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Science & Tech News tagged with spacecraft

Spacecraft That Sails on Sunshine Aims for Lift-Off in 2010
Science & Tech  (tags: Space, news, Spacecraft, NASA, tech, technology, science )

Katie
- 129 days ago - blogs.discovermagazine.com
It was a fitting tribute to Carl Sagan's imagination, optimism, and starry-eyed wonder. On Monday, which would have been Sagan's 75th birthday, the Planetary Society announced that it is pushing ahead with a plan for experimental spacecraft that will ride
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MESSENGER Spacecraft Reveals More Hidden Territory On Mercury
Science & Tech  (tags: NASA, Space, Spacecraft )

Nancy
- 130 days ago - sciencedaily.com
A NASA spacecraft gliding over the battered surface of Mercury for the second time this year has revealed more previously unseen real estate on the innermost planet.
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NASA Set to Dive-Bomb the Moon
Science & Tech  (tags: science, moon, research, nasa, space, spacecraft )

Katie
- 162 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
A NASA spacecraft and its trusty rocket stage are drawing ever closer to the moon to intentionally crash to their doom Friday, all in the name of science.The cosmic collisions are expected to kick up tons of moon dirt in giant debris plumes that .........
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Surprise! Saturn Has Small Moon Hidden in Ring
Science & Tech  (tags: technology, space, science, research, spacecraft, discovery, interesting, scientists )

Suzybell
- 381 days ago - news.yahoo.com
PASADENA, Calif. - Scientists have found a new moon hidden in one of Saturn's dazzling outer rings. The international Cassini spacecraft spotted the moon, which measures about a third of a mile wide. The discovery was announced Tuesday in a notice by the
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Astronomy Picture of the Day : 2008 November 03: A Spectacular Rayed Crater on Mercury
Science & Tech  (tags: Mercury, craters, NASA, spacecraft, APL, Astronomy )

Blue
- 501 days ago - antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov
Pictured, a particularly spectacular rayed crater spanning approximately 80 kilometers was imaged by MESSENGER during last month's flyby from about 20,000 kilometers up. The rays prevalence is a mystery because space weathering effects such as dust ...
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Mercury as Never Seen Before
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Ingrid
- 527 days ago - science.nasa.gov
NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft flew past Mercury and photographed a broad swath of never-before-seen terrain. The first of more than 1,200 high-resolution images are arriving back at Earth now.
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New Partial Rings Discovered Around Saturn
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Ingrid
- 559 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found two new, partial rings around Saturn that each accompany a small moon, shedding light on what determines whether a partial or complete ring forms with the moon.
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Mars Lander Discovers Ice, Scientists Say
Science & Tech  (tags: Mars, space research, spacecraft, ice, water, discovery )

Eduardo
- 657 days ago - sfgate.com
Elated scientists probing the arctic surface of Mars are convinced they have found a bright and shiny layer of real ice only inches beneath the Martian soil and directly under the body of the lander itself.
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From Earth to the Station: Europe's First Space Cargo Ship
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Ingrid
- 744 days ago - news.yahoo.com
A European cargo ship the size of a double-decker bus is primed for its maiden flight to haul fresh supplies toward the International Space Station (ISS).
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Five More Spacecraft Show Bizarre Speed Changes
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Ingrid
- 747 days ago - foxnews.com
Mysteriously, five spacecraft that flew past the Earth have each displayed unexpected anomalies in their motions.
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NASA Moon Rocket May Shake Too Much
Science & Tech  (tags: nasa, moon rocket, spacecraft, astronauts, moon, engineers, glitch, space )

Laurel
- 790 days ago - news.yahoo.com
WASHINGTON - NASA is wrestling with a potentially dangerous problem in a spacecraft, this time in a moon rocket that hasn't even been built yet.
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Ulysses Continues Its Journey Over the Sun's Polar Caps | NASA.Gov
Science & Tech  (tags: ulysses, spacecraft, sun, solar, pole, study, space, environment )

Jean
- 814 days ago - ulysses.jpl.nasa.gov
Third northern polar pass began November 30, 2007. The Ulysses spacecraft continues to go where no other spacecraft has gone before, namely, over the Sun's poles to study the Sun and Its Influence on the space environment. About a year after Ulysses once
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Deep Impact Has New Mission for New Year
Science & Tech  (tags: Deep Impact, spacecraft, comet, mission, nasa, astronomy, scientists, extrasolar planets, space, interesting )

Laurel
- 826 days ago - space.com
A former comet-slamming spacecraft will swing by Earth on New Year's Eve before starting a two-and-a-half-year journey to Comet Hartley 2.
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Massive Magnetic Ropes Found to Connect Earth to the Sun
Science & Tech  (tags: magnetic, rope, connect, earth, sun, northern lights, spacecraft, discovery, finding, eruption, power, source )

Jean
- 828 days ago - dailygalaxy.com
NASA spacecraft have made some fascinating discoveries as they attempted to reveal the power source of the Northern Lights' incredible substorms. Several important findings about the spectacular eruptions and the surprising source of their power are now s
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Alien Life Can Survive Trip to Earth, Space Test Shows
Science & Tech  (tags: alien, aliens, meteorites, spacecraft, experiments, scientists, research, space, Earth, microbes, astrobiologists, Mars, interesting )

Laurel
- 855 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
We could have alien origins, say scientists who sent fossilized microscopic life-forms into space and back inside an artificial meteorite.
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