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Rock And Roll: Titan's Gem TumblerPasadena CA (JPL) May 13, 2010 It appears flash flooding has paved streambeds in the Xanadu region of Saturn's moon Titan with thousands of sparkling crystal balls of ice, according to scientists with NASA's Cassini spacecraft. By analyzing the way the terrain has scattered radar beams, scientists deduce the spheres measure at least a few centimeters (inches) and maybe up to a couple of meters (yards) in diameter. The spheres likely originated as part of water-ice bedrock in higher terrain in Xanadu. "What we believe happened i ... read more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Apr 28, 2010These ESA Envisat images capture the oil that is spilling into the Gulf of Mexico after a drilling rig exploded and sank off the coasts of Louisiana and Mississippi, USA, on 22 April. In the black-and-white radar image the oil spill is visible as a dark grey whirl in the bottom right, while in the optical image it is seen as a white whirl. The Mississippi Delta is at top left, and the Delt ... more  
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 27, 2010In the latest outing for the Star Trek movie franchise, the young James T Kirk races the newly commissioned USS Enterprise at maximum warp speed back to the solar system. Kirk must rescue the Earth from the ravages of the driller killer machine that the maverick Romulan Nero has already used to destroy the planet Vulcan. Ensign Chekhov suggests that they hide the Enterprise within the Satu ... more 
Paris, France (ESA) Apr 26, 2010Taking advantage of NASA's 'Operation Ice Bridge' campaign, measurements of Arctic sea ice have been made from an aircraft flying directly under CryoSat-2's orbital path. These measurements offer an early opportunity to check the quality of the newly launched CryoSat-2 satellite data over sea ice. Following the launch of ESA's CryoSat-2 ice mission 8 April, the satellite's Synthetic Apertu ... more |
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Apollo 13 - NASA's Successful FailureSchriever AFB CO (SPX) Apr 21, 2010 April marks the 40th Anniversary of the failed Apollo 13 mission and the near loss of its astronauts, James Lovell, John "Jack" Swigert, and Fred Haise. Apollo 13 was NASA's third moon shot, following the Apollo 11 lunar landing on July 20, 1969, which was repeated by Apollo 12 on Nov. 19, 1969. The mission, however, was plagued by challenges. Three days before the April 11, 1970 launch, crew member and command module pilot Thomas K. "Ken" Mattingly was removed from the mission. He had been expose ... read more |
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