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Future space robots may think for themselves

5 Jul 2008 at 11:13am 

EVE, otherwise known as the Extra-terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator, represents an intelligent probe sent to an abandoned Earth in the film "WALL-E." Credit: Pixar/DisneyScientists today can only dream of having a robotic explorer like EVE from the Disney/Pixar film "WALL-E." But some researchers are working on autonomous spacecraft, airships and rovers that can cooperate intelligently while exploring distant worlds.



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Stars and stripes in space

3 Jul 2008 at 12:44pm 

Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: NASA's Great Observatories present a red-white-and-blue view of cosmic stars and stripes, just in time for the Fourth of July.Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: NASA's Great Observatories present a red-white-and-blue view of cosmic stars and stripes, just in time for the Fourth of July.



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Volcanoes on Mercury solve 30-year mystery

3 Jul 2008 at 3:23pm 

Low-iron volcanic plains filling the Caloris impact basin make a large pale-orange patch (C) in this false-color image of Mercury. White arrows mark young smooth plains. Around the edge of Caloris and elsewhere lie small volcanic centers thought to form by explosive eruptions (black arrows). Widespread dark blue areas are older rocks that may be rich in the mineral ilmenite. Credit: NASA/JHUAP/Arizona State University

A NASA spacecraft's first flyby of Mercury has yielded a wealth of information about the innermost planet, some of which confirms that volcanism occurred there, settling a longstanding debate.



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Mars lander?s next whiff could be its last

3 Jul 2008 at 7:44am 

This image was acquired by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Surface Stereo Imager (SSI) in the late afternoon of the 30th Martian day of the mission, or Sol 30 (June 25, 2008). This is hours after the beginning of Martian northern summer. SSI used its natural-color filters, therefore the color is the color you would see on Mars. The image shows shadows from the SSI (left) and from the meteorological station mast (right) stretching toward the east as the sun dropped low in the west.

The Phoenix Mission is led by the University of Arizona, Tucson, on behalf of NASA. Project management of the mission is led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Spacecraft development is by Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver.The Phoenix lander's first chemical sniff of Martian soil did not turn up any trace of the building blocks of life. Its next whiff could be its last.



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Space probes trace solar system?s dent

2 Jul 2008 at 12:25pm 

An artist's rendering depicts the Voyager 2 spacecraft as it studies the outer limits of the heliosphere - a magnetic 'bubble' around the Solar System that is created by the solar wind. Scientists observed the magnetic bubble is not spherical, but pressed inward in the southern hemisphereVoyager 2's journey toward interstellar space has revealed surprising insights into the forces at the solar system's outer edge, and confirmed the solar system's squashed shape.



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Mission to Saturn goes into overtime

1 Jul 2008 at 5:08pm 

Saturn and its rings star in this view from the Cassini orbiter, with the moon Mimas playing a supporting role as a speck at upper left, and the unseen moon Enceladus casting another speck of a shadow on Saturn's disk. The picture was taken on Dec. 16, 2007, and released on Monday.The Cassini orbiter has officially ended its four-year primary mission to Saturn ? ushering in a two-year extended mission that will focus on the ringed planet's mysterious moons.



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Scientists eager to see Hubble?s facelift

1 Jul 2008 at 4:03pm 

NASA previews a shuttle mission that will bring up better cameras as well as upgraded equipment that should keep the world's favorite space telescope going strong until 2013.



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Pentagon is in the market for spy satellites

1 Jul 2008 at 3:12pm 

** FILE  ** In this June 27, 2006, file photo a Boeing's Delta 4 rocket, carrying a a spy satellite skyward on a classified mission, is launched into space at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.  Military and industry officials say that in the first week of July 2008, it will be announced that the Pentagon will buy and operate up to two commercial imagery satellites and plans to design and build a third with more sophisticated capabilities to spy on enemy troop movements, spot construction at suspected nuclear sites and alert commanders to new militant training camps, government. (AP Photo/Gene Blevins, File)The Pentagon will buy and operate one or two commercial imagery satellites and plans to design and build another with more sophisticated spying capabilities, according to government and private industry officials.



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100 years later, Tunguska still mysterious

30 Jun 2008 at 6:42am 

The Tunguska explosion flattened some 500,000 acres of Siberian forest on June 30, 1908. This image is from the Leonid Kulik expedition in 1927A full century after the mysterious Tunguska explosion in Siberia leveled an area nearly the size of Tokyo, debate continues over what caused it.



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Slide show: See the cosmos on your computer

24 Jun 2008 at 9:21pm 

See highlights from the shuttle Discovery?s flight, the Phoenix Mars Lander mission and much more in June?s roundup of cosmic pictures.See highlights from the shuttle Discovery?s flight, the Phoenix Mars Lander mission and much more in June?s roundup of cosmic pictures.



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