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November 6th, 2009 - 8:03 pm ICT by GD
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By Ranjan Bhaduri
Washington, Nov. 6, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The NASA's Mercury venture has given another insight to the scientists regarding the allegedly densest planet in our system. NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, which took its ...
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November 5th, 2009 - 5:24 pm ICT by ANI
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Melbourne, Nov 5 (ANI): Laser-powered space elevators are taking part in a NASA-backed competition in the Mojave Desert.
The Space Elevator Games are held to find the best way to send a robotic ...
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November 5th, 2009 - 2:20 pm ICT by ANI
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London, November 5 (ANI): NASA's spacecraft Messenger has detected rich concentrations of iron and titanium on the surface of the planet Mercury.
Previous Earth and spacecraft-based observations had detected only very low amounts ...
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October 31st, 2009 - 1:47 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, October 31 (ANI): NASA's Kepler mission, which would search for planets around other stars, is unlikely to detect any Earth-like exoplanets before 2011 due to an electronic glitch.
According to a report ...
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October 29th, 2009 - 12:24 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, October 29 (ANI): Two international teams of astronomers have reported their observations of what they refer to as the 'last blank space on the map of the Universe', namely, a gamma-ray ...
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October 29th, 2009 - 3:49 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
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Cape Canaveral, Oct 28 (THAINDIAN NEWS) After being postponed so many times, NASA was finally able to successfully launch its Ares I-X rocket. It had been postponed today on Wednesday, itself ...
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October 28th, 2009 - 10:44 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
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Cape Canaveral, Oct 28 (THAINDIAN NEWS) After being postponed so many times, NASA was finally able to successfully launch its Ares I-X rocket. It had been postponed today itself some hours ...
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October 28th, 2009 - 8:28 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
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Cape Canaveral, Oct 28 (THAINDIAN NEWS) NASA is still not able to launch the Ares I-X rocket on Wednesday morning after its attempts to do so were completely thwarted on Tuesday, ...
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October 28th, 2009 - 8:00 pm ICT by GD
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By Meena Kar
Cape Canavaral, Fla., Oct. 28, (THAINDIAN NEWS) ARES 1-X rocket launch schedule has been postponed from 27th October, Tuesday to 28th October Wednesday. As stated by the sources, clouds and ...
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October 24th, 2009 - 6:10 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, October 24 (ANI): The wide angle camera aboard the Cassini spacecraft has captured images of Saturn's latest equinox that shows night falling over the planet's rings.
Once approximately every 15 years, night ...
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October 23rd, 2009 - 12:39 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, October 23 (ANI): Astronomers, by combining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical and infrared telescopes, have detected the most distant galaxy cluster yet discovered.
The cluster is located about 10.2 ...
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October 20th, 2009 - 5:55 am ICT by IANS
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Washington, Oct 20 (DPA) A US scientist was arrested Monday and charged with attempted espionage after trying to sell secret documents to an undercover agent he believed was an Israeli spy, the ...
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October 18th, 2009 - 4:46 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Oct 18 (ANI): A week after NASA had hit the moon as part of its LCROSS mission, the first image of the lunar material that erupted as a result has ...
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October 17th, 2009 - 2:53 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, October 17 (ANI): The first all-sky maps developed by NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft suggests that galactic magnetic fields may control the boundaries of our solar system.
A "solar wind" of ...
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October 17th, 2009 - 4:34 am ICT by sampurn
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Diwali, the festival of lights, the fest for which each and every Indian eagerly waits for, is at its verge to be celebrated. But besides lights, crackers, sweets there are some ...
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October 16th, 2009 - 6:18 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, October 16 (ANI): The NASA Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission has found a "noodle soup" of solar material accumulated at the outer fringes of the heliosphere bubble.
The heliosphere is a bubble ...
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October 16th, 2009 - 2:59 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, October 16 (ANI): NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft has made it possible for scientists to construct the first comprehensive sky map of our solar system and its location in ...
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October 16th, 2009 - 2:07 pm ICT by ANI
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London, October 16 (ANI): Reports indicate that the NASA's LCROSS moon-smashing mission might have been doomed from the beginning, as some scientists involved with the mission were predicting very little, if ...
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October 14th, 2009 - 2:27 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, October 14 (ANI): U2 members Bono and The Edge, along with the former's sons, made a personal call to the astronauts on the International Space Station.
The rockers and kids Eli and ...
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October 11th, 2009 - 7:32 pm ICT by IANS
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Moscow, Oct 11 (RIA Novosti) The re-entry capsule of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft has landed safely in Kazakhstan's steppe Sunday, officials said.
Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, NASA's (US space agency) Michael Barratt ...
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October 10th, 2009 - 7:09 pm ICT by GD
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By Gina Gomez
Washington, Oct. 10, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Friday had been slated to be the day that the world was to witness the grandeur of NASA bombing the Lunar surface. The twin space ...
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October 9th, 2009 - 9:03 pm ICT by IANS
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Washington, Oct 9 (DPA) A NASA rocket crashed into the moon Friday, sending a huge plume of dust above the surface in an experiment scientists hope will provide data about ice ...
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October 9th, 2009 - 7:02 pm ICT by ANI
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Huntington (West Virginia, US), Oct.9 (ANI): A NASA spacecraft bombed the South Pole of the Moon on Friday in the hope of discovering water on the lunar surface.
NASA's "L-CROSS" mission involved the ...
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October 9th, 2009 - 5:22 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
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Moffett Field, Oct 9 (THAINDIAN NEWS) In a historic mission to solve the mystery of the presence of lunar water, NASA has launched a special moon-specific mission called Lunar CRater Observing ...
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October 9th, 2009 - 3:56 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
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Moffett Field, Oct 9 (THAINDIAN NEWS) NASA has launched a special moon-specific mission called Lunar CRater Observing and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) that will send a missile that will literally crash ("bomb") into ...
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October 9th, 2009 - 8:28 am ICT by IANS
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Washington, Oct 9 (DPA) A US rocket is to crash into the moon Friday in an experiment scientists hope will provide data about ice hidden in the perpetually dark lunar craters.
Astronomers ...
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October 8th, 2009 - 6:22 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
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Pasadena, Oct 8 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The flaming planet Saturn with its multiple rings added one more feather to its cap when its brightest and biggest ring was discovered by Nasa's Spitzer Space ...
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October 8th, 2009 - 5:35 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, October 8 (ANI): In a new research, NASA funded scientists have determined that the ancient Mayans were themselves responsible for the demise of their civilization, by deforesting and destroying their landscape ...
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October 7th, 2009 - 2:17 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Oct 7 (ANI): Arctic sea ice extent in 2009 was the third lowest since satellite measurements were first made in 1979.
The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado, ...
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October 7th, 2009 - 2:09 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Oct 7 (ANI): A new game has been developed by NASA to give young people an "out of this world" virtual opportunity to experience the thrill of working on a mission ...
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