Space Exploration

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• Documentary Film: Space Tourists, Take a Sneak Peek

  
  Space Coalition Blog — Authority: 145
  “Space Tourists” is a new product from Swiss filmmaker, Christian Frei. The documentary film focuses on private space traveler, Anousheh Ansari, launched on a Russian Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station. This epic film follows Ansari’s journey into Earth orbit, showing everyday life onboard the ...
  9 hours ago

• House Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Spaceflight Safety

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 661
  The U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Space & Aeronautics held a hearing yesterday on the issue of how to ensure the future safety of human flight into space for both commercial and governmental agencies. The hearing was attended by a number of witnesses that represented NASA, one from the Commercial ...
  16 hours ago

• STPSat-1 successfully completes extended mission

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 154
  This is a comparison of NOGAPS synoptic weather fields for 82 km for 18 UT (Universal Time) on June 13, 2007. Shown are maps of (a) temperature, (b) abundance of water vapor (parts per million by volume) and (c) resultant saturation (proportional to relative humidity). Values greater than 1 represent super ...
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• A Superbright Supernova That’s the First of Its Kind

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 154
  In this schematic illustration of the material ejected from SN 2007bi, the radioactive nickel core (white) decays to cobalt, emitting gamma rays and positrons that excite surrounding layers (textured yellow) rich in heavy elements like iron. The outer layers (dark shadow) are lighter elements such as oxygen and ...
  23 hours ago

• Suzaku X-Ray Observatory Spies Treasure Trove of Intergalactic Metal

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 154
  This image from the Japanese Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics shows the X-ray glow of the 100-million-degree Fahrenheit gas that fills the Perseus cluster. The white box indicates the area explored by the Suzaku X-ray telescope to detect chromium and manganese. The image is about two degrees wide, or ...
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  Rhetoric & Rockets — Authority: 120
  Potpourri CVFirst, from my buddy Dauna at Science @ NASA, a great article on the benefits gained from the Mars Spirit rover getting stuck in the Martian sand.From my NASA PAO feed: NASA will host a media teleconference with Bob Ess, Ares I-X mission manager, at 1 p.m. CST on Thursday, Dec. 3. Ess will provide ...
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• All they need is glove.

  
  The Guild of Scientific Troubadours — Authority: 122
  Glove is all they need. NASA, that is, according to New Scientist . They’ve got somewhere to go, but aren’t all dressed up yet – not without their one true glove . They introduced the contest thusly: Would you pay $250,000 for a pair of gloves? That’s what’s NASA is offering to the winners of its ...
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• Black-Hole Powered or Anti-Matter Fueled Spaceships?

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 154
  Louis Crane has come up with an idea for an interstellar drive: black-hole powered spaceships, fueled by singularities made in robot-run solar power laser factories hovering just over the sun.  Its fantastic science fiction, but unfortunately some seem to have forgotten the second word in that phrase. The starship ...
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• Super Earths May Be Superior at Fostering Life

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 154
  The newly discovered exoplanet orbits the star Gliese 667 C, which belongs to a triple system. The six Earth-mass exoplanet circulates around its low-mass host star at a distance equal to only 1/20th of the Earth-Sun distance. The host star is a companion to two other low-mass stars, which are seen here in the ...
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• Nasa’s Fermi Telescope Peers Deep Into a ‘Micro-Quasar’

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 552
  n Cygnus X-3, an accretion disk surrounding a black hole or neutron star orbits close to a hot, massive star.NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has made the first unambiguous detection of high-energy gamma-rays from an enigmatic binary system known as Cygnus X-3. The system pairs a hot, massive star with a ...
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• Astronomy Picture of the Day

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 154
  2009 December 1 NGC 6992: Filaments of the Veil Nebula Credit & Copyright: Daniel Lopez ( Observatorio del Teide ) Explanation, click image
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• Planetfall

  
  Astrogator's Logs — Authority: 93
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• Chang’E-1 has blazed a new trail in China’s deep space exploration

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 154
  This is a lunar global topographic map with a grid size of 0.0625o×0.0625o based on the CE-1 lunar DEM model CLTM-s01. In Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area projection, the left is the far side with centric longitude of 180oE and the right is the near side with central longitude of 0oE. The new topographic characteristics ...
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• Nasa’s Fermi Telescope Peers Deep Into a ‘Micro-Quasar’

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 154
  In Cygnus X-3, an accretion disk surrounding a black hole or neutron star orbits close to a hot, massive star. Gamma rays (purple, in this illustration) likely arise when fast-moving electrons above and below the disk collide with the stars ultraviolet light. Fermi sees more of this emission when the disk is on the ...
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• Climate Change in Kuwait Bay: Higher Temperatures Having Profound Effects

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 154
  MODIS satellite images covered the Arabian Gulf (yearly average for 2006). This image show that the temperature increases generally towards the coastline. This is perhaps due to the heating effect of the local human activities which take place near the shoreline. The heating is about 2-3 ºC within 20 to 30 km from ...
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• Black Hole Caught Zapping Galaxy Into Existence?

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 154
  This artists impression shows how jets from supermassive black holes could form galaxies, thereby explaining why the mass of black holes is larger in galaxies that contain more stars. (Credit: Image courtesy of ESO) ScienceDaily (Nov. 30, 2009) — Which come first, the supermassive black holes that frantically ...
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• Climate Studies to Benefit from 12 Years of Satellite Aerosol Data

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 154
  Desert dust blown from the Western Sahara towards the Canary Islands, seen in this 300-m resolution Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) image. The wind can move between 60 and 200 million tonnes of fine dust up from the Sahara each year. (Credit: ESA) ScienceDaily (Nov. 30, 2009) — Aerosols, very ...
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• Texus-46’s Flight to the Weightless World

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 154
  ScienceDaily (Nov. 30, 2009) — Texus-46, the latest in the series of ESA-funded sounding rockets, soared into a blue sky on Nov. 22, when the unpredictable weather of early winter finally allowed launch after a seven-day wait. The TEXUS 43 sounding rocket was successfully launched 11 May 2006 from the Swedish ...
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• What Will Shooting for Mars Get Us?

  
  Blogging Innovation — Authority: 141
  by Stephen Shapiro At the TEDx NASA conference, I had some amazing conversations with people in the "green room" while preparing to take the stage. One individual had spent his entire career with NASA focused on travel to Mars. This was his lifes passion. But now that he has moved out of the space program into the ...
  3 days ago

• STS-129 Landing

  
  The Deeps of Time — Authority: 122
  For those of you who missed Friday’s landing of the shuttle Atlantis , as I did due to Thanksgiving-break activities, here is the replay from NASA:
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