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1. The Mystery Of Moonwater

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... solar system. Then reports of moonwater started "pouring" in - starting with estimates of scant amounts on the lunar surface, then gallons in a single crater, and now 600 million metric tons distributed ... Thursday, 18 March 2010

2. Newly Discovered Planet Could Hold Water

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... those of Jupiter and Saturn in our own Solar System. ... Thursday, 18 March 2010

3. Finally, a "Normal" Exoplanet

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... liquid water. Corot-9b orbits a sun-like star at a distance similar to Mercury – one of the largest orbits of any extrasolar planet yet found, and may have an interior that closely resembles Jupiter and ... Thursday, 18 March 2010

4. This is Getting Boring: General Relativity Passes Yet another Big Test!

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... (GR) passed its first big test just a few years later, when the predicted gravitational deflection of light passing near the Sun was observed during the 1919 solar eclipse. In 1960, GR passed its first ... Thursday, 18 March 2010

5. Astronomers Observe Fast Growing Primitive Black Holes

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... billion solar masses and rotating around the super massive black hole is a disc of gas and dust. The inner ring of the disc moves faster than the outer rings. ... Wednesday, 17 March 2010

6. Interrogating The Asteroid

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 17, 2010 - Meet asteroid 1999 RQ36, a chunk of rock and dust about 1,900 feet in diameter that could tell us how the solar system was born, and perhaps, shed light on how life ... Tuesday, 16 March 2010

7. New Images Unlock Secrets of Jupiter's Red Spot

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... on another planet. "This is our first detailed look inside the biggest storm of the solar system," said Glenn Orton, a senior research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "We ... Tuesday, 16 March 2010

8. Shocking Recipe For Making Killer Electrons

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   Paris, France (SPX) Mar 16, 2010 - Take a bunch of fast-moving electrons, place them in orbit and then hit them with the shock waves from a solar storm. What do you get? Killer electrons. That's the ... Monday, 15 March 2010

9. Space Available On Lunar Expeditions

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... the expedition's lander or its solar-powered robot. ... Monday, 15 March 2010

10. The Great Conveyor Belt Of Sol Running Fast

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 15, 2010 - NASA solar physicist David Hathaway reports that the top of the sun's Great Conveyor Belt has been running at record-high speeds for the past five years. "I believe ... Sunday, 14 March 2010

11. Gemini – Twins Everywhere!

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... zodiac which means the imaginary path the Sun, Moon and planets follow across the sky passes through the stars of this constellation. But what happens when you don't have these solar systems objects ... Sunday, 14 March 2010

12. Astronomy for Kids: Gemini – Twins Everywhere!

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... zodiac which means the imaginary path the Sun, Moon and planets follow across the sky passes through the stars of this constellation. But what happens when you don't have these solar systems objects ... Sunday, 14 March 2010

13. Snapshot of the International Space Station

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... signal it transmits. Smooth surfaces such as those on the station's solar generators or the radiator panels used to dissipate excess heat, unless directly facing the radar antenna, tend to deflect rather ... Tuesday, 09 March 2010

14. Astronomy Without A Telescope – The Hitchhikers Guide To The Solar System

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    Short on fuel, but good at astrophysics? It is possible to tour the solar system on less than 30 Altairian dollars a day by using the Interplanetary Transport Network (ITN).(...) Read the rest of Astronomy ... Saturday, 06 March 2010

15. USAF Eyes Mini-Thrusters For Use In Satellite Propulsion

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... the latest CubeSats, to perform space maneuvers and undertake formidable tasks like searching for planets beyond our solar system. ... Wednesday, 03 March 2010

16. Scientists now listen to the solar wind

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    Ann Arbor, Mich. (UPI) Mar 2, 2009 - U.S. scientists say they have "sonified" solar wind data, allowing researchers to listen to the solar wind that's usually represented as numbers or graphs. ... Tuesday, 02 March 2010

17. How To Hunt For Exoplanets

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2010 - A new report launched by the Institute of Physics (IOP) Exoplanets - The search for planets beyond our solar system explains how new technological advances have seen ... Tuesday, 02 March 2010

18. Phoenix Still Silent as Martian Ice Recedes

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... and disappearance of ice at her location in the martian north polar regions. In theory, the return of abundant sunshine striking the twin energy producing solar arrays could again power up the science ... Monday, 01 March 2010

19. LockMart Solar X-ray Imager To Be Launched On NOAA GOES-P

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    Palo Alto CA (SPX) Mar 02, 2010 - The Solar X-ray Imager (SXI) instrument, designed and built by Lockheed Martin at its Space Systems Advanced Technology Center (ATC) is ready for flight. ... Monday, 01 March 2010

20. First Measurement Of The Age Of Cometary Material

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    Livermore, CA (SPX) Mar 01, 2010 - Though comets are thought to be some of the oldest, most primitive bodies in the solar system, new research on comet Wild 2 indicates that inner solar system material ... Sunday, 28 February 2010