352 could be heading for a dramatic end, during which the two stars either coalesce to create a single giant star, or form a binary black hole.
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NASA Completes Critical Design Review for Space Launch System
For the first time in almost 40 years, a NASA human-rated rocket has completed all steps needed to clear a critical design review (CDR). The agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) is the first vehicle designed to meet the challenges of the journey to Mars and the first exploration class rocket since the Saturn V.
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Venus, Jupiter and Mars line up for skyline spectacle
Venus, Jupiter and Mars can be seen from the Earth's skyline this week in a rare grouping of the three planets.
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Sniffing Enceladus’ Spray - Spacecraft To Fly 30 Miles From Saturn Moon
On Oct. 28th, 2015, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will zoom past in excess of 19,000 mph, sampling the water plume emanating from its south pole. The instrumentation will be looking for signs of habitability on the icy world.
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Ion Engine Breakthrough Could Take Us To Mars At A Fraction Of The Fuel
A group of French physicists has optimized a type of ion thruster to significantly extend its lifetime: the new development made it sturdy enough to be able withstand a long trip into deep space. Such a thruster would require 100 million times less fuel than common thrusters that use chemical reactions to propel a spacecraft forward.
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Grooves on the surface Phobos hint Mars' gravity is tearing it apart
Grooves on the surface of Mars’ largest moon suggest it is being destroyed by its parent planet. While scientists have long suggested it is doomed to be destroyed, the ‘extensive system of grooves’ the first signs that the rocky satellite is gradually been torn apart. They were first spotted in the 1970s, but new analysis shows the grooves match up with regions being put under stress.
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China says it plans to land a rover on Mars in 2020
After exploring the moon, China now has its sights on Mars. The country plans to send a rover to the Red Planet in 2020, according to the country's state news agency Xinhua. On Tuesday, China unveiled a model of the rover in Shanghai, at the China International Industry Fair, a showcase for the country's latest technology.
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NASA confirms that the ‘impossible’ EmDrive thruster really works, after new tests
Engineer Roger Shawyer’s controversial EmDrive thruster jets back into relevancy this week, as a team of researchers at NASA’s Eagleworks Laboratories recently completed yet another round of testing on the seemingly impossible tech. Though no official peer-reviewed lab paper has been published yet, and NASA institutes strict press release restrictions on the Eagleworks lab these days, engineer Paul March took to the NASA Spaceflight forum to explain the group’s findings.
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It's official: NASA announces Mars' atmosphere was stripped away by solar winds
We finally have an understanding of how Mars transformed from a once habitable, Earth-like planet, into the dry world we see today. NASA researchers have just announced that Mars' once rich atmosphere was stripped away by solar winds in the early...
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The White House is Prepping for a Single Weather Event that could Cost $2 Trillion in Damage
NASA predicts there is a 12% chance we'll get hit within the next decade.
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Quietly, the new space race between SpaceX and Boeing burns hot
It’s been half a century since the United States finally dusted Russia in the space race, as NASA’s Gemini program ticked off an unprecedented series of long-duration flights, spacewalks, and in-space rendezvous to put America firmly on course to the Moon. Today, a new space race has begun. But this modern face-off has some key differences, not the least of which is that America's and Russia’s space programs presently depend upon one another.
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No, a “checklist error” did not almost derail the first moon landing
I've modified a few specifics in this piece thanks to input from Apollo Lunar Surface Journal contributor Paul Fjeld. Thanks, Paul! Last week was the forty-sixth anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing—the first of the six crewed landings on our nearest celestial neighbor. In the years between 1969 and 1972, 12 human beings walked on the surface of the moon...
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NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Heads Toward Active Dunes
The NASA Mars rover that is studying layers of a Martian mountain will soon get its first taste of the "Bagnold Dunes," a dark sea of sand along the mountain's base.
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Congress Says Yes to Space Mining, No to Rocket Regulations
SPACE: THE FINAL franchise. These are the entrepreneurs funding near space voyages and starship enterprises. Their continuing mission statement: to explore lucrative new orbits, to seek out new ores and new deregulations, to boldly go where no one has gone before. Capitalistic Captain Kirks rejoice! Yesterday the US Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act soared through both congressional houses with vacuum-like ease.
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