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Mars More Like Earth Than Thought? New Details About History Of Water On Red Planet
New details have emerged about the history of water on Mars, gleaned from the 2008 NASA Phoenix Mars Mission. Scientists found patterns in the ground near the lander, multi-sided shapes about three to ten meters in size. The shapes are created when the surface contracts and the ice cracks. Sand fills in the cracks before the ice expands and buckles the surface to make the distinctive patterns.
ScienceDaily: Space & Time News, Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:12:24 GMT

Return To The Moon: First Images Kick Off Mapping Mission
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera has taken and received its first images of the Moon, kicking off the year-long mapping mission of Earth's nearest celestial neighbor.
ScienceDaily: Space & Time News, Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:12:24 GMT

New Class Of Pulsars Solve Mystery Of Previously Unidentified Gamma-ray Sources
A new class of pulsars detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is solving the mystery of previously unidentified gamma-ray sources and helping scientists understand the mechanisms behind pulsar emissions.
ScienceDaily: Space & Time News, Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:12:24 GMT

Global warming tactic cools climate but won`t help corals, say researchers
(PhysOrg.com) -- `Geoengineering` experiments proposed to reduce global warming by blocking sunlight with atmosphere-injected particles may cool the world but still leave carbon dioxide levels dangerously high, Stanford scientists say.
PHYSorg.com: Space & Earth News, Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:12:24 GMT

Coolest spacecraft ever in orbit around L2
(PhysOrg.com) -- Last night, the detectors of Planck's High Frequency Instrument reached their amazingly low operational temperature of -273°C, making them the coldest known objects in space. The spacecraft has also just entered its final orbit around the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system, L2.
PHYSorg.com: Space & Earth News, Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:12:24 GMT

Senator may have won fight over private rocket manufacturing
For months, a powerful Republican senator from Alabama has fought the Obama administration to block $150 million that the White House wanted to spend to help private companies build rockets capable of reaching the international space station.
PHYSorg.com: Space & Earth News, Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:12:24 GMT

Mars data published in Science this week
Four papers in the journal Science this week offer new details about the history of water on Mars, gleaned from the 2008 NASA Phoenix Mars Mission that was operated from The University of Arizona.
PHYSorg.com: Space & Earth News, Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:12:24 GMT

Wild Fireworks Spotted in Space
New image of a gaseous space nebula reveals tens of thousands of giant comet-like knots raining down.
SPACE.com, Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:12:24 GMT

NASA Probe Looks at Bright Side of Mars
NASA shifted the orbit of its Mars satellite Odyssey to make better use of its infrared camera for mapping the surface.
SPACE.com, Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:12:24 GMT

'Toy Universe' Could Solve Life's Origins
The power of computer processing could one day solve the riddle of life's origin.
SPACE.com, Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:12:24 GMT

Military Seeks Common Ground with Scientists on Fireball Data Flap
The Air Force Space Command is "circling the wagons" to close some loopholes in the dissemination of potentially sensitive information.
SPACE.com, Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:12:24 GMT

Space Station Marathon
The International Space Station (ISS) is about to make a remarkable series of flybys over the United States. Beginning this 4th of July weekend, the station will appear once, twice, and sometimes three times a day for many days in a row.
Science @ NASA, Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:12:25 GMT

Space Station Room With a View
Astronauts are looking forward to an unprecedented view of the cosmos when the largest window ever built for space is installed on the International Space Station.
Science @ NASA, Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:12:25 GMT

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