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Scientists take a giant step forward in understanding plutonium
Plutonium is the most complex element in the periodic table, yet it is also one of the most poorly understood ones. But now a well-known scientific technique, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, ...
May 23, 2012 |
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Space probes will be more useful with new amplifiers
Researchers at Chalmers have developed a new generation of amplifiers, which the European Space Agency (ESA) will be using throughout the world to receive signals from its space probes and satellites. ESA ...
Apr 26, 2012 |
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Amazon aims to wring deep discounts from publishers
The bad news came to McFarland & Co. in an email from Amazon.com Inc. The world's largest Internet retailer wanted better wholesale terms for the small publisher's books. Starting Jan. 1, 2012 - then only 19 days away - Amazon ...
Apr 06, 2012 |
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Watching space weather through the MAGIC of CubeSat CINEMA
(PhysOrg.com) -- A trio of CubeSats that will study the effects of space weather on the Earth’s radiation belts and magnetic field are being prepared for launch. TRIO-CINEMA is a collaboration between ...
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Mar 27, 2012 |
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Artificial comet contains building blocks of life
The first molecules of life form naturally in comets, reveals a French-German study led by Uwe Meierhenrich and Cornelia Meinert at the Institut de Chimie de Nice and by Louis Le Sergeant d'Hendecourt at the ...
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Mar 21, 2012 |
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Rosetta's first glimpse of the comet
Three years before its arrival the camera system on board the space probe Rosetta renders the first images of its destination.
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Jun 08, 2011 |
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Rosetta to sleep through loneliest leg of comet mission
On 8 June, mission controllers will have the first opportunity to switch ESA's Rosetta comet-hunter into deep-space hibernation for 31 months. During this loneliest leg of its decade-long mission, Rosetta ...
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Jun 06, 2011 |
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When is a comet not a comet? Rosetta finds out
(PhysOrg.com) -- It was a case of celestial hit and run. Two asteroids, both in the wrong place at the wrong time. The result: one big trail of debris and a case of mistaken identity. Now, however, ESA’s ...
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Oct 14, 2010 |
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Landing site for Rosetta going South
Scientists have determined that ESA's Rosetta mission needs to deliver its lander to a site in the southern hemisphere of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. A site in this region will be the safest and most ...
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Sep 27, 2010 |
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ESA's Rosetta comet-chaser goes LEGO
(PhysOrg.com) -- What does a scientist do to visualise a space journey? Build a model, of course. A model of Europe's Rosetta comet-chaser made out of LEGO blocks started out in this small way and has grown ...
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Sep 22, 2010 |
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European probe Rosetta flies by asteroid: ESA (w/ Video)
The European spacecraft Rosetta performed a fly-by of a massive asteroid, the European Space Agency said, taking images that could one day help Earth defend itself from destruction.
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Jul 11, 2010 |
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Rosetta lines up for spectacular asteroid flyby
(PhysOrg.com) -- On 10 July, ESA's Rosetta will fly past 21 Lutetia, the largest asteroid ever visited by a satellite. After weeks of manoeuvres and a challenging optical navigation campaign, Rosetta is perfectly ...
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Jul 08, 2010 |
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Rosetta's blind date with asteroid Lutetia
ESA's comet-chaser Rosetta is heading for a blind date with asteroid Lutetia. Rosetta does not yet know what Lutetia looks like but beautiful or otherwise the two will meet on 10 July.
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Jun 15, 2010 |
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Rosetta 'Alice' spectrometer reveals Earth's ultraviolet fingerprint in Earth flyby
On Nov. 13, the European Space Agency's comet orbiter spacecraft, Rosetta, swooped by Earth for its third and final gravity assist on the way to humankind's first rendezvous to orbit and study a comet in more ...
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Jan 14, 2010 |
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Rosetta bound for outer Solar System after final Earth swingby (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- This morning, mission controllers confirmed that ESA’s comet chaser Rosetta had swung by Earth at 8:45 CET as planned, skimming past our planet to pick up a gravitational boost for an epic ...
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Nov 13, 2009 |
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