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Next Mars Rover Will Check For Ingredients Of LifePasadena CA (JPL) Jan 19, 2011 Paul Mahaffy, the scientist in charge of the largest instrument on NASA's next Mars rover, watched through glass as clean-room workers installed it into the rover. The specific work planned for this instrument on Mars requires more all-covering protective garb for these specialized workers than was needed for the building of NASA's earlier Mars rovers. The instrument is Sample Analysis at Mars, or SAM, built by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. At the carefully selected land ... read more |
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  LCD Projector Used To Control Brain And Muscles Of Tiny Organisms Such As Worms Researchers are using inexpensive components from ordinary liquid crystal display (LCD) projectors to control the brain and muscles of tiny organisms, including freely moving worms. Red, green and b ... more | .. |
  Radius Block Installation To Begin On Discovery Tank Technicians will begin installing additional support structures, called radius blocks, to space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank's support beams known as "stringers" as the shuttle stands insi ... more | .. |
  Planck's New View Of The Cosmic Theatre The first scientific results from ESA's Planck mission were released at a press briefing in Paris. The findings focus on the coldest objects in the Universe, from within our Galaxy to the distant re ... more |
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  2011 to be 'revolution' for Europe in space - ESA Europe is set for a space "revolution" in 2011 when two new types of rocket join its launch pad in French Guiana, European Space Agency (ESA) boss Jean-Jacques Dordain said on Friday. ... more | .. |
  Canon to spend $12bn on acquisitions by 2015 Canon plans to spend up to one trillion yen ($12 billion) by 2015 on mergers and acquisitions to expand in the areas of medical equipment and robotics, according to an interview published Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 NASA aims to launch Discovery Feb 24 NASA said Tuesday it will aim to launch the space shuttle Discovery on February 24, after engineers found a way to shore up cracks on the external fuel tank that have delayed its final liftoff. ... more | .. |
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  JWST Makes Significant Progress In 2010 Highlighted by the completion of its most important milestone to date, Mission Critical Design Review, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope made significant progress throughout 2010. Northrop Grumman C ... more | .. |
Balls, blocks, cars among high-tech toys at CES Balls, blocks and miniature cars with a high-tech twist were among the toys at the Consumer Electronics Show here - although at prices only adults who are still children at heart may be able to afford. ... more | .. |
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Robotic ball a hit at electronics show A glowing robotic ball that is controlled by a smartphone has won fans and the interest of game developers at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). ... more | .. |
  Moon Has Earth-Like Core State-of-the-art seismological techniques applied to Apollo-era data suggest our moon has a core similar to Earth's. Uncovering details about the lunar core is critical for developing accurate ... more | .. |
 Sugar And Spice In a packed arena, students are yelling and cheering in the bleachers at a national championship event. But this is no traditional sporting event: It's a FIRST Robotics Competition. FIRST stan ... more | .. |
 The 2011 FIRST Robotics Competition The FIRST Robotics Competition is an exciting, nationwide competition that teams professionals and young people to solve an engineering design problem in an intense and competitive way. For ma ... more |
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  Japan deep-sea robots to seek minerals: report Resource-poor Japan plans to use deep-sea mining robots to exploit rare earths and precious metals on the ocean floors around the island nation within a decade, a media report said Friday. ... more | .. |
  Dawn Has A Consistent 2010 Dawn finishes 2010 much as it began the year, thrusting with its ion propulsion system in steady pursuit of a distant world. During the next year, the probe will arrive there and begin its scrutiny. ... more | .. |
 NASA Tests New Propulsion System For Robotic Lander Prototype NASA's Robotic Lunar Lander Development Project at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has completed a series of hot fire tests and taken delivery of a new propulsion system for integr ... more | .. |
Always connected lifestyle on display at CES Smarter devices, homes and cars for the always connected lifestyle are taking center stage as the annual Consumer Electronics Show kicks off here on Thursday. ... more |
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 Astrobiology Top 10: Trapped Rover Finds Evidence Of Water On Mars The ground where NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit became stuck last year holds evidence that water, perhaps as snow melt, trickled into the subsurface fairly recently and on a continuing basis. ... more | .. |
 Asteroid Itokawa Sample Return The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa spacecraft has brought home to Earth tiny pieces of an alien world-asteroid Itokawa. "It's an incredible feeling to have another world righ ... more |
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