• Volume 51, Number 14, December 2003

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    Planetary and Space Science, Volume 51, Number 14, December 2003. Loaded on 2003-12-06

  • Volume 51, Number 9, August 2003

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    Planetary and Space Science, Volume 51, Number 9, August 2003. Loaded on 2003-08-02

  • Volume 51, Number 4, April 2003

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    Planetary and Space Science, Volume 51, Number 4, April 2003. Loaded on 2006-08-08

  • Volume 51, Number 2, February 2003

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    Planetary and Space Science, Volume 51, Number 2, February 2003. Loaded on 2006-08-08

  • Gravitational modelling of the proof mass for ASTROD mission

    Updated: 2010-04-30 08:32:46
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  • Covariance study of radar ranging data for measuring the Sun's gravitational to inertial mass ratio

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  • Gravity Probe B payload verification and test program

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  • The Gravity Probe B gyroscope readout system

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  • Development of the Gravity Probe B flight mission

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  • The NASA/ESA MiniSTEP project

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  • ESA's STEP assessment and phase a studies for M2 and M3

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  • Theoretical motivations for Equivalence Principle tests

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  • Progress in laboratory research for fundamental physics space missions using optical devices

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  • Mission analysis for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission

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  • LISA - An ESA cornerstone mission for the detection and observation of gravitational waves

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  • Drag-free control for fundamental physics missions

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  • Fundamental physics from space and in space

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  • Fundamental physics in space in ESA and COSPAR

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  • New Antarctica Research: Ice Sheets Act as Giant Mirrors Controlling Future Climate Change

    Updated: 2010-04-30 07:32:00
    New Antarctica research may provide critical clues to understanding one of the most dramatic periods of climatic change in Earth's history - and a glimpse into what might lie far ahead in the planet's climate’s future. The giant ice sheets...

  • Mars in 3D: James Cameron Convinces NASA to Include 3-D Camera on Mars Rover "Curiosity"

    Updated: 2010-04-30 07:18:00
    James Cameron, director for the all-time great SciFi blockbuster, smash Avatar, is now helping to direct the search for life on Mars. The AP reports that Cameron has successfully lobbied Charles Bolden, NASA'a administrator, to include a special 3-D camera...

  • You Create the Caption

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  • Arecibo telescope tracks potentially dangerous asteroid within 1.5 million miles of Earth

    Updated: 2010-04-30 00:20:21
    Radar imaging of asteroid 2005 YU55 showed that the asteroid is about 1,300 feet (400 meters) in size and about twice as large as previously estimated.

  • Ice lurks in asteroid's cold heart

    Updated: 2010-04-30 00:20:20
    Scientists say the discovery of water-ice is a result of 6 years of observing asteroid 24 Themis.

  • Japan’s “Solar Yacht” Is Ready to Ride Sunbeams Through Space | 80beats

    Updated: 2010-04-29 23:08:57
    On May 18, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) says, it will launch into space a “solar yacht” called Ikaros—the Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation of the Sun (named, of course, in honor of Icarus in Greek mythology). JAXA plans to control the path of Ikaros by changing the angle at which sunlight particles bounce [...]

  • Monsters from the Id! | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2010-04-29 22:41:23
    If you’re in LA this weekend, and you love SciFi and mad scientists — and c’mon, who doesn’t? — then you’ll want to attend the screening of "Monsters from the Id", a documentary on mad scientists, 1950s movies, and the future of science in the US. Seriously, check this video out and tell me you [...]

  • Frost-Covered Asteroid Suggests Extraterrestrial Origin for Earth’s Oceans | 80beats

    Updated: 2010-04-29 17:36:05
    There are millions of asteroids in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but yesterday attention focused on just one. According to a couple of studies in Nature, a large asteroid called 24 Themis is rife with water ice and organic molecules, and the researchers say that it could be more evidence that the water [...]

  • Cassini Spacecraft Glides Over Saturn Moon in Search for Life

    Updated: 2010-04-29 16:19:10
    The Cassini spacecraft exploring Saturn got a new taste of the ringed planet's moon Enceladus late Tuesday when it flew over the icy satellite in a gravity experiment. NASA's Cassini probe glided low over Enceladus to perform an experiment designed...

  • Life Direct: Did Asteroids Deliver Water and Organic Material to Earth?

    Updated: 2010-04-29 16:19:08
    Ice has been detected on an asteroid, supporting the idea they might have sparked life on Earth. A "slushy cocktail" of water-ice and organic materials has been directly detected on the surface of an asteroid for the first time. The...

  • Where In The Universe #102

    Updated: 2010-04-29 16:19:03
    Ready for another Where In The Universe Challenge? Here's #102! Take a look and see if you can name where in the Universe this image is from. Give yourself extra points if you can name the spacecraft responsible for the image. We provide the image today, but won’t reveal the answer until tomorrow. This gives [...]

  • Answer to Universe Puzzle No. 11 Now Posted

    Updated: 2010-04-29 16:19:03
    I've now posted the answer in the original post. Check back next week for another Universe Puzzle!© Jean Tate for Universe Today, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.usPost tags:Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh

  • Huge solar eruption caught by SDO! | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2010-04-29 14:00:11
    On April 19, 2010, NASA’s newly-launched Solar Dynamics Observatory caught a massive eruption on the Sun, called a prominence, as it blasted millions of tons of 60,000 K (100,000° F) gas off the surface of the Sun. Check out this amazing footage as the material blows upward, then rains back down onto the Sun’s surface. Holy [...]

  • Touring Saturn | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2010-04-29 08:31:35
    Amy Roth — that’s Skepchick Surly Amy to you — interviewed Cassini tour designer John Smith. It’s part of a new segment on Skepchick called Keep your day job: Amy is a cool chick: artistic, skeptical, tattooed, photographically inclined, and loves astronomy. I got to hang with her and other skepchicks last week in Pasadena, and [...]

  • Get Your Daily Dose of Awe @The Daily Galaxy Facebook Page

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  • Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks May 6

    Updated: 2010-04-29 00:16:57
    Debris from Halley's Comet gives birth to an impressive sky show during May's first week.

  • Defending Science on HuffPo | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2010-04-28 21:39:29
    I used to write for the Huffington Post, before it became overrun with antiscience alt-med antivax garbage so thick I could smell it through my monitor. Case in point would be a somewhat targetless essay by Dr. Larry Dossey, who seems to be trying to say that because science is portrayed as an individual effort, but [...]

  • Satellite Captures Wall of Dust Moving Across Sahara

    Updated: 2010-04-28 19:52:18
    Wow — this looks HUGE from orbit — can you imagine standing out in the Sahara Desert and seeing this gigantic wall of dust heading right towards you? The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite observed this wall of dust on April 22, 2010 which spans hundreds of kilometers. See [...]

  • World's biggest telescope to be located on Cerro Armazones, Chile

    Updated: 2010-04-28 19:52:18
    The decision to build the telescope on Cerro Armazones was based on an extensive comparative meteorological investigation that lasted several years.

  • Submit Your Questions about Apollo, Apollo 13 to NASA Engineer Jerry Woodfill

    Updated: 2010-04-28 19:52:17
    Our series "13 Things That Saved Apollo 13" has raised a few questions for some of our readers about spacecraft design, decisions made during the Apollo program, and general questions about spaceflight. Some of you have already left questions as comments on the articles or sent in emails. NASA engineer Jerry Woodfill, who [...]

  • Possible Destination? Researchers Find Water Ice and Organics on Asteroid

    Updated: 2010-04-28 19:52:17
    We usually think of asteroids as dark, dry, lifeless chunks of rock, just like the image of Asteroid Itokawa, above. But some asteroids may be more like "minor planets" after all. Researchers have found evidence on one asteroid – 24 Themis – of water ice and organic materials. This discovery is exciting [...]

  • Further Dinosaur Featherosity | The Loom

    Updated: 2010-04-28 18:45:16
    I’m on the road today, so I don’t have time to explain the fascinating science behind this freaky new picture of feathered dinosaurs young and old. So let me just direct your attention to fellow D-blogger, Ed Yong, and Nature’s Janet Fang for more. [Image by Xing Lida and Song Qijin]

  • Space Station Search for Anti-Matter to Go Live

    Updated: 2010-04-28 11:51:21
    A scheduled July mission by space shuttle Endeavor has been delayed until November so that NASA scientists can make changes designed to extend the lifespan of the onboard Alpha Magnetic Spectometer (AMS). The September 30 Discovery mission, which will see...

  • Have We Contaminated Mars with Life?

    Updated: 2010-04-28 11:51:20
    Michael Crichton would have loved this: Bacteria common to spacecraft may be able to survive the harsh environs of Mars long enough to inadvertently contaminate Mars with terrestrial life, according to new research. "If long-term microbial survival is possible on...

  • Are We Contaminating Mars?

    Updated: 2010-04-28 07:42:12
    With Mars seemingly the destination of choice in NASA's future, researchers are taking a look at what kinds of things we want to bring with us when we go to Mars. But also, just as important is what we don't want to take with us. A new study by the University of Central [...]

  • NCBI ROFL: I’d like a number 2 value meal, a frosty, and a peer-reviewed publication, please. | Discoblog

    Updated: 2010-04-28 00:00:38
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  • Planck highlights the complexity of star formation

    Updated: 2010-04-27 23:41:06
    Where optical telescopes see only black space, Planck's microwave eyes reveal myriad glowing structures of dust and gas.

  • Lunokhod 1 retroreflector found

    Updated: 2010-04-27 19:32:31
    The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter team helped scientists track laser signals to the Russian rover mirror.

  • Pleiades -"The Mind" of NASA

    Updated: 2010-04-27 11:31:13
    NASA uses "Pleiades," its petaflops supercomputer, to make very fast and accurate measurements in the field of “higher fidelity” modeling and simulation. For instance, NASA already is using supercomputers to model black holes. It will also help NASA to design...

  • A Moment of Zen: "Our Place in the Cosmos"

    Updated: 2010-04-27 11:31:08
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  • "Data" Narrates Hubble Documentary

    Updated: 2010-04-27 07:22:08
    The Hubble Space Telescope is one of the greatest technological achievements in our history, and for two decades has astonished us with dynamic images of our solar system and the world beyond. To celebrate this important twenty-year milestone, NASA looks back at the contributions of this extraordinary scientific tool, and the scientists who created it, [...]

  • Research illuminates the shape of dark matter's distribution

    Updated: 2010-04-26 23:21:05
    A thorough examination of the shape of dark matter's distribution in the cosmos may open up a new way to explore the nature of this enigmatic matter.

  • Now Witness the Firepower of This Fully Operational (and slow motion) Saturn V

    Updated: 2010-04-26 23:21:04
    Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch (HD) Camera E-8 from Mark Gray on Vimeo. This is so cool – and impressive, most impressive! A 16mm camera located near the base of the Saturn V rocket captured incredible detail about the ignition and lift off of the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon. The high-quality video [...]

  • M81's halo sheds light on galaxy formation

    Updated: 2010-04-26 23:21:04
    The most prominent of the galaxy formation models predicts that galaxies are built up from the merging and accretion of many smaller galaxies that orbit within their gravitational sphere of influence.

  • Final Shuttle Flight Will Be Delayed at Least Until November for AMS Switchout

    Updated: 2010-04-26 23:21:03
    A switch-out of the magnet for a much anticipated particle physics experiment on the International Space Station will force NASA to delay the final flight of the space shuttle until at least November, and change which orbiter and crew will fly the final space shuttle mission. The $2 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer was scheduled [...]

  • New Images from Planck Reveal Star Formation Processes

    Updated: 2010-04-26 19:12:07
    While most newborn stars are hidden beneath a blanket of gas and dust, the Planck space observatory – with its microwave eyes – can peer beneath that shroud to provide new insights into star formation. The latest images released by the Planck team bring to light two different star forming regions in the Milky [...]

  • Universe Puzzle No. 11

    Updated: 2010-04-26 19:12:06
    How did you do in last week's Universe Puzzle? Do you enjoy these puzzles? What do you particularly like? Dislike? Would like to see changed? Would like to see more of? Let me know please! Once again, this week's puzzle requires you to cudgel your brains a bit and do some lateral thinking (five minutes spent googling [...]

  • Possible evidence for past life in another Martian meteorite

    Updated: 2010-04-25 10:50:59
    I received an interesting report this week, courtesy of Nick Balaskas, regarding additional possible evidence for past microscopic life on Mars, found in another well-known Martian meteorite, NWA 998.... Read more

  • Astronomy Without A Telescope – The Nice Way To Build A Solar System

    Updated: 2010-04-25 06:42:31
    When considering how the solar system formed, there are a number of problems with the idea of planets just blobbing together out of a rotating accretion disk. The Nice model (and OK, it’s pronounced ‘niece’ – as in the French city) offers a better solution.(...)Read the rest of Astronomy Without A Telescope – The Nice [...]

  • Hubble, Renewed, Reinvigorated, Raring to Go

    Updated: 2010-04-23 22:20:09
    Note: To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, for ten days, Universe Today has featured highlights from two year slices of the life of the Hubble, focusing on its achievements as an astronomical observatory. Today's article looks at the last two years, to April 2010. The stakes for the fifth, and final, Hubble [...]

  • Shock Waves, Volcanic Bombs From Eyjafjallajokull

    Updated: 2010-04-23 18:11:22
    The volcano in Iceland keeps producing eye-popping effects. Now that the ash isn't spewing quite so dramatically,the mouth of the volcano itself is visible. Here's close-up aerial footage of the crater at Eyjafjallajokull, with glowing red lava and shockwaves of the eruptions in the ash cloud. Incredible. If you haven't yet seen images [...]

  • Hubble's Birthday Gift to Us: Mystic Mountain

    Updated: 2010-04-23 18:11:21
    Happy 20th Birthday to the Hubble Space Telescope! While we should be showering HST with gifts, instead the telescope provides this present to us: an amazing view of what has been nicknamed "Mystic Mountain. " It is just a small portion of one of the largest known star-birth regions in the galaxy, [...]

  • Podcast: Rotation

    Updated: 2010-04-23 18:11:20
    Everything in the Universe is spinning. In fact, without this rotation, life on Earth wouldn't exist. We need the conservation of angular momentum to flatten out galaxies and solar systems, to make planets possible. Let's find out about the physics involved with everything that spins, and finally figure out the difference between centripetal and centrifugal [...]

  • LUCIFER allows astronomers to watch stars being born

    Updated: 2010-04-23 18:11:20
    The new instrument on the Large Binocular Telescope is a powerful tool that will gain spectacular insights into the universe — from the Milky Way to extremely distant galaxies

  • First Light for the Solar Dynamics Observatory

    Updated: 2010-04-23 06:01:37
    Skip to Main Content Header Visit NASA.gov Connect Contact Us Glossary Site Map Search Site Go Home Big Questions Earth Heliophysics Planets Astrophysics Missions About Us Science News NASA Science : Science News For Researchers Citizen Scientists For Educators For Students For Kids Home Science News Science NASA Headline News 2010 First Light for the Solar Dynamics Observatory First Light for the Solar Dynamics Observatory Play Audio Download Audio Join Mailing List April 21, : 2010 Warning , the images you are about to see could take your breath away . At a press conference today in Washington DC , researchers unveiled First Light images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory , a space telescope designed to study the sun . SDO is working beautifully , reports project scientist Dean

  • Click on Hubble: Galaxy Zoo Now Includes HST Images

    Updated: 2010-04-23 06:01:33
    The Hubble Space Telescope is 20 years old on Saturday and, to mark this anniversary, all the world's space and astronomy fans have a chance to become part of the Hubble team. As part of the birthday celebrations NASA’s Space Telescope Science Institute and the online astronomy project Galaxy Zoo are making some 200,000 Hubble images [...]

  • WITU 101

    Updated: 2010-04-23 06:01:31
    We're on to the next cto, yibai, cien, cento, hundred of Where In The Universe Challenges. You know what to do: take a look at this image and see if you can determine where in the universe this image is from; give yourself extra points if you can name the instrument responsible for the [...]

  • Stunning Look at ISS and Docked Disovery — From the Ground!

    Updated: 2010-04-22 22:00:10
    This has to be one of the clearest close-up shots of the International Space Station ever taken from the ground! Plus it has the added bonus of having space shuttle Discovery docked to the station. Ted Judah, who lives in northern California captured this image — one of 150 he took during the an [...]

  • Distant planet missing common ingredient

    Updated: 2010-04-22 22:00:10
    The Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered planet GJ 436B is methane-free.

  • New eye on the Sun delivers stunning first images

    Updated: 2010-04-22 17:51:09
    Images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory show never-before-seen detail and help scientists understand our Sun's dynamic processes.

  • VISTA captures celestial cat's hidden secrets

    Updated: 2010-04-21 21:40:11
    The view of NGC 6334 in the infrared is strikingly different from that in visible light. With the dust obscuring the view far less, scientists can learn more about how these stars form and develop in their first few million years of life.

  • Researchers study galaxy mergers

    Updated: 2010-04-21 21:40:09
    The largest galaxies in the universe are elliptical in shape, and how they formed is central to our understanding of how the universe has evolved over the past 15 billion years.

  • This Week in Space podcast

    Updated: 2010-04-10 15:01:51
    If you like space-related podcasts as I do , and haven’t seen this yet , you definitely should . A great new weekly podcast by Miles O’Brien well known of course as a former space correspondent for CNN . Covering a wide range of topics as only Miles can do , you can subscribe to it for free either on iTunes or YouTube Posted by Paul Scott Anderson on April 7, 2010 at 8:20 pm Spaceflight Now back to blog entries page Comments Widget

  • Interplanetary storm

    Updated: 2010-04-10 15:01:45
    David Bradley Science Writer A meteoric storm raged over the Earth 13,000 years ago as thousands of pieces of rock each the size of the Tunguska comet rained down over the course of an hour. The end result was a dramatic cooling of the planet, according to astronomer Bill Napier of the Cardiff University Astrobiology Centre. Writing [...]

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