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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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Rosetta bound for outer Solar System after final Earth swingby (w/ Video)This morning, mission controllers confirmed that ESA’s comet chaser Rosetta had swung by Earth at 8:45 CET as planned, skimming past our planet to pick up a gravitational boost for an epic journey to rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014.
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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 Space Technologies Go Mainstream -- InformationWeekNASA Space Technologies Go Mainstream In its annual report, the space agency identifies 49 technologies that are being repurposed in the private sector, including scheduling software for hospitals and a tuning circuit for 3G networks. By John Foley InformationWeek NASA technologies ...
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Overcoming Bias : Pondering PanspermiaPondering Panspermia Over the last few days I’ve neglected my duties to obsessively browse the last seven years of three journals: Astrobiology, International Journal of Astrobiology , and Origins of Life . In the process I’ve become converted to a more expansive version panspermia – life ...
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1NASA Space Technologies Go Mainstream -- InformationWeekSO, IF NASA had actually acted "like a business", then all of those great advances (including several critical to the computer industry) would have been held and profited from by the government / "we the people", rather than FIRST paid for by NASA and then ALLOWED to be used (at least for the ...JDP added 8 days ago
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1Lunar orbiter spots Apollo landing sites - Space.com- msnbc.comNevertheless, conspiracy theorists and doubters will just claim these images are false.JDP added 4 months ago
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How to Defend Earth Against an Asteroid Strike | Wired Science from Wired.comI'd hate to mess up space. There's enough human waste junk up there already. I just hate to think how much nuclear waste we will create out in space if we start firing off at every big asteroid heading this way. Personally I'll leave my future in the hands of its creator. We don't have enough ...Murray Peat added 7 months ago
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BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Galaxy has 'billions of Earths'" could be one hundred billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy." That is why searching is still going one. Find out what *really* exists. This is just reporting what the latest information and best extrapolations indicate. That is all it is. That is all it *says* it is.Phil Duby added 8 months ago
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BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Galaxy has 'billions of Earths'But show me just one that does. Count the doubtful words in this short description - could, just, very few, however, roasting, estimated, probably, most likely... No positive facts whatsoever. Just assumptions. Nothing to come close to "billions of..."Murray Peat added 8 months ago
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