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1. Comet Whacked Neptune 230 Years Ago

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   Neptune. Credit: NASA Researchers studying Neptune's atmosphere found evidence that a comet may have hit the planet about two centuries ago. Was this a "cold-case" file re-opened, or did ... Wednesday, 21 July 2010

2. Comet Whacked Neptune 200 Years Ago

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   Neptune. Credit: NASA Researchers studying Neptune's atmosphere found evidence that a comet may have hit the planet about two centuries ago. Was this a "cold-case" file re-opened, or did ... Wednesday, 21 July 2010

3. Best Reality TV Ever: Camera Will Take Video of Next Mars Rover Landing

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   This graphic portrays the sequence of key events in August 2012 from the time the NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, with its rover Curiosity, enters the Martian atmosphere to a moment after it ... Monday, 19 July 2010

4. Hubble Confirms Comet-like Tail on Vaporizing Planet

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   ... is behaving like a Jupiter-sized comet, losing its atmosphere in a huge plume due to the powerful solar wind of its too-close star.(...) Read the rest of Hubble Confirms Comet-like Tail on Vaporizing Planet ... Thursday, 15 July 2010

5. Farewell Lutetia

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   ... of the asteroid's surface crust, record the solar wind in the vicinity and look for evidence of an atmosphere. The spacecraft passed the asteroid at a minimum distance of 3,160 kilometers (1,950 miles) ... Monday, 12 July 2010

6. Dying Star or Beautiful Bird?

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   ... shedding its outer atmosphere. The cloud around this bright star is called IRAS 19475+3119. It lies in the constellation of Cygnus (the Swan) about 15, 000 light-years from Earth in the plane of our ... Monday, 12 July 2010

7. Solar-Powered Airplane Attempts First Night Flight

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   ... now, cross fingers, everything is going well. The sky is completely clear, (pilot) Andre (Borscherg) is warm, and so he is looking forward to getting to a higher atmosphere, of 13,000 feet. " (...) ... Wednesday, 07 July 2010

8. Icy Triton

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   ... satellite of Neptune and is one of the few bodies in the solar system known to have a nitrogen-dominated atmosphere. The others are Earth and Saturn's giant moon, Titan. Triton is so cold that most of ... Monday, 05 July 2010

9. Zapping Titan-Like Atmosphere with UV Creates Life Precursors

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   ... for the chemistry of pre-life Earth. (...) Read the rest of Zapping Titan-Like Atmosphere with UV Creates Life Precursors (732 words) © nancy for Universe Today, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add ... Tuesday, 29 June 2010

10. Climate Change Contributes to Space Junk Problem

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    ... the space environment. New Scientist reports that increased carbon dioxide levels are cooling the upper atmosphere, which decreases the atmospheric density. This in turn affects how long defunct satellites, ... Friday, 25 June 2010

11. Astronomers Watch Superstorm Raging on Distant Exoplanet

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    ...  Not only is this extra solar planet a scorchingly hot world where the poisonous atmosphere is being evaporated, but new observations show this gas giant also has superstorms with winds of 5,000 to 10,000 ... Wednesday, 23 June 2010

12. A Light in the Sky

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    The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa spacecraft streaked across the sky like a saber of light through the clouds as it re-entered Earth’s atmosphere over the Woomera Test Range in Australia. ... Monday, 21 June 2010

13. It's Noctilucent Cloud Season!

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    ... the beautiful, awe inspiring atmospheric phenomena called Noctilucent Clouds, or night shining clouds. They aren't like regular cumulus or cirrus clouds, but are mysterious and unique high atmosphere ... Thursday, 17 June 2010

14. Hayabusa Sample Return Capsule Retrieved

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    ... before reaching Earth, where the sample canister flew through Earth's atmosphere, preceding the spacecraft which broke up in spectacular fashion (click here to see the video) over the Australian Outback. ... Monday, 14 June 2010

15. Man-Made Aurora Will Help to Better Predict Space Weather

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    The Aurora Borealis seen in Alaska. New experiments that create a man-made aurora are helping researchers better understand how nitrogen in our atmosphere reacts when it is bombarded by the solar wind. ... Monday, 07 June 2010

16. Rhapsody in Black

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    This silhouette of Saturn was taken by the Cassini spacecraft on Feb. 13, 2010. Although the sun is eclipsed by Saturn in this dramatic image, some sunlight scatters through the uppermost part of the atmosphere ... Sunday, 06 June 2010

17. Astronomy Without A Telescope – Exoplanet Weather Report

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    A detailed literature review by Showman et al available on arXiv, outlines the scant observational data available on exoplanet atmospheres and then explores in detail what exoplanet atmospheres might be ... Saturday, 05 June 2010

18. The Walt Whitman Meteor Mystery

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    ... through the Earth's atmosphere and back out into interplanetary space without ever striking the ground. A meteor procession occurs when a meteor breaks up upon entering the atmosphere, creating multiple ... Wednesday, 02 June 2010

19. LightSail: Firming Up The Spacecraft Design

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    ... miles) above Earth, beyond the first-order effects of the atmosphere, where we can test the sail's performance in space. LightSail-2 will move farther away from Earth, and with LightSail-3 we hope to ... Monday, 31 May 2010

20. Europa's Churn Leads To Oxygen Burn

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    ... oxygen became plentiful in the atmosphere, and that delay gave organisms plenty of time to develop genetic mechanisms and physical structures that allowed them to use oxygen, instead of being destroyed ... Monday, 31 May 2010