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Model Helps Search For Moon Dust FountainsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 11, 2010 In exploration, sometimes you find more than what you're looking for, including things that shouldn't be there. As the Apollo 17 astronauts orbited over the night side of the moon, with the sun just beneath the horizon right before orbital "sunrise," Eugene Cernan prepared to make observations of sunlight scattered by the sun's thin outer atmosphere and interplanetary dust from comets and collisions between asteroids. The idea was to have the moon block the brilliant direct sunlight so this faint ... read more |
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New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) June 3, 2010The US government sent BP a 69-million-dollar bill for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill Thursday, warning it was only the first invoice, as undersea robots poised to try to curb the leak. "The federal government will, at some point today, send what I would call a bill for 69 million dollars of expenses incurred up to this point to BP," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said. He said the bil ... more  
Leicester, UK (SPX) Jun 03, 2010University of Leicester scientists have announced the start of work, in collaboration with industry, on advanced instruments for ExoMars- a new mission to Mars in 2018. A development model of the Mars Rover, called Bridget, was on display at the University providing invited schoolchildren as well as staff and students with an exciting glimpse into the shape of things to come. The eve ... more  
Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Jun 2, 2010 The U.S. space agency says it's planning its "Summer of Innovation" initiative to engage U.S. middle school students and teachers in science-based education. The program starts June 10 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The goal, officials said, is to increase the number of future scientists, mathematicians and engineers with an emphasis on broadening participation ... more |
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MBARI Sends Underwater Robot To Study Deepwater Horizon SpillMoss Landing CA (SPX) Jun 02, 2010 MBARI's Division of Marine Operations, under an agreement with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), sent a high-tech robotic submersible to the oily waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The goal is to collect information about the oil plume from the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig accident for NOAA. Although satellites and aircraft can help show the extent of the spill at the surface, MBARI's autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) will help researchers understand the nature and extent ... read more |
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