LEXINGTON, Mass. — A satellite that previously tracked incoming ballistic missiles is now using its MIT-built optical sensor to survey deep space. It has found or recovered more than 100 […]
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Special Preview Offers Media an Inside Look at Space Age Technologies
Linda Matthews-Schmidt/Gina Johnson Johnson Space Center, TX (281) 483-5111 Release: J00-70 WHAT: Media representatives are invited to see first-hand how NASA technology benefits life on Earth during a preview of […]
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Shuttle Main Engine Test Investigation Points to Fuel Cell System Contamination
Kirsten Larson Headquarters, Washington, DC (Phone: 202/358-0243) June Malone Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL (Phone: 256/544-0034) Lanee Cooksey Stennis Space Center, MS (Phone: 228/688-1957) RELEASE 00-170 A detailed review […]
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New Results On Martian Meteorite Support Hypothesis That Life Can Jump Between Planets
According to one version of the "panspermia" theory, life on Earth could originally have arrived here by way of meteorites from Mars, where conditions early in the history of the […]
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When is a planet not a planet? Researchers see stars instead
Office of News & Information University of PittsburghPittsburgh, Pennsylvania Contact:John Fedele, fedele@univ-relations.pitt.edu, 412-624-4148 More than half of the recently detected extrasolar planets appear not to be planetary objects at all, according […]
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A New Companion to Asteroid Pulcova
An international team1 (including a CNRS researcher) has just discovered a moonlet orbiting around asteroid Pulcova. The observations were made on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CNRS-CNRC-University of Hawaii) thanks to the […]
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NASA to Announce Mars Robotic Exploration Plan Oct. 26
NASA’s overall plan for Mars exploration over the next two decades will be announced at a press briefing at 1 p.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 26, at NASA Headquarters, located at […]
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Stephan’s Quintet – A Mammoth Cosmic Collision (composite)
Note: Images online at http://sci.esa.int/hubble/news/index.cfm?oid=24980 A spectacular new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the group of galaxies called Stephan’s Quintet provides a detailed view of one of […]
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NASA Instrument Provides New Tools for Atmospheric Studies
Scientists have developed new methods of retrieving information about cloud heights, winds, airborne particles, and Earth’s surface using data from the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument orbiting on NASA’s Terra […]
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Global Coral Reef Monitoring Now Feasible with New Landsat 7 Data Archive
Allen Kenitzer (Phone: 301/286-2806) Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. Lynn Chandler (Phone: 301/614-5562) Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. Colette Glover-Hannah University of South Florida, Tampa (Phone: 813/974-6996) Release […]
