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Comets may have delivered water on Moon
Thiruvananthapuram :: India | 1 day ago
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The spacecraft snapped images and took spectra of lunar debris kicked up by the rocket�s impact and found that it contained the unmistakable signs of water. Previous missions have also found hints of lunar water but its source has not been clear. One...
Tags: LCROSS, solar wind, moon, India, Thiruvananthapuram, Planetary geology, Comet, Lunar soil, Water, Exploration of the Moon, Lunar science, Environment, Technology Internet
India to study absorption of radio noise at Antarctica!
Mumbai :: India | 3 days ago
Credibility India to study absorption of radio noise at Antarctica Updated on Thursday, November 19, 2009, 16:00 IST Mumbai: India will install Imaging Riometer at its permanent research station in Antarctica in a few months time to study the absorption of radio...
Tags: Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, East Antarctica, IIG, radio noise, Antarctica Updated, Maitri, India, Mumbai, Solar wind, Coronal mass ejection, Geomagnetic storm, Corona, Sun, Technology Internet, Plasma physics, Space plasmas, Ionosphere, Environment
Mission finds bright ribbon at solar system border
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility A bright ribbon of hydrogen atoms marks the edge of the solar system, where the Sun's wind meets emissions from the rest of the galaxy, researchers reported on Thursday...David McComas of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, who led...
Tags: solar wind
A Giant Breach in Earth's Magnetic Field
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 11 months ago
Credibility Earth's magnetic field ten times larger than anything previously thought to exist. Solar wind can flow in through the opening to "load up" the magnetosphere for powerful geomagnetic storms...David Sibeck of the Goddard Space Flight Center. "This finding...
Tags: magnetic, scientists, magnetosphere, solar wind, solar, sun, Earth, magnetic field, solar winds
Scientists reveal why Venus is losing Water! So, will it soon lose all of its water?
Water is the life-procreating molecule on planet Earth and the same water has been assumed to exist on the sister planet, Venus. Earth and Venus are not only approximately the same size; they are thought to have formed about the same time as well....
Tags: Venus, water loss, water, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Atoms, molecules, Ions Planets, Sun, Earth, Solar Wind, atmosphere, oceans
NASA to Study Solar System Force Field
NASA has launched the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) to image the force field that seems to insulate our galaxy from dangerous radiation. While there is a standard amount of cosmic rays distributed throughout our solar system, more dangerous radiation...
Tags: NASA, solar wind, force field
NASA sees no quick fix for broken Hubble telescope
Cape Canaveral :: FL :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Hubble Space Telescope is backdropped against black space as the Space Shuttle Columbia, with a crew of seven astronauts on board approached in this March 3, 2002 file photo. Hubble Space Telescope: They have to wake up a backup data-handling system...
Tags: nasa, solar wind, space shuttle, Hubble Space Telescope, news, NASA Scrambles, Atlantis, solar systems
NASA launches IBEX spacecraft
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
Credibility Interstellar Boundary Explorer (Ibex) into orbit to examine the solar winds that shield the Earth from cosmic rays...It will be the first spacecraft to image and map dynamic interactions taking place in the outer solar system. Ibex is expected to give...
Tags: solar wind, solar winds, NASA, outer solar, nasa launches, Ibex
NASA probe to study edge of solar system
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The US space agency is to launch Sunday a space probe that will go into orbit high above earth to study the distant edge of the solar system where hot solar winds crash into cold outer space...The only information that scientists have of this distant...
Tags: space, solar wind, mission, rocket, outer space, NASA
Wired: NASA Spacecraft Will Explore Outer Solar System
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Oct. 19, on a mission to explore the interaction of our sun and solar system with the galaxy. Earth and capture the first-ever images of our solar system's boundaries. The mission will help us visualize our place in the galaxy and learn how the interaction...
Tags: solar system, solar wind, nasa, space, mission, sun, iss
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