Navigating the Seas of Titan

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Madrid, Spain (SPX) Oct 01, 2012
Humanity has landed a rover on Mars. Now, say scientists, it's time to land a boat on Titan. This outlandish scenario could become reality, according to engineers presenting their proposals at the European Planetary Science Congress on 27 September. Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is one of the most Earth-like bodies in the solar system. With a thick atmosphere, a diameter between that of Ea

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Mars Rover Opportunity Working at 'Matijevic
Hill'

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Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 01, 2012
NASA's Mars rover Opportunity, well into its ninth year on Mars, will work for the next several weeks or months at a site with some of the mission's most intriguing geological features. The site, called "Matijevic Hill," overlooks 14-mile-wide (22-kilometer-wide) Endeavour Crater. Opportunity has begun investigating the site's concentration of small spherical objects reminiscent of, but di

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Learning to live on Mars

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Boston, MA (SPX) Oct 01, 2012
Since the beginning of August, NASA's Mars rover, Curiosity, has been roaming all over the distant planet learning as much as it can about the Martian terrain. The mission control team back on Earth has also learned what it may be like on Mars by trying to live and work on a Martian day, which is about 40 minutes longer than an Earth day. This 'day' length causes havoc with the internal 24

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Curious About Life: Interview with David
Grinspoon

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Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 26, 2012
The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover has 10 science instruments, and each will be used in the coming weeks and months to help characterize the environment of Mars and determine if the planet ever had the potential for life. The Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) studies the presence of radiation at the Martian surface for the first time. The instrument will be able to tell how much

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Australian hypersonic test a success

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Canberra, Australia (UPI) Sep 28, 2012
Australian military scientists successfully completed another test flight of an experimental hypersonic vehicle, this time at the Andoya Rocket Range in Norway. A test vehicle reached an apogee of nearly 218 miles and then achieved speeds of up to Mach 8 - about 6,100 mph - on descent. The two-stage vehicle performed its nominal, sub-orbital space flight powered by a VS-30/Orio

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Ariane rocket launches two telecom satellites

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Paris (AFP) Sept 29, 2012
An Ariane 5 rocket carrying two satellites, ASTRA 2F and GSAT-10, successfully put its payload into orbit late Friday, European operator Arianespace announced. The fifth such launch of the Ariane 5 this year, the rocket took off at 6:18 pm (2118 GMT) from Kourou, in French Guiana. Arianespace broadcast the launch online. "We are continuing our series of records with this 51st success in

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Ariane 5 maintains Arianespace's track record of
success with the launch of ASTRA 2F and GSAT-10

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Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Oct 01, 2012
The fifth Ariane 5 mission of 2012 delivered a pair of telecommunications spacecraft to geostationary transfer orbit Friday, marking the 65th launch to date for Arianespace's heavy-lift workhorse. Lifting off in late afternoon sunlight at 6:18 p.m. from the Spaceport in French Guiana, Ariane 5 deployed its ASTRA 2F and GSAT-10 satellite passengers during a flight lasting 30 minutes.

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A New Dawn For NASA's Asteroid Explorer

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Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 01, 2012
On the fifth anniversary of the beginning of its ambitious interplanetary adventure, Dawn can look back with great satisfaction on its spectacular exploration of the giant protoplanet Vesta and forward with great eagerness to reaching dwarf planet Ceres. Today Earth's robotic ambassador to the main asteroid belt is in quiet cruise, gradually reshaping its orbit around the sun so it can keep its

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The Case of the Lost Transmission: Newsletter
Challenge (October 2012)

This month's Challenge Question: Specs & Techs from GlobalSpec:Cars powered by internal combustion engines need transmissions. However, electric cars and steam locomotives do not need transmissions. Why?The answer to this challenge will be posted later this month, right here on CR4.

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100 Years Ago: Killing Locusts with Bacteria

From Scientific American: "The nucleic acids are made by joining up four kinds of nucleotide to form a polynucleotide chain. The chain provides a backbone from which four kinds of side group, known as bases, jut at regular intervals. The order of the bases, however, is not regular, and i

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