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3-D Solar Tsunami Video Shows the Extreme Waves Are Real | Wired Science | Wired.comA 60,000-mile-high wave of super-hot plasma blazing across the sun's surface at 560,000 mph? Yep. Now we know. Solar tsunamis are real. “Now we know. Solar tsunamis are real,” said John Gurman of the Solar Physics Lab at the Goddard Space Flight Center, in a press release Tuesday. NASA’s Solar ...
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NASA'S LCROSS Impacts Confirm Water In Lunar CraterNASA'S LCROSS Impacts Confirm Water In Lunar Crater MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Preliminary data from NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, indicates the mission successfully uncovered water in a permanently shadowed lunar crater. The ...
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LCROSS Impact Finds Water on the MoonData from the down-looking near-infrared spectrometer. The red curve shows how the spectra would look for a "grey" or "colorless" warm (230 C) dust cloud. The yellow areas indicate the water absorption bands. The argument that the moon is a dry, desolate place no longer holds water. Secrets the ...
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NASA - NASA App Now Available from App StoreThe NASA App for the iPhone and iPod touch is now available free of charge on the Apple App Store. The NASA App delivers a wealth of NASA's mission information, videos, images and news updates to people's fingertips.
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NASA - Kepler Mission Detects Exoplanet AtmosphereNASA's new exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope has detected the atmosphere of a known giant gas planet, demonstrating the telescope's extraordinary scientific capabilities. The discovery will be published Friday in the journal Science. "As NASA's first exoplanets mission, Kepler has made a ...
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Europe is about to take an astronomical lead over U.S.The world's astronomers are about to get a trio of powerful new eyes on the sky that can see better and farther than existing space telescopes. As a result, Europe will hold a scientific and technological lead over the United States in some key areas of cosmology, at least for a while. Next ...
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Fuel for deep space exploration running low - Space- msnbc.comThe end of the Cold War's nuclear weapons buildup means that the U.S. space agency does not have enough plutonium for future faraway space probes — except for a few missions already scheduled — according to a new study released Thursday by the National Academy of Sciences. Deep space probes ...
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Hubble telescope poised for grand cosmic finale - msnbc.comIts exquisite images have graced the pages of astronomy books and calendars all over the world and provided astronomers with invaluable information on the mysteries of the universe. Now, after 19 years orbiting hundreds of miles above Earth's surface, the Hubble Space Telescope is getting its ...
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IEEE Spectrum: Space Debris Be Damned: Intelsat Flies a Satellite 77 000 Kilometers Without a CollisionScientists and engineers will gather in Europe this week to brainstorm about better ways of dealing with the increasingly dangerous amount of space debris orbiting our planet. But when you're the largest commercial satellite operation in the world, you don’t have time to wait for a better way. I...
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US: North Korea loading rocket on launch padNorth Korea is loading a Taepodong rocket on its east coast launch pad in anticipation of the launch of a communications satellite early next month, U.S. officials say. U.S. counterproliferation and intelligence officials have confirmed Japanese news reports of the expected launch between April ...
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