News tagged with outer space
SpaceX's 'secret' payload? A wheel of cheese
In the historic launch of its Dragon space capsule Wednesday, Hawthorne, Calif.,-based rocket venture SpaceX didn't carry astronauts or cargo into outer space. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 12, 2010 |
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Shrinking atmospheric layer linked to low levels of solar radiation
Large changes in the sun's energy output may drive unexpectedly dramatic fluctuations in Earth's outer atmosphere.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 26, 2010 |
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Scientists pull Japanese asteroid capsule from Outback (Update, w/ Video)
Scientists in Australia's vast Outback on Monday recovered a capsule that they hope contains the first piece of asteroid ever brought to Earth -- perhaps offering a glimpse into ancient space history.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 14, 2010 |
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Land Ho! Huygens Plunged to Titan Surface 5 Years Ago
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Huygens probe parachuted down to the surface of Saturn's haze-shrouded moon Titan exactly five years ago on Jan. 14, 2005, providing data that scientists on NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 14, 2010 |
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Eclipses Yield First Images of Elusive Iron Line in Solar Corona
(PhysOrg.com) -- Solar physicists attempting to unlock the mysteries of the solar corona have found another piece of the puzzle by observing the sun’s outer atmosphere during eclipses.
Jan 04, 2010 |
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Latvian experts say meteorite crater was hoax (Update)
(AP) -- Scientists investigating a large crater initially believed to have been caused by a meteorite said a closer analysis Monday revealed it was a hoax.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Galileo's Jupiter Journey Began Two Decades Ago
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Galileo spacecraft began what would become a 14-year odyssey of exploration 20 years ago this Sunday, Oct. 18. Galileo was humanity's first emissary to orbit a planet in the outer solar ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Migrating Microbes
With every spacecraft that leaves Earth, millions of microbes hitch a ride into space. As astrobiologists search for life in other worlds, preventing forward and back contamination remains a key priority.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Solar Cycle Driven by More than Sunspots
(PhysOrg.com) -- Challenging conventional wisdom, new research finds that the number of sunspots provides an incomplete measure of changes in the Sun's impact on Earth over the course of the 11-year solar ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Astro_Mike: In space, everyone can hear you tweet
(AP) -- On Twitter, messages of 140 characters may seem confining. Mike Massimino is finding a different type of space even more limiting - outer space.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 14, 2009 |
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STEREO Reveals the Anatomy of a Solar Storm in 3D
(PhysOrg.com) -- Observations from NASA's twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft have allowed scientists to reveal for the first time the speed, trajectory, and three-dimensional shape of solar explosions ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 28, 2009 |
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The Surprising Shape of Solar Storms (w/Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Twin NASA spacecraft have provided scientists with their first view of the speed, trajectory, and three-dimensional shape of powerful explosions from the sun known as coronal mass ejections, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 14, 2009 |
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