Traces of recent water on Mars
Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Apr 29, 2014 -
The southern hemisphere of Mars is home to a crater that contains very well-preserved gullies and debris flow deposits. The geomorphological attributes of these landforms provide evidence that they were formed by the action of liquid water in geologically recent time.
When sediment on a slope becomes saturated with water, the mixture may become too heavy to remain in place, leading to a fl ...
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NASA Partners with LittleBits Electronics on STEM Activitie
New York NY (SPX) Apr 29, 2014 -
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Innovative Partnerships Office has entered into a Space Act Agreement with littleBits Electronics, Inc., New York, N.Y., to collaborate with the Aura Mission on activities to stimulate student interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
The activities in the littleBits Space Kit were designed and written by NASA scientists and eng ...
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Cosmic illusion revealed
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 29, 2014 -
A team of researchers led by Robert Quimby at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) has announced the discovery of a galaxy that magnified a background, Type Ia supernova thirtyfold through gravitational lensing. This is the first example of strong gravitational lensing of a supernova confirms the team's previous explanation for the unusual properties o ...
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When next Earth's magnetic field reverse begins and what consequences for mankind will it have?
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Apr 29, 2014 -
The University of Maryland possesses the world's largest spinning model of the Earth's interior. It is a stainless steel sphere ten feet in diameter that rapidly whirls and it is used for different geophysical experiments. One of them is being conducted by geophysicist Daniel Lathrop who tries to predict when the Earth's magnetic field will next reverse.
During the lifetime of our planet, ...
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Astronomical Forensics Uncover Planetary Disks in NASA's Hubble Archive
Baltimore MD (SPX) Apr 29, 2014 -
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have applied a new image processing technique to obtain near-infrared scattered light photos of five disks observed around young stars in the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes database. These disks are telltale evidence for newly formed planets.
If astronomers initially miss something in their review of data, they can make new discoveries ...
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ATK And Orbital Sciences Set To Merge
Arlington, VA (SPX) Apr 30, 2014 -
Alliant Techsystems reports that that its Board of Directors has unanimously approved a plan to create two independent, public companies with leadership in Outdoor Sports and Aerospace and Defense (A and D). The board approved a definitive agreement that provides for the tax-free spin-off of the Company's Sporting Group ("Sporting") to ATK shareholders.
The spin-off will be immediately fol ...
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Star Is Discovered To Be a Close Neighbor of the Sun and the Coldest of Its Kind
Philadelphia PA(SPX) Apr 29, 2014 -
A "brown dwarf" star that appears to be the coldest of its kind - as frosty as Earth's North Pole - has been discovered by a Penn State University astronomer using NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Spitzer Space Telescopes. Images from the space telescopes also pinpointed the object's distance at 7.2 light-years away, making it the fourth closest system to our Sun.
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