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• UFO & Extraterrestrial Life Disclosure 2009- 2012 (How The World Will Be Prepared)

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 163
  One Perspective on how the World will be prepared by World Governments and Religions for the eventual reality of Disclosure of Extraterrestrial Life. UFO Debunkers and Fuzzy Footage- www.allnewsweb.com Vatican Looks to Heavens for Signs of Alien Life- abcnews.go.com NASA: Possibility of Earth Like Planets & Alien ...
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• New video reveals how Webb Telescope’s MIRI detectors work

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Washington, December 30 (ANI): Researchers have come up with a new short video that shows what the James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) detectors are all about and what they can do.“The MIRI is one of four science instruments aboard the Webb telescope that is designed to record images and ...
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• Free Sporit: Right-Front and Right-Rear Wheels Sit Out Latest Drive

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 589
  Spirit’s drive on Sol 2120 (Dec. 19, 2009) included commands for using all six wheels. However, the right-front wheel rotated less than 2 degrees and the right-rear wheel did not rotate at all. The other four wheels completed enough rotations to drive about 10 meters (33 feet), but produced no measurable forward ...
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• Free Spirit: Right-Front and Right-Rear Wheels Sit Out Latest Drive

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 589
  Spirit’s drive on Sol 2120 (Dec. 19, 2009) included commands for using all six wheels. However, the right-front wheel rotated less than 2 degrees and the right-rear wheel did not rotate at all. The other four wheels completed enough rotations to drive about 10 meters (33 feet), but produced no measurable forward ...
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• Prepping WISE to Pop Its Lens Cap

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 589
  All systems are behaving as expected on NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), which rocketed into the sky just before dawn on Dec. 14 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The mission will undergo a one-month checkout before beginning the most detailed survey yet of the entire sky in infrared ...
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• As the World Churns

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 589
  “Terra firma.” It’s Latin for “solid Earth.” Most of the time, at least from our perspective here on the ground, Earth seems to be just that: solid. Yet the Earth beneath our feet is actually in constant motion. It moves through time and space, of course, along with the other objects in the universe, but ...
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• NASA Reveals CO2 Models

  
  Move Trends Real Estate Blog - The Leader in Online Real Estate — Authority: 141
  NASA recently released seven years of daily climate data, providing some of the first accurate evidence on the effects of carbon dioxide on our atmosphere. The satellite provides the data via its Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIR) instrument, which is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The AIRS has been ...
  2 weeks ago

• Glint of Sunlight Confirms Liquid in Northern Lake District of Titan

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 589
  NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft has captured the first flash of sunlight reflected off a lake on Saturn’s moon Titan, confirming the presence of liquid on the part of the moon dotted with many large, lake-shaped basins.Cassini scientists had been looking for the glint, also known as a specular reflection, since the ...
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• NASA Transfers Kepler Mission Management to Ames Research Center

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 589
  NASA today transferred management of all operations for the Kepler Mission from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif., to NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. JPL managed the mission through development, launch and the start of science operations. The spacecraft was launched March ...
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• Coldest Spot on the Moon

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 134
  Hermite is foreground for an Earthrise in 2007, witnessed by Japans Kaguya . Hugging the west side of the Moons north polar region Hermite is within the Zone of Librations. Though two-thirds of its 114 km-wide interior is technically on the Moons Far Side it can still be seen from Earth. Not along its southwestern ...
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• NASA’s WISE Eye on the Universe Begins All-Sky Survey Mission

  
  Astrocast.TV — Authority: 129
  NASA Press Release VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, lifted off over the Pacific Ocean this morning on its way to map the entire sky in infrared light. A Delta II rocket carrying the spacecraft launched at 6:09 a.m. PST (9:09 a.m. EST) from Vandenberg Air ...
  2 weeks ago

• Jetpack for Learning Taking Off

  
  Pogovor — Authority: 99
  Image via Wikipedia I’m privileged to be be one half of the technical mentoring team for the Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge , along with the prolific Andy Edmonds . We’re well under way to getting the participants going with implementing their ideas in Phase 2. You can read about some of them on the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Nasa sky survey probe blasts off

  
  Eideard — Authority: 149
  Successful launch of WISE satellite.
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• NASA’s WISE Eye on the Universe Begins All-Sky Survey Mission

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 589
  NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, lifted off over the Pacific Ocean this morning on its way to map the entire sky in infrared light.A Delta II rocket carrying the spacecraft launched at 6:09 a.m. PST (9:09 a.m. EST) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The rocket deposited WISE into a ...
  3 weeks ago

• WISE Launch Rescheduled for December 14

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 589
  The launch of NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission is now rescheduled for Dec. 14, with a launch window of 6:09 to 6:23 a.m. PST (9:09 to 9:23 a.m. EST). The first launch attempt scheduled for Dec. 11 was delayed due to an anomaly in the motion of a booster steering engine.Mission managers have ...
  3 weeks ago

• Off to Marquette

  
  Lights in the Dark — Authority: 115
    Opportunity checks out "Marquette Island" The rover Opportunity took this false-color photo of another possible stony meteorite dubbed “Marquette Island” on Monday December 7. These objects stand out on the barren sandy plain that Opportunity is currently traveling across on its way to Endeavour Crater and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Okay, Cross off "Asteroid Impact" from List of 2012 Earth-Ending Disasters

  
  WEIMAR WORLD SERVICE — Authority: 132
  It turns out that we might not be at the mercy of unknown life-ending asteroid collisions any longer, at least after Monday, when NASA launches its WISE telescope . WISE -- aka Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer -- will search for objects that give off any heat. National Public Radio notes: WISE should find many ...
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• New Star Found in the Big Dipper

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 589
  Next time you spy the Big Dipper, keep in mind that there is another star, invisible to the unaided eye, contributing to this constellation. According to a new paper published in The Astrophysical Journal, one of the stars that makes the bend in the ladle’s handle, Alcor, has a smaller red dwarf companion. Newly ...
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• NASA’s WISE Set to Blast Off and Map the Skies

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 589
  The countdown clock is ticking, with just days to go before the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, rockets into space on a mission to map the entire sky in infrared light.NASA’s newest spacecraft is currently perched atop a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket at Vandenberg Air Force Base, north of ...
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• Court issues notice to Himachal government on felling of trees

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Shimla, Dec 9 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh High Court Wednesday took suo-motu notice of media reports regarding thousands of trees facing the axe in Himachal Pradesh over the construction of a power transmission corridor.A division bench of Acting Chief Justice R.B. Misra and Justice Rajeev Sharma directed the state ...
  3 weeks ago

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