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Opportunity Studies Chester Lake Rock OutcropPasadena CA (JPL) Sep 19, 2011 Opportunity is in position at a target called "Chester Lake" at Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater. On Sol 2710 (Sept. 8, 2011), the rover pumped forward just over a meter (3 feet) to put some surface targets within reach of the rover's robotic arm. On Sol 2713 (Sept. 11, 2011), Opportunity took a color photograph of the flag and aluminum plate on the Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT) at the end of the robotic arm. The aluminum was recovered from the New York World Trade Center site after the t ... read more |
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  A Coral Reef in the Arctic Devon Island, the bulk of which straddles 75 degrees North latitude, well above the Arctic Circle, is a geologic wonderland. Today it is mostly polar desert. But it wasn't always so. Its tale ... more | .. |
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  ERS satellite missions complete after 20 years After a final thruster firing last week to deplete its remaining fuel, ESA's venerable ERS-2 observation satellite has been safely taken out of service. Ground controllers also ensured the space env ... more | .. |
  UC San Diego's HPWREN aids in recent supernova discovery A recent discovery by scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley, of a supernova within hours of its explosion was made possibl ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Inspects Next Rock at Endeavour NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is using instruments on its robotic arm to inspect targets on a rock called "Chester Lake." This is the second rock the rover has examined with a micr ... more | .. |
  US vows action against Pakistan-based insurgents Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Wednesday warned the United States would retaliate against insurgents based in Pakistan blamed for staging a dramatic attack in the Afghan capital. ... more |
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 Opportunity Continues Early Exploration Of Endeavour Crater Rim Opportunity is moving to other in-situ (contact) targets of interest around the region, called Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater. On Sol 2703 (Sept. 1, 2011), the rover made the first o ... more | .. |
 Memorial Image Taken on Mars on September 11, 2011 A view of a memorial to victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center towers was taken on Mars yesterday, on the 10th anniversary of the attacks. The memorial, made from alu ... more | .. |
  Proliferating Surveillance Satellites Almost 50 Earth observing satellites were launched in the past 10 years in addition to military and weather satellites. A further 200 or so are expected to be launched by 2020. Eight countries have ... more | .. |
  United Launch Alliance Launches GRAIL Spacecrafts To Moon A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket carrying the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft for NASA lifted off from Space Launch Complex (SLC)-17B here at 9:08 a.m. EDT ... more |
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  NASA Needs to Preserve Skilled Astronaut Corps In Post-Shuttle Era NASA should take steps to ensure that it maintains a highly trained astronaut corps to meet International Space Station (ISS) crew requirements while accounting for unexpected attrition or demands o ... more | .. |
  British firms partner on UGVs Britain's Roke Manor Research has joined with Marshall Land Systems for a mobile surveillance and electronic warfare capability for Marshall's unmanned ground vehicle platforms. ... more | .. |
  Robotic Loader System Achieves Composite Material Testing Milestone The Naval Research Laboratory robotic materials testing system, NRL66.3, has achieved, to date, the highest industrial rates of fully-automated production mode functionality known to NRL researchers ... more | .. |
 Global warming brings crab threat to Antarctica The sea floor around the West Antarctica peninsula could become invaded by a voracious king crab, which is on the march thanks to global warming, biologists reported on Wednesday. ... more |
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Greenland truce or Trump win? Davos "framework" pauses tariffs but not the takeover boasts
Greenlanders doubtful over Trump resolution
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  Recent trends show recession effect on US advanced technology exports U.S. exports of advanced technology products (ATP) fared better than other non-advanced technology exports during the recent U.S. recession, says a new report from the National Science Foundation (N ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin Recreates STORRM in Earthbound Lab Lockheed Martin's state-of-the-art Space Operations Simulation Center (SOSC) has completed its first orbital simulation test with hardware and data that was flown on NASA's STS-134 space shuttle End ... more | .. |
 Finishing Work at Tinsdale 2 Opportunity is continuing the in-situ (contact) investigation of rocks around the rim of Endeavour crater. On Sol 2697 (Aug. 25, 2011), the rover bumped a mere 0.15 meters (about 6 inches) to reposi ... more | .. |
 Microbe Risk When Rover Wheels Hit Martian Dirt Earth microbes trying to make it to Mars must survive sterilization in NASA's clean rooms, harsh cosmic rays during months of space travel, and the Red Planet's unforgiving surface environment. But ... more |
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  Walker's World: Two anniversaries The 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on 9/11 has overshadowed that other anniversary on Sept. 3, the outbreak of World War II, when Britain and France declared war on Nazi Germany. ... more | .. |
 Space Agencies Meet To Discuss A Global Exploration Roadmap Senior managers representing 10 space agencies from around the world met in Kyoto, Japan to advance the Global Exploration Roadmap for coordinated space exploration. During the past year, the ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Begins Study of Martian Crater The initial work of NASA's Mars rover Opportunity at its new location on Mars shows surface compositional differences from anything the robot has studied in its first 7.5 years of exploration. ... more | .. |
  NASA Needs Strategic Plan to Manage Orbital Debris Efforts Although NASA's meteoroid and orbital debris programs have responsibly used their resources, the agency's management structure has not kept pace with increasing hazards posed by abandoned equipment, ... more |
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 Hands-on space experience at German Aerospace Day 'Encounter' a satellite in orbit, view the Moon and the Rhine Valley in 3D, board SOFIA, the airborne observatory, or visit the wind tunnel or astronaut training facility to experience the extreme c ... more | .. |
 Space junk at dangerous 'tipping point': study Clouds of space junk orbiting the Earth have reached a dangerous "tipping point", threatening to smash satellites and endanger astronauts, US scientists warned in a study this week. ... more | .. |
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  Canadian Robot Repairs Components on the Space Station Dextre, the Canadian Space Agency's robotic handyman aboard the International Space Station (ISS), has successfully replaced a faulty circuit-breaker box on the orbiting lab. The robot swapped ... more |
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 Robonaut Wakes Up In Space After months of patiently snoring away in its storage bag, Robonaut 2 - the first dexterous humanoid robot in space - finally got its wakeup call on Monday. R2, as the robot is called, was del ... more | .. |
 Berkeley scientists discover an 'instant cosmic classic' supernova A supernova discovered yesterday is closer to Earth-approximately 21 million light-years away-than any other of its kind in a generation. Astronomers believe they caught the supernova within hours o ... more | .. |
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 NASA's Next Generation Robotic Lander Gets Sideways During Test During a recent test at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., the robotic lander prototype, known as Mighty Eagle, performed a hover test flying up to three feet and then translat ... more |
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