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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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New Map Bolsters Case for Ancient Ocean on Mars - Yahoo! NewsSeveral lines of evidence point to the possibility of a past ocean on Mars, from apparent ancient shorelines to chemicals in the soil. Add to the list a new map of the red planet's valleys. The map shows extensive valley networks around the equator and in the southern hemisphere, suggesting a ...
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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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Overcoming Bias : A Galactic GardenA Galactic Garden In August I wrote : A few years ago PCW Davies persuasively argued that Earth life more likely started on Mars. Last year, Napier and coauthors argued that comets are an even more likely source: A single comet of radius 10 km and 30% volume fraction of clay contains ...
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LaserMotive's Robot Is The First Ever To Win NASA's $900,000 Space Elevator Prize - Space Elevator - GizmodoLaserMotive's Robot Is The First Ever To Win NASA's $900,000 Space Elevator Prize LaserMotive's photovoltaic-powered machine became the first in the 3-year history of NASA's space elevator contest to climb a 2,953-foot-long ribbon, securing a prize of $900,000. However, they fell short of ...
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We're Not So Different, Earth and Mars - Space - GizmodoWe're Not So Different, Earth and Mars Here are two galleries for you, both of photos taken from space. ...
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