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Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Chandra Sees a Surprisingly Bright Superbubble By Keith Cowing Posted August 31, 2012 12:43 PM View Comments NASA Large Magellanic Cloud This composite image shows a superbubble in the Large Magellanic Cloud LMC a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way located about 160,000 light years from . Earth Many new stars , some of them very massive , are forming in the star cluster NGC 1929, which is embedded in the nebula N44, so named because it is the 44th nebula in a catalog of such objects in the Magellanic Clouds
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Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Dune Migration on Mars By Keith Cowing Posted August 31, 2012 10:43 AM View Comments NASA UA HiRISE Large sand dunes in the North Polar sand sea on Mars This image shows large sand dunes in the North Polar sand sea on Mars . It is one of a series of repeat images of the same dunes , taken at different times , in order to determine the type and extent of changes in the dunes over . time Dunes tend to migrate slowly on Earth under continuous wind regimes on the order of several to tens of meters per year and we are
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Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Water Ice in Shackleton Crater's Walls By Keith Cowing Posted August 30, 2012 9:06 PM View Comments NASA Radar Data LRO's Mini-RF Scientists using the Mini-RF radar on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter LRO have estimated the maximum amount of ice likely to be found inside a permanently shadowed lunar crater located near the moon's South . Pole As much as five to ten percent of material , by weight , could be patchy ice , according to the team of researchers led by Bradley Thomson at Boston University's Center
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Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Space Quarterly Magazine September 2012 Table of Contents By Marc Boucher Posted August 30, 2012 10:32 AM View Comments SpaceRef Space Quarterly Magazine The September 2012 edition of Space Quarterly Magazine is scheduled to be published on Tuesday , September 4. Here are the table of contents for the U.S . and Canadian . editions Space Quarterly September 2012 U.S Edition Table of Contents Leaders Interview : Jim Armor , Major General retired ATK Space Systems , Satellite Servicing and Small Satellites Coming of
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Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Saturn and Titan By Keith Cowing Posted August 29, 2012 10:22 PM View Comments NASA JPL SSI Saturn and Titan as seen by Cassini Posing for portraits for NASA's Cassini spacecraft , Saturn and its largest moon , Titan , show spectacular colors in a quartet of images being released today . One image captures the changing hues of Saturn's northern and southern hemispheres as they pass from one season to the . next The images can be found at http : www.nasa.gov cassini http : saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and http :
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Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Curiosity Begins Eastbound Trek By Keith Cowing Posted August 29, 2012 10:19 PM View Comments NASA JPL Curiosity on the move NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has set off from its landing vicinity on a trek to a science destination about a quarter-mile 400 meters away , where it may begin using its . drill The rover drove eastward about 52 feet 16 meters on Tuesday , its 22nd Martian day after landing . This third drive was longer than Curiosity's first two drives combined . The previous drives tested the mobility
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NASA's WISE Survey Uncovers Millions Of Black Holes
"Images from the telescope have revealed millions of dusty black hole candidates across the universe and about 1,000 even dustier objects thought to be among the brightest galaxies ever found. These powerful galaxies that burn brightly with infrared light are nicknamed hot DOGs. "WISE has exposed a menagerie of hidden objects," said Hashima Hasan, WISE program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington."
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NASA Completes Maximum Parachute Test For Orion Spacecraft
"During the test, a C-130 airplane dropped a dart-shaped test vehicle with a simulated Orion parachute compartment from an altitude of 25,000 feet. Orion's drogue chutes were deployed at approximately 20,000 feet, followed by small pilot chutes, which then deployed the three main parachutes. Each of the main parachutes is 116 feet wide and weighs more than 300 pounds."
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NASA's 'Mighty Eagle' Robotic Prototype Lander Takes 100-Foot Free Flight (with video)
"During the 35-second run, the vehicle was "open loop" -- navigating autonomously without the command of the onboard camera and flying on a preprogrammed flight profile. Once it reached the 100-foot mark, the "Mighty Eagle" identified a new, larger target on the ground about 100 feet away, took pictures, processed the images and safely landed."
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NASA's Kepler Discovers Multiple Planets Orbiting a Pair of Stars
"NASA's Kepler mission has discovered multiple transiting planets orbiting two suns for the first time. The system, known as a circumbinary planetary system, is 4,900 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. Coming less than a year after the announcement of the first circumbinary planet, Kepler-16b, this discovery proves that more than one planet can form and persist in the stressful realm of a binary star."
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Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Multiple Planets Orbiting a Pair of Stars By Keith Cowing Posted August 28, 2012 8:32 PM View Comments NASA JPL-Caltech T . Pyle Kepler-47 NASA's Kepler mission has discovered multiple transiting planets orbiting two suns for the first time . The system , known as a circumbinary planetary system , is 4,900 light-years from Earth in the constellation . Cygnus Coming less than a year after the announcement of the first circumbinary planet , Kepler-16b , this discovery proves that more than one planet can form and
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This visible image of Tropical Storm Isaac taken from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite shows the huge extent of the storm, where the eastern-most clouds lie over the Carolinas and the western-most clouds are brushing east Texas.
The image was captured on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012 at 10:25 a.m. EDT. Image Credit: NASA GOES Project. Larger image
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Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Arctic Sea Ice At Record Low By Keith Cowing Posted August 27, 2012 3:30 PM View Comments Sea Ice Extent for 2012 NASA NSIDC The extent of the sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean has shrunk . According to scientists from NASA and the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center NSIDC in Boulder , Colo . the amount is the smallest size ever observed in the three decades since consistent satellite observations of the polar cap . began NASA and NSIDC scientists will host a media teleconference at 3 p.m . EDT ,
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Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets 41 New Transiting Planets in Kepler Field of View By Keith Cowing Posted August 27, 2012 12:14 PM View Comments Fermilab Kepler's Transiting Planets Two newly submitted studies verify 41 new transiting planets in 20 star systems . These results may increase the number of Kepler's confirmed planets by more than 50 percent : to 116 planets hosted in 67 systems , over half of which contain more than one planet . The papers are currently under scientific peer-review . The diagram shows the newly submitted transiting
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Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets Astronauts Searching for Life Underground By Keith Cowing Posted August 27, 2012 10:12 AM View Comments ESA Astronauts Exploring a Cave Astronauts dream of finding new life and for a select crew that dream might be within reach this week albeit deep underground instead of in outer . space An international crew of six astronauts will start training for a caving adventure designed to prepare them for . spaceflight CAVES , an abbreviation of Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising human behaviour and
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Home About SpaceRef NASA Watch OnOrbit Commercial Space Watch SpaceRef Canada SpaceRef Europe SpaceRef Asia Astrobiology Loading Missions Space Station Calendar News Archives Space Weather Space Quarterly Magazine Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Pluto Asteroids Comets The First Human to Walk on the Moon has Died Neil Armstrong Dead at 82 By Marc Boucher Posted August 25, 2012 3:45 PM View Comments NASA Neil Armstrong Mulitple sources in and around NASA and the space community confirm to SpaceRef that Neil Armstrong , the first human to walk on another world , has died at the age of 82. This is a hinge in . history Statement from the Family of Neil A . Armstrong We are heartbroken to share the news that Neil Armstrong has passed away following complications resulting from
