Mars atmosphere, lost in space

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has revealed that a light variant of the gas argon is relatively depleted in Martian air, bolstering a longstanding belief that the Red Planet's current atmosphere — which is just 1 percent as thick as that of Earth — is a ...

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Posts Tagged: space mining ... Posted April 8, 2013 by themachine & filed under The Machine's Space Update. Things are getting interesting at NASA. Former ...

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NASA Sets TV Coverage for Antares Test Flight

NASA's commercial partner, Orbital Sciences Corporation of Dulles, Va., is scheduled to launch its first Antares rocket from Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A at the agency's Wallops Flight Facility on Wednesday, April 17.

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NASA TV Provides Coverage of Space Station Cargo Ship Activities

NASA Television will broadcast an unpiloted Russian cargo ship's departure from the International Space Station on April 15 and the launch and docking of another April 24 and 26.

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The company plans to be the first company able to carry tourists into space, customers will ... What is the nature and plan for the new plunge into space tourism?

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NASA and STScI Select 17 Hubble Fellows for 2013

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NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) have announced the selection of 17 new Hubble Fellows. The Hubble Fellowship Program now includes all research relevant to present and future missions in NASA's Cosmic Origins theme. These missions currently include the Herschel Space Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), and the Spitzer Space Telescope. STScI in Baltimore, Md., administers the Hubble Fellowship Program for NASA.



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The beginning of the universe, for beginners - Tom Whyntie

CERN physicist Tom Whyntie shows how cosmologists and particle physicists explore these questions by replicating the heat, energy, and activity of the first few seconds of our universe, from right after the Big Bang. Lesson by Tom Whyntie, animation by ...

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Communication with Curiosity Halted in Wake of Mars Solar Conjunction

Chris Potts, the NASA's Mission Manager for the Mars Odyssey rover, said they have a good experience of dealing with such phenomenon; however, presence of Curiosity on Mars will be a little different thing to happen this year. The conjunction is ... See all stories on this topic »

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Most of Mars' Atmosphere Is Lost in Space

The planet Mars lost most of its original atmosphere long ago when huge amounts of gas escaped into space, leaving only a wispy remnant behind, scientists say. NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has revealed that a light variant of the gas argon is relatively ...

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Amazing Mars Rover Curiosity's Martian Views (Latest Photos)

Mission controllers won't send any commands to the agency's Opportunity rover, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) or Mars Odyssey orbiter from today (April 9) through April 26. The blackout is even longer for NASA's car-size Curiosity rover, which is ...

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Mars Atmosphere Gradually Lost to Space, Curiosity Rover Data Shows

Evidence delivered by the Mars Rover Curiosity instruments support the theory that Mars lost much of its original atmosphere by a process of gas escaping from the top of the atmosphere. Rover team members reported diverse findings on Monday at the ...

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Curiosity Rover Offers Proof Mars' Atmosphere Has Thinned Over Time

(Photo : REUTERS/NASA/Handout) NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is pictured in this February 3, 2013 handout self-portrait obtained by Reuters February 9, 2013. Just months after launch, scientists believe the rover may have proven that Mars once had a ... See all stories on this topic »

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Curiosity may have found building blocks of life on Mars: Study

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has gathered evidence for the presence of perchlorates — salts believed to be building blocks for early life — on the Red Planet. Scientists say the perchlorates found in Rocknest — a sand patch inside the rover's Gale ... See all stories on this topic »

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Mars rover Curiosity's measurements of Martian atmosphere reveal how ...

In order to carry out its measurements, Curiosity used one of its two onboard laboratories, the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) tool. This conducted its analysis of the Martian atmosphere by first flushing out all the gases that were already present in ...

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Researchers at CERN take most precise measure of magnetic moment of ...

To do that in this latest effort, the research team took equipment that had been developed to measure the magnetic moment of a proton to CERN—it's one of the few places antiprotons can be had. But that was only the beginning, the team had to first ...

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Chemically synthesised In(Zn)P alloy nanocrystals are doped with Eu3+ ions using europium oleate as a molecular precursor and subsequently covered with a ...

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Lockheed Martin may have developed a working quantum computer, the D-Wave . ... taking computing into the strange, subatomic realm of quantum mechanics.

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Retired star found with planets and debris disc

ESA’s Herschel space observatory has provided the first images of a dust belt – produced by colliding comets or asteroids – orbiting a subgiant star known to host a planetary system.



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Asteroid Mining Startups | International Space Fellowship

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Your questions answered: asteroid mining | In-depth | The Engineer

Our expert panel answers your questions on whether the costs and challenges of mining asteroids be overcome to create new space-based industries?

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Asteroid Mining: Deep Space Mining for Resources |

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Dark Matter Discovery Closer Than Ever With New Cosmic Ray Observations

“Over the coming months, AMS will be able to tell us conclusively whether these positrons are a signal for dark matter, or whether they have some other origin,” spokesman Samuel Ting said in a statement released by CERN. Dark matter earned its name ...

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Quantum physics and paranormal phenomena | Inquirer Lifestyle

But what is quantum physics also known as particle physics and quantum mechanics From a layman's standpoint it is the branch of physics that deals with the ...

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Space Tourism project to be launched in Tozeur

Minister of Tourism Jamel Gamra learnt on Thursday in Tozeur about the components of a new tourist project to be launched in this governorate by a French ...

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Space Tourism | Future Blast

Space tourism is a term employed to mean ordinary people purchasing tickets for travelling to ... futureblast.com/tag/space-tourism/

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Space Tourism - GermantownNOW

Of those, twenty-two will be selected for a short trip into sub-orbital space. This promotion is only one example of the rapidly expanding trend of space tourism, ...

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Asteroid Mining: Deep Space Mining for Resources |

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space mining Archives - Philip Metzger

Others want to mine asteroids. Here's a brief survey of the Who and the Where. At the most recent count, I found eight companies with a focus on space mining.

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