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NASA Sensors To Guide Spacecraft To Safe, Distant LandingsHampton VA (SPX) Aug 20, 2010 NASA is developing technologies that will allow landing vehicles to automatically identify and navigate to the location of a safe landing site while detecting landing hazards during the final descent to the surface. This is important because future missions - whether to the Moon, an asteroid, Mars or other location - will need this capability to land safely near specific resources that are located in potentially hazardous terrain. Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va., has designed three lig ... read more |
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Beijing (UPI) Aug 11, 2010 China launched a secret reconnaissance satellite with a Long March rocket Monday, the sixth satellite it has launched this year, authorities said. The mission lifted off aboard a Long March 4C rocket from the Taiyuan launching center in northern China's Shanxi province, SPACE.com reported. Independent tracking data showed the three-stage booster placing the satellite in an orbit ... more  
Caracas, Venezuela (UPI) Aug 10, 2010 Venezuela is close to acquiring Russian submarines but President Hugo Chavez isn't giving anything away - yet. He told the audience of his populist Sunday political sermon on Venezuela's state-run radio and television the submarines that are about to join the country's armed forces would be "normal" submersibles with conventional weapons and radar technology. "They won't have a ... more  
Columbus OH (SPX) Aug 12, 2010For the first time, scientists have been able to measure the amount of water that rises and falls annually in the Amazon River floodplain. The result - 285 billion metric tons, or 285 cubic kilometers of water by volume - sounds like a lot. That amount is over half the volume of Lake Erie, which is the world's 15th largest lake. But it accounts for only 5 percent of the water flowing ... more |
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Bedrock Is A Milestone In Climate ResearchKangerlussuaq, Greenland (SPX) Aug 10, 2010 After years of concentrated effort, scientists from the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) project hit bedrock more than 8,300 feet below the surface of the Greenland ice sheet last week. The project has yielded ice core samples that may offer valuable insights into how the world can change during periods of abrupt warming. Led by Denmark and the United States, and comprised of scientists from 14 countries, the NEEM team has been working to get at the ice near bedrock level because t ... read more |
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