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Discovery starts first leg of final flightCape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) Sep 10, 2010 The space shuttle Discovery rolled out of its hangar at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the first leg of its final mission into space, officials said. Discovery, the oldest space shuttle in NASA's fleet, was moved from its maintenance hangar early Thursday on its way to the nearby Vehicle Assembly Building, Space.com reported. The move had been planned for Wednesday but a broken water main at the facility delayed the move, NASA said. Discovery's final fight will mark its ... read more |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 07, 2010Opportunity finished her campaign to examine an exposed outcrop of rock that was of interest to the science team. On Sol 2342 (Aug. 26, 2010), the rover's robotic arm (Instrument Deployment Device, IDD) collected a single microscopic imager (MI) image of the target, "Laya Beach" and a MI mosaic of the target, "Cervera Shoal." On the next sol, the moessbauer (MB) spectrometer was plac ... more 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 06, 2010Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory rover that will be on Mars two years from now, has been flexing the robotic arm that spacecraft workers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory attached to the rover body in August 2010. The arm will be crucial for putting samples of soil or powdered rock into analytical instruments inside the rover. A camera and spectrometer to be installed at the ... more  
Washington (AFP) Sept 4, 2010NASA said it is developing a car-sized satellite that by "no later than 2018" will plunge into the sun's outer atmosphere for an up-close study of its super-hot corona, solar wind and lethal radiation. The ambitious project, first recommended at the dawn of the space age in 1958, will help "characterize and forecast the radiation environment in which future space explorers will work and live ... more |
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Cluster Turns The Invisible Into The VisibleParis, France (ESA) Sep 02, 2010 Cluster has spent a decade revealing previously hidden interactions between the Sun and Earth. Its studies have uncovered secrets of aurora, solar storms, and given us insight into fundamental processes that occur across the Universe. And there is more work to do. The aurora, those dancing lights in the polar skies, are but the visible manifestation of an invisible battle taking place above our heads. Supersonic particles from the Sun collide with our planet's magnetic field every day. Most ... read more |
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