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1. Fractured

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   ... abundant small ripples of wind-blown material. However, a pit in the floor of the crater has exposed light-toned, fractured rock. The light-toned material appears fractured at several different scales. ... Thursday, 22 July 2010

2. Europa Analog Deep-Sea Vents Discovered in the Caribbean

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   ... allowing mantle rocks to melt and emerge at the surface as lava. Seawater, percolating through the hot rocks at these spreading centers, is superheated and emerges at vents, bearing a rich bounty of dissolved ... Thursday, 22 July 2010

3. Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast: July 16-19, 2010

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   Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Are you ready for a rock the night weekend? Then come along as you won't need a telescope to watch the movement of the planets and the Perseid meteor shower heating ... Friday, 16 July 2010

4. Senate's New NASA Plan: Heavy Lift, Extra Shuttle Mission, Less Commericial and Tech Development

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   The U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation today unanimously approved legislation that would add a shuttle mission and jump start work on a heavy-lift rocket next year. The NASA Reauthorization ... Thursday, 15 July 2010

5. Aerojet AJ26 Rocket Engine Arrives at Stennis

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   An Aerojet AJ26 rocket engine was delivered to NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center on July 15, 2010. This is the first of a series of Taurus II engines to be tested at Stennis to include acceptance testing ... Wednesday, 14 July 2010

6. External Tank for Final Scheduled Shuttle Mission Arrives at KSC (Gallery)

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   ... drive-by of some segments of used shuttle solid rocket boosters. (...) Read the rest of External Tank for Final Scheduled Shuttle Mission Arrives at KSC (Gallery) (239 words) © nancy for Universe ... Wednesday, 14 July 2010

7. Smoother Landings

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   ... technology demonstrator rocket engine, increasing the throttling capability by 35 percent over previous tests. This test series demonstrated this engine could go from a thrust range of 104 percent power ... Wednesday, 07 July 2010

8. Graphite 'Whiskers' Found in Apollo Moon Rocks

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   ...  Credit: A. Steele, et al. Long-held secrets continue to be unlocked from the Moon. Researchers taking a new look at a rock brought back by the Apollo 17 mission have discovered graphite in the form ... Thursday, 01 July 2010

9. A Rover Gets Its Wheels

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   ... Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Curiosity's six-wheel mobility system, with a rocker-bogie suspension system, resembles the systems on earlier, smaller Mars rovers, but for Curiosity, the wheels ... Wednesday, 30 June 2010

10. Climate Change Contributes to Space Junk Problem

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    Artists rendition of an explosion from an upper stage of a rocket. Credit: ESA The effects of climate change can be seen across the majority of the planet, but a new study reveals it is also affecting ... Friday, 25 June 2010

11. Earth Moved Substantially in April 2010 Earthquake

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    ... in Earth's surface caused by a major earthquake — the magnitude 7.2 temblor that rocked Mexico's state of Baja California and parts of the American Southwest on April 4, 2010. The data ... Wednesday, 23 June 2010

12. NASA Day on the Hill

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    ... the Hill in the Rayburn Foyer, Rayburn House Office Building, on June 23, 2010. Pictured is Scarab, a new generation lunar rover designed to assist astronauts take rock and mineral samples and explore ... Tuesday, 22 June 2010

13. Fully Functional Pan-STARRS is now Panning for Stars, Asteroids and Comets

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    ... sleuth for not just potential incoming space rocks, but also supernovae and other variable objects. "Pan-STARRS is an all-purpose machine," said Harvard astronomer Edo Berger. "Having a ... Wednesday, 16 June 2010

14. Expedition 24 Heads to the Station

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    The Soyuz TMA-19 rocket launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, June 16, 2010, carrying Expedition 24 NASA astronauts Shannon Walker and Douglas Wheelock, and Soyuz Commander ... Tuesday, 15 June 2010

15. 100th Launch to the International Space Station

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    ... of space station assembly, resupply and crew exchanges. The rocket lit up the early morning sky in Kazakhstan at 3:35 a.m. Wednesday local time, (5:35:19 p.m. EDT and 9:35 pm GMT on Tuesday). The Soyuz ... Tuesday, 15 June 2010

16. Tooth Extraction With a Rocket

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    All that needs to be said is that this is the greatest You Tube video I have ever seen. © nancy for Universe Today, 2010. | Permalink | 2 comments | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: amatuer rocketry ... Tuesday, 15 June 2010

17. Unusual Views of the Soyuz Rocket

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    ... Space Station later today, and astronauts Douglas Wheelock has been able to get up close and personal with the Soyuz rocket that will take them there. He's taken a few pictures of his rocket from ... Tuesday, 15 June 2010

18. Shooting for the Moon

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    This image from 1967 shows the S-II stage of the Saturn V rocket as it was hoisted onto the A-2 test stand at the Mississippi Test Facility (now the Stennis Space Center). This was the second stage of ... Monday, 14 June 2010

19. Water Could Be Widespread in Moon's Interior

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    Moon rocks from the Apollo 11 mission. Credit: NASA A new look at Moon rocks from the Apollo missions, along with a lunar meteorite show a much higher water content in the Moon's interior than ... Monday, 14 June 2010

20. South Korean Rocket Explodes 137 Seconds Into Flight

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    A South Korean rocket carrying a climate observation satellite apparently exploded 137 seconds into its flight early Thursday. The two-stage Naro rocket operated normally during and after liftoff from ... Thursday, 10 June 2010