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• Mars 2016 Methane Orbiter: Searching for Signs of Life

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 651
  Elements of the ESA-NASA ExoMars program 2016-2018. Credit: ESA The new joint Mars exploration program of NASA and ESA is quickly pushing forward to implement an agreed upon framework to construct an ambitious new generation of red planet orbiters and landers starting with the 2016 and 2018 launch windows. The ...
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• Silicon technology offers extended X-ray vision of high-energy cosmos

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 591
  As elements of the integrated circuits running our computers, phones and electronics, silicon wafers are everywhere. An ESA-led effort is establishing an out-of-this-world use for these commonplace items: when stacked together precisely by the thousand they promise to deliver astronomy’s clearest X-ray view yet of ...
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• ¿Quién es esa Chica? Colombia’s Carla Ossa

  
  Hissip — Authority: 435
  See more of Carla Ossa’s beauty… Colombia has it good!
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• ESA Approves ExoMars Program in Cooperation with NASA

  
  Parabolic Arc — Authority: 532
  ESAs ExoMars rover. (Courtesy of ESA) Europe’s Mars missions get final go-ahead BBC News The Council of Esa has given the green light to a two-mission endeavour that would see the launch of an orbiter in 2016 and a rover in 2018. The exploration projects will be undertaken in partnership with the US space ...
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• Top 10 blog posts on Classical Life for 2009

  
  The Arts Blog — Authority: 131
   Here are the top 10 blog posts for 2009 on Classical Life (aka Classical Music by Tim Mangan). These are the top posts in terms of page views. I have eliminated reviews from the list because, strictly speaking, they are not blog posts, or at least not only .  Some of the other top posts also appeared in print, ...
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• Games Watchdog Looks Back Before Turning Out the Lights [Parenting]

  
  Kotaku — Authority: 805
  As reported earlier , the National Institute on Media and the Family , whose key funding dried up in a terrible economy, is closing. Founder Dave Walsh talked with the Associated Press, and reflected on his organizations influence in the industry. "Ten years ago, a kid 10 years old could walk into any store in ...
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• Desert Rock Power Plant to Be Reassessed in Light of Threat to Fish

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 473
  David Cassuto From the Things that Never Would Have Happened Under W Desk: The Bureau of Indian Affairs has withdrawn its Biological Assessment and the  EPA has also withdrawn the air quality permit they respectively issued last summer for the Desert Rock coal-fired power plant sited for the Navajo ...
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• ESA Member States give green light to ExoMars Programme

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 591
  ESA’s Council yesterday gave the go-ahead to proceed with the implementation of the ExoMars Programme. This decision paves the way for two Mars exploration missions in cooperation with NASA in 2016 and 2018.The ExoMars Programme aims to investigate the martian environment, particularly astrobiological issues and to ...
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• Earth from Space: As the wind blows

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 591
  This Envisat image shows the wind fields over the North Sea around Denmark and northern Germany. The image is centered over the Jutland Peninsula of Denmark, with the German state of Schleswig-Holstein in the lower half.The wind fields are derived from radar observations, with the speed values ranging from 0 km/s to ...
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• Space Anomaly

  
  In the Dark — Authority: 495
  After yesterday’s marathon , I’m not planning today to post another lengthy item about the STFC prioritisation exercise which is now public. However, a number of people have asked me about an apparent anomaly in the rankings and, despite the hostile reception I received on the e-astronomer when I posted a ...
  5 days ago

• Back from the ESA meeting!

  
  Bug Girl's Blog — Authority: 413
  I’m back from the ESA conference , and will be parceling out reports on the cool research I saw over the next couple of weeks.  I also will have a special guest post tomorrow about a Resource/Cookbook I know we will all need for our Holiday Entertaining!! A highlight from the meeting: Immediately preceding ...
  6 days ago

• Music 2009: Mark Sweds top 10

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 709
  A prerequisite for all music critics last century included a working knowledge of the New York subway system. It still does. But now anyone reporting on classical music must learn the L.A. freeway system as well. If that wasn’t already obvious in 2003 when Walt Disney Concert Hall opened, it surely was in 2009, a ...
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• Hubble Finds Smallest Kuiper Belt Object Ever Seen

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 591
  Like finding a needle in a haystack, the Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the smallest object ever seen in visible light in the Kuiper Belt. While Hubble didn’t image this KBO directly, its detection is still quite impressive. The object is only 975 meters (3,200 feet) across and a whopping 6.7 billion ...
  6 days ago

• Picture of the Day – Inside the dark heart of the Eagle

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 591
  Herschel has peered inside an unseen stellar nursery and revealed surprising amounts of activity. Some 700 newly-forming stars are estimated to be crowded into filaments of dust stretching through the image. The image is the first new release of ‘OSHI’, ESA’s Online Showcase of Herschel Images.This image shows a ...
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• AGU 2009 – Day 1

  
  The Martian Chronicles — Authority: 461
  For those not familiar with the conference, the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union is a terrifyingly, overwhelmingly large conference. Each year, something like 16,000 geoscientists descend on San Francisco to share their work. It is also one of the major planetary science conferences, so a lot of new ...
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• Even at sublethal levels, pesticides may slow the recovery of wild salmon populations

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 632
  Biologists determined that short-term, seasonal exposure to pesticides in rivers and basins may limit the growth and size of wild salmon populations. In addition to the widespread deterioration of salmon habitats, these findings suggest that exposure to commonly used pesticides may further inhibit the recovery of ...
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• First Herschel Science!

  
  The Herschel Space Observatory — Authority: 117
  Lots of new Herschel science will be released over the next few days by ESA. The first new result is an image of a region in Acquilla (not the Eagle Nebula as I originally stated – apologies!) taken with the PACS and SPIRE instruments. The Eagle Nebula image reveals the dust and young stars obscured from ...
  6 days ago

• Inside the dark heart of the Eagle

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 632
  Herschel has peered inside an unseen stellar nursery and revealed surprising amounts of activity. Some 700 newly-forming stars are estimated to be crowded into filaments of dust stretching through the image. The image is the first new release of OSHI, ESAs Online Showcase of Herschel Images. ...
  6 days ago

• Gaia to lift off from Europe’s Spaceport on a Soyuz launcher

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 591
  (ESA) – Gaia, ESA’s next-generation star mapper, will be carried into space by a Soyuz-STB/Fregat launch vehicle from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. David Southwood, ESA’s Director of Science and Robotic Exploration, signed the contract for the launch with Jean-Yves LeGall, Chairman and CEO of ...
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• ESA President Michael Gallagher’s Open Letter to the Industry

  
  Gamer Investments — Authority: 162
  Dear Friends, Before 2010 begins, I thought it would be worthwhile to look back at the computer and video game industry’s many accomplishments during the transformative year that is drawing to a close. Similar to all sectors of our economy, 2009 was a year filled with challenge for our industry. We were not immune ...
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