"[Space science] can benefit Ghana as a whole," said Julian Bennett, the university's space science director.
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"It's rare to find a champion for space science in general, and it's rare to find a champion so well positioned and powerful for space science," says Dreier.
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Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteA little smaller, but stunning nonetheless:Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteTo be fair, Cassini did some incredible work on its first dive.
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The new badges, however, will go deep into space science.
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We're about to enter a new era of space science!
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It remains to be seen how far Ghana's fledgling space science industry will go, but the prospects look bright as its set of space pioneers continue to develop the country's unlikely forays into space science.
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I've been involved in Earth and space science education for years.
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Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science InstituteSaturn's moon Enceladus is a beautiful mystery.
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It is generating patriotic fervour as well as enthusiasm for space science.
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Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science InstituteThe spots aren't really that little.
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Investment in space science might also help speed up industrialisation, the government hopes.
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Who knew that teaching actors about space science was part of NASA's mandate?
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You can see the full photograph below:Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
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Recent high-profile cases, however, have come from the realm of space science.
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I'm the CEO of the Planetary Society, which advances space science and exploration.
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Cybersecurity and space science badges will roll out over the next two years.
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Farewell Rosetta, you've done the job that was space science at its best.
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Our mission at the Planetary Society is to advance space science and exploration.
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Below are some of the launches, space science and other events we anticipate.
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Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteA last look at Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
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Ugarkovic; Middle image: Detailed cross-section of Saturn's rings / NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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"[People] always see space science as just sending man to the Moon," he explained.
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Breakthrough's web of web entrepreneurs is tangled up—with itself and with federal space science.
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Top image: A downward view of Saturn's rings / NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/G.
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The project will be led by Geraint Jones who's at UCL's Mullard Space Science Laboratory.
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Apollo 11 moonwalker, Buzz Aldrin, is an international advocate of space science and planetary exploration.
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"Voyager was an odyssey," said Carolyn Porco of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
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Here, cutting edge space science and policy is discussed in an open and accessible manner.
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Padma Yanamandra-Fisher, a senior research scientist with the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
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Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteWatching clouds float by is usually a serene, relaxing experience.
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Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science InstituteThe rings are the star of almost every picture of Saturn.
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Cruz currently chairs the Senate Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Space, Science and Competitiveness, which oversees NASA.
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There are so many areas of development within the arena which are classed as space science.
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The Space, Science and Technology committee will meet to examine federal regulations from the Obama administration.
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Last week Cassini sent back what Carolyn Porco, of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
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Recently, their research was also adapted into a visualization by the Birkeland Center for Space Science.
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Not only will it be super bright, but Jupiter is the planet du jour for space science.
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And in the incredibly expensive field of space science, you've got to be exciting to get funded.
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Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteSaturn's tiny moon friend, Daphnis, is finally getting its close-up.
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Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteThe evidence is mounting that our solar system is rife with oceans.
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Other launches followed, and in 1963 O'Brien was offered a post in Rice University's new space science department.
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Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteThese new images reveal details the science team couldn't see before.
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Space & Science Festival (Friday through Sunday) What would it be like to plan a vacation on another planet?
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Members of Ghana's first university space science laboratory, joined by a NASA engineer, are busily installing meteorological instruments.
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The House Space, Science and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on the Paris climate deal on Tuesday.
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But CASIS argues that Star Wars is an apt choice since it inspires many to go into space science.
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Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteIf this feels like an optical illusion, your Saturn sense is dead on.
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The Senate subcommittee on space, science, and competitiveness will hold a hearing Wednesday on reducing regulations in outer space.
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These pictures, along with other data from such explorers, orbiters and rovers, are the raw stuff of space science.
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Empower the world's citizens to advance space science and exploration to know the cosmos and our place within it.
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Many are striving to tackle problems of great global importance -- be it climate change, medicine, space science or computing.
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A House Space, Science and Technology subcommittee will hold a hearing on the Department of Energy's loan guarantee program.
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Saturn's icy moon EnceladusImage: NASA/JPL/Space Science InstituteEnceladus is one of the most fascinating objects in the Solar System.
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It means—surprises and mishaps aside—an attentive nerd can figure out what to expect from space science in 2017.
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Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteSaturn's moon Titan is a world of contrast; both eerily familiar and strikingly alien.
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Firefighting efforts are getting a boost from space science, with satellite data helping highlight where and why certain areas burn.
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The Space Science Institute, an education nonprofit, is distributing 2 million pairs of specs to 4,800 libraries across the country.
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/Hampton UniversityThis wouldn't be the first time Saturn has displayed uncanny, chameleon-like abilities.
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Here's why NASA sent a 23.6-year-old man into space, and how his historic trip set space science forward.
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Vera Rubin, second from left, is seen at the NASA Sponsors Women in Astronomy and Space Science in October 21990.
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Other partners for the project include NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, and Colorado's Ball Aerospace.
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Space Science Institute Director Paul Dusenbery called the solar eclipse a great chance for people to understand a space phenomenon.
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ANUC's initiative currently employs six people, and the school has aspirations to start academic courses in astronomy and space science.
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Enceladus. (Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute)If you were to fly over Enceladus' southernmost regions, you'd witness a remarkable sight.
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstitutePeggy is something along the edge of Saturn's ring, a glitch whose source we've never seen.
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PROSPECT isn't just a cool reference to the actual act of prospecting — in typical space science style, it stands for something.
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Last year, it announced the creation of 23 STEM and outdoor badges, as well as 18 cybersecurity and space science badges.
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Swapna Krishna is a space science and tech writer and writes a weekly space column called Space Matter at Paste Magazine.
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Consider what the US has achieved in space science; the national pride and cosmic perspective of our planetary home are priceless.
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"What's scary are these cascading effects," Justin Kasper, professor of Space Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, told me.
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I reached out to Dr. John E. Moores, assistant professor of earth and space science and engineering at Toronto's York University.
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We're super pleased to say that Emily Calandrelli has joined up with TechCrunch to cover space, science and everything STEM related.
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The delay is costing NASA about $1 million a day, according to Thomas Zarbuchen, the agency's associate administrator for space science.
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In the letter, the authors cautioned that the use of the word "supremacy" parallels callous behavior in the space science community.
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Bonnet was ESA's director of scientific programmes at the time and now works at the International Space Science Institute at Bern.
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For example, Cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks is backing the Cybersecurity badge, while NASA's Science Mission Directorate funds the Space Science badge.
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Phil Guttridge, head of electric engineering at Mullard Space Science Laboratory, holds a 2/23 scale model of Prospero, built by Ball.
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Phil Guttridge, head of electric engineering at Mullard Space Science Laboratory, holds a 2/3 scale model of Prospero, built by Ball.
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It's clear that both houses of Congress are excited about space science, despite recent setbacks related to the James Webb Space Telescope.
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SpaceX says it has been working with leading astronomy groups to figure out ways to mitigate any potential impacts on space science.
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This author's book may be primarily a lament for the discontinued shuttle program, but it's also a love letter to space science.
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Purdue University president Mitch Daniels thanked Feustel for his efforts to advance space science, while referencing the Boilermakers, the university's athletic teams.
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Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteIt's still unclear why only two of Saturn's 62 moons (so far) look like little pasta.
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"I believe QI could be a real game changer for space science," McCulloch said in a statement after receiving the DARPA contract.
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Jordan Gerth is a meteorologist and associate researcher at the Space Science and Engineering Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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The university started its space science initiative in 2012, and has set up a ground station to collect meteorological and weather information.
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In its report, "New Worlds, New Horizons," the committee gave this mission the highest priority in space science for the next decade.
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In a paper published recently in the journal Planetary and Space Science, he identified 45 streams that move in the night sky.
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Two House Space, Science and Technology subpanels will hold a hearing on the EPA's IRIS program, which focuses on chemical health issues.
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Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteWith its extensive system of rings, Saturn is among the most beautiful planets in the Solar System.
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Yes, but: Some experts think advertising and branding in space could give the industry and space science a boost in prominence and power.
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It sounds nuts, but according to recent research published in Space Science Reviews, underwater communication through VLF channels has an outer space dimension.
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A survey presented at a major astronomy conference in Florida last week suggested that sexual harassment is an ongoing problem in space science.
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If you're an accountant with a space-bent, no worries — the course is designed for those with no previous experience in space science.
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Image: NASA, ESA, L. Sromovsky (University of Wisconsin, Madison), H. Hammel (Space Science Institute), and K. Rages (SETI)"These observations were planned only to study the atmosphere of Uranus – the detection of Ariel and its shadow were purely serendipitous," Heidi Hammel, Executive Vice President of AURA, who helped analyze the image while working at the Space Science Institute, told Gizmodo.
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It's rare that a piece of research, particularly in space science, makes you stop and look at the world differently, but this one does.
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Instead, the ISRO was founded to spur on technological development "while pursuing space science research and planetary exploration," according to the space agency's vision.
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At the center of NASA's renewed Venus ambitions is Tibor Kremic, chief of the space science project office at Glenn Research Center in Ohio.
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"If we had started our space science program 20 years ago, we could have become a top middle income country by now," he suggested.
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Over on the Senate side on Wednesday, the Commerce, Science, and Transportation subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness will examine putting boots on Mars.
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ON TAP WEDNESDAY I: A House Space, Science and Technology subcommittee will hold a hearing on the Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy.
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While often met with scepticism and criticism about spending, the quest to create space science programs in Ghana and across Africa is taking off.
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The House Space, Science and Technology Committee will also hold a hearing on Wednesday morning to examine the search for life on other planets.
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That compares with a one in 700,000 chance of being killed by an asteroid in a lifetime, according to astronomers at the Space Science Institute.
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The House's Committee on Space, Science and Technology, chaired by Smith since 2013, at least partially oversees a lot of departments stocked with scientists. NASA.
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Nearly 67 percent of respondents identified as female, according to the study, which is a much higher percentage than national samples of people in space science.
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Younger Girl Scouts, in kindergarten through grade five, can also earn an Environmental Stewardship badge, as well as badges in cybersecurity, space science, and mechanical engineering.
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Will received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Oxford and his Masters in Physics with Space Science and Technology from the University of Leicester.
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We're all going to have to keep waiting before we see NASA's most complicated space science mission — the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) — come to fruition.
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But what made matters worse is that the US House Committee on Space, Science, and Technology tweeted the story out as evidence of climate change denial.
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Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteSince it launched in 1997, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been giving us unprecedented views of Saturn and its (many) moons.
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"This may be the result of a failed launch of satellite," professor Nguyen Khoa Son of Vietnam's State Space Science and Technology Program told VietnamNet Bridge.
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It's impossible to predict how 2017 will shake out in full, but one thing is for certain—it will be another remarkable year for space science.
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Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteBut a new study, which has been accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters, suggests we may have underestimated Dione.
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"We can hopefully move from a smaller to a larger number of statistics to get an overall view to how chemistry is evolving in space."[Science]
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NASA was established by the federal government during the Cold War to project American prestige and beat the Soviets, all in the name of space science.
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"This discovery is quite new and unexpected," said lead author Joon Hyeop Lee, an astronomer at the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, in an email.
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The Space, Science and Technology Committee is also getting in on the electric grid game, holding a Tuesday hearing on resiliency featuring state officials and academics.
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The study author, Michael Way at The Goddard Institute of Space Science, also authored a 2016 study about climate and oceans on Venus in its past.
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The app aggregates news stories from a long list of online sources and covers NASA and European Space Agency news as well as breakthroughs in space science.
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But, surprisingly, the 105-year-old organization has never offered a "space science" badge — not even in the late 53s when America first went to the moon.
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But keep your head up, because space and Martian science continues on—and will continue to do so, if we vote for politicians who value space science.
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In 218, Peter Sturrock, a professor of space science and astrophysics at Stanford University, mailed 2,611 questionnaires about UFO sightings to members of the American Astronomical Society.
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David Williams, a planetary curation scientist that works at the NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive, received a call in the early 2000s that jumpstarted the task.
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Hubble's latest up close look at the red planet (Image: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), J. Bell (ASU), and M. Wolff (Space Science Institute))
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Claire Burke, an astrophysicist at the university now leading the project, presented the team's latest findings at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science on Tuesday.
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It's about getting kids interested in space science and fostering the sense that every earthling in every country around the world has a stake in this project.
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Exoplanets are a big deal in space science these days so it makes sense that NASA would plug the finding in a press event of some kind.
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Designed, constructed, and tested by the University of California Berkeley's Space Science Lab, the Mars Microphone was launched as part of the Mars Polar Lander in 1999.
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" Then he narrows his eyes, as if to size up the whole field of space science, and scoffs, "But I mean, the evidence is not looking good.
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Before becoming an astronaut, she worked in space science instrument development and remote scientific field engineering for NASA and the United States Antarctic Program, among other institutions.
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She said, "The current primary focus of the base is to support space, science, and allied operations and being able to continue that support will be critical."
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Consider the final 2019 budget: Mr. Trump proposed a 5 percent cut in NASA's space science, but Congress made it an 11 percent increase, to $6.9 billion.
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NASA is already showing a trio of unprocessed images from the first dive: Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute The ring-crossing Cassini data will also enable mission scientists to measure Saturn's gravity and magnetic fields to study its interior structure; reveal its internal rotation rate; and provide a basic understanding of how giant planets form and how they work.
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The money does come from somewhere within the federal budget, of course, but the Europa projects didn't seem to come at the expense of other space science initiatives.
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Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteOn September 15, 0.63, the Cassini spacecraft ended its valiant 13-year mission by performing a kamikaze dive into Saturn's upper atmosphere.
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China's lunar programme has built up its capabilities steadily in a way no Western space-science programme has since Apollo, the achievements of which it may yet match.
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A joint news release from the Space Science Institute, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and Google says about 4,800 libraries will participate in giving out free glasses.
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The solar corona — the outer atmosphere of the Sun that is revealed so spectacularly during a total solar eclipse — is one of the great mysteries in space science.
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A similar study focusing on earth and space science journals found that women made up only about a quarter of first authors and about 22010 percent of reviewers.
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New research published this week in the science journal Planetary and Space Science is providing evidence linking the impact event that created the Stickley Crater to Phobos's conspicuous grooves.
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According to a new paper published in Space Science Reviews, the high altitude nuclear testing conducted by both the USSR and United States created "artificial radiation belts" near Earth.
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Part of their work has been getting girls who are already Scouts more familiar with the field, through earning new badges in areas such as cybersecurity and space science.
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Koch will serve aboard the International Space Station as a flight engineer for the expedition, as she has background in both space science instrument development and scientific field engineering.
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Beresheet would not only be Israel's first deep-space science mission, it will be the first probe designed and built by a private group to land on the moon.
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The British government says it wants to maintain close ties to the EU in areas such as space science, where Britain is a major provider of funds and expertise.
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"That's a very difficult size hole to make go away," said Aaron Cavosie, a planetary scientist at the Space Science and Technology Centre at Curtin University in Perth, Australia.
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EnceladusImage: NASA/JPL/Space Science InstituteUsing data collected by NASA's late-great Cassini space probe, scientists have detected traces of complex organic molecules seeping out from Enceladus' ice-covered ocean.
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Beyond rocket hardware, China is also reportedly mulling a major boost in spending on space science programs that will challenge Chinese firms to develop new materials, sensors and other technologies.
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It follows in the path of several other African nations in promoting space science and looking to the final frontier to help address on-the-ground issues and local problems.
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It helps provide scholarship funding for young people of color and works to introduce space science and STEM to communities that may not have access to that kind of material.
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The survey data — which should be submitted to a peer-reviewed journal this year — carries a special weight in light of a recent scandal that rocked the space science world.
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Nikolai Østgaard, head of the Birkeland Centre for Space Science at Norway's University of Bergen, and Karl Laundal helped to underscore how different the two auroras could be in 2009.
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American law prevents NASA collaborating with the Chinese—something regretted by Wu Ji, a former director-general of China's National Space Science Centre who is now an adviser to the government.
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In early July, Musk dispatched SpaceX VP Tim Hughes to the US Senate subcommittee on Space, Science, & Technology to make the case for farming out trips to the moon and Mars.
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"This is it, the beginning of the end of our historic exploration of Saturn," Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team lead at Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, said in a statement.
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The National Space Science Centre, part of CAS, is busy putting up scientific satellites; in April 2018 it announced six new ones that should be launched by 241.4 or soon after.
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"From the Renaissance to modern space science, Italy has always been a natural home to great innovators and breakthrough ideas which have shaped the human experience," Branson said in a statement.
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The government allocated GHC$38.5 million (US$33 million) to nuclear and space science technology in 2015 as it aims to further space education and benefit from its own satellite imagery.
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Scheduled for launch in the summer of 224, the mission has been a major goal in space science since before NASA was even formed, according to SPP project scientist Nicola Fox.
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StarTalk, Neil deGrasse Tyson's podcast about space, science and pop culture, comes alive on the Kings Theater stage, with Eugene Mirman, a frequent guest on the show, hosting alongside the astrophysicist.
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"There are optical and space science applications for very black materials, and of course artists have been interested in black, going back well before the Renaissance," Wardle said in MIT's blog.
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NASA's presence on social sites like GIPHY and Pinterest is crucial for public outreach, sure, but it also offers a way for space science to get in on the power of memeification.
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"Most senior engineers today, either in civilian space science, national defense or national security, were inspired by the moon landings," Sara Seager, MIT professor of physics and planetary science, told the committee.
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Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteAccording to Ingersoll, the lighter blobs pictured above are clouds of ammonia floating about 93 miles (150 kilometers) atop the next closest layer of the atmosphere.
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Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteAccording to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, these images were taken during one of Cassini's recent ring grazing orbits, when the spacecraft's camera was pointing toward Pan.
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Zhang Xiaoping, an associate professor from Space Science Institute/Lunar and Planetary Science Laboratory of Macau University of Science and Technology, said that the spacecraft would follow the Chang'e-24's trajectory.
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"It's like standing in front of a lamp and throwing a flea across it," said professor Adam Burgasser of the Center for Astrophysics and Space Science at the University of California San Diego.
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Headquartered in Bangalore, the agency is driving the country's vision to "harness space technology for national development while pursuing space science research and planetary exploration," according to a statement on the government's website.
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Saturn's hexagon from CassiniPhoto: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteSitting atop Saturn's north pole is one of the Solar System's most striking weather patterns: a rotating, color-changing hexagon slightly wider than Earth.
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Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteCassini met its end in Saturn's clouds on September 15, 2017, a month short of the 20th anniversary of its launch, taking data the whole way down.
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Tailoring his agenda to a more urban base with research and technology interests, like the Sandia National Laboratory, he joined the Committee on Space, Science and Technology, becoming the ranking Republican in 1987.
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On retiring in 2000, he became the head of Ice Drilling Design and Operations, a program at the university's Space Science and Engineering Center that designs and deploys drills for collecting ice samples.
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Space is becoming a major area of startup and commercial investment, so I've decided to start providing a weekly round-up of the biggest news in aerospace, space science and space-related technologies.
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"President Eisenhower&aposs first impulse was to put all space activity into the Department of Defense [DoD], and the scientific community would tell DoD what to do when space science was concerned," Logsdon said.
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Science writes that the experiment is important as "China's first mission dedicated to astrophysics" and "shows that the country is set to become a force in space science," paraphrasing Physicist David Spergel at Princeton.
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Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteWe look forward to more hauntingly beautiful photos from Saturn's atmosphere over the coming weeks; we'll take whatever we can get until Cassini becomes a ghost itself.[NASA]
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This is a terrific resource for media covering news or interested in space science, and a great way to just kill time even if you're not planning on repurposing any of the available media.
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One of the crucial pieces of cargo going up is a small satellite deployment device, called "Kibo," created by the Kyushu Institute of Technology and the National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Science.
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Although Ms. Koch performed six spacewalks during her mission, set a duration record for time in space and contributed enormously to space science, that October spacewalk will be what gets her into history books.
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Space nerds can now rejoice because the Girl Scouts, in partnership with NASA and the SETI Institute, plans to introduce six new space science badges for participants of every age between kindergarten and 12th grade.
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Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute, Processed by Kevin M. GillAs the Cassini spacecraft executes its final daredevil maneuvers, scientists on both sides of the Atlantic are already thinking about the next mission to Saturn.
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In 1964, five years before Apollo 11 touched down in the Sea of Tranquility, he was a skinny, precocious young professor of space science at Rice University in Houston, specializing in the study of radiation.
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As chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness, Cruz even chaired a hearing on the "Future of the International Space Station," which investigated the realities of destroying or privatizing ISS.
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Hypergiant founder CEO Ben Lamm also serves as an Advisory Council Member for The Planetary Society, the nonprofit dedicated to space science and exploration advocacy that's led by Nye who acts as the Society's CEO.
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Rather, they pride themselves on having niche interests, be it K-pop, celebrities, anime, sci-fi or space science, topics that come in the form of filters, effects, stickers and GIFs in PicsArt's content library.
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"This is not your grandfather's Apollo program that we're looking at," said Jack Burns, director of the Network for Exploration and Space Science at the University of Colorado, which is working on the telescope project.
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"People have this view that space science means launching a rocket or observing faraway galaxies, but in reality a lot of it is actually relating to earth and observations," NASA instrument engineer Jon Rodriguez added.
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"Our community is passionate about Venus, but we're getting pretty thin," said geophysicist Robert Grimm, a program director in the space science division of the Southwest Research Institute, in a January 10 Ars Technica article.
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Saturn's rings from CassiniImage: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteIt's been more than six months since the Cassini probe plummeted to its demise, but scientists are still releasing incredible images from two-decade mission to Saturn.
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Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/Kevin M. GillThe photo was captured by Cassini's wide-angle camera on July 20, 2016, which is capable of capturing infrared light at 750, 727, and 619 nanometers.
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"We now have the equivalent of drone-eye vision anywhere on the surface of Mars where there are enough clear repeat pictures," Professor Jan-Peter Muller from the UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory said in statement.
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Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteWe've been getting some fantastic images from the Cassini Spacecraft this year as it orbits Saturn, and one of its latest image from the ringed planet is no less stunning.
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Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteWe've been loving the pictures that the Cassini Spacecraft has been beaming back of Saturn and its various moons: this latest one is a gorgeous portrait of Rhea and Tethys.
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Images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteLast week, the Cassini spacecraft began a series of dramatic, "ring-grazing orbits" that will see it fly high over Saturn's poles before diving perilously close to the gas giant's rings.
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Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteDuring the final days of the legendary Cassini mission, the NASA spacecraft performed a series of ring-skimming orbits around Saturn, snapping unprecedented images of the gas giant's enigmatic ring moons.
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"When the two magnetic fields link up, then that allows the solar energy to flow straight into the magnetosphere," said study author Jim Burch, vice president of the space science and engineering at the Southwest Research Institute.
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"It is as though Ceres cures its own large impact scars and regenerates new surfaces, over and over," Dawn research Simone Marchi, a senior research scientist in SwRI's Space Science and Engineering Division, said in a statement.
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In addition, in the past few years, the Girl Scouts organization, which has offered STEM-related programming for over a century, has introduced new programs in space science and exploration, cybersecurity, mechanical engineering, robotics and computer science.
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Cruz told representatives from NASA that lawmakers were united behind the program during a hearing Wednesday on the "Future of the International Space Station" before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness.
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The country's first satellite, due to be launched in September with China's help and backing, is being put in place in part to track environmental concerns, said the head of the Ethiopian Space Science and Technology Institute (ESSTI).
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The Trump administration has been relatively mum about its plans for America's space science agency, but a senior campaign advisor told The Guardian in November that Trump would like to eliminate NASA's world-renowned climate change research division.
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The Dr. Harris at the Space Science Institute, who is 71, is known as "Al the Elder," while "Al the Younger," 64, is a German Aerospace Center scientist who developed the computer model used by the Neowise scientists.
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"We were greatly impressed by Aoife's exciting and poetic project that will tackle concepts of stellar birth and death in the Universe, blending art and space science into a unique performance," adds Mark McCaughrean, ESA's Senior Science Advisor.
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Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science InstituteIn 2014, analyzing visible and infrared spectra collected by Cassini during solar occultations, researchers demonstrated that Titan absorbs, refracts, and scatters sunlight in ways that may obscure information about deeper parts of the atmosphere.
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In the 2000 years that NASA has had a presence on the space station, the space agency has conducted experiments in biology, biotechnology, physics and space science that have resulted in thousands of spin-off technologies, the agency said.
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Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteUse this moment to take in an incredible piece of human accomplishment requiring 260 scientists and countless hours to give us a glimpse at (arguably) the most beautiful of the Solar System's planets.
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Scientists will continue to make use of this data to learn more about the ringed giant, and we'll probably continue getting new incredible pictures (like this one, which is my computer's background):Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
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Why it matters: Even though the president's budget, as described by the AP, was "obsolete even before it was made public," the proposal will fuel an important debate about the future of public and private sector-funded space science.
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"It indicates there is chemical potential to support microbial systems," said J. Hunter Waite Jr., program director for the space science and engineering division at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio and lead author of the Science paper.
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Here's a ghostly raw image of Titan, taken on September 10th at 12:55 AM:Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteAnd another look at that same image:Despite the haunting beauty of the photos, we can't help but feel a little upset.
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Prior to joining Ford, he was vice president of the Advanced Technology Center at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, where he led a team of scientists and engineers in performing research and development in space science and related R&D.
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Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science InstituteSince NASA's Saturn-orbiting Cassini probe started snapping high-resolution photos of Enceladus in the early 2000s, it's become one of the most fascinating objects in the solar system for astrobiologists and planetary scientists alike.
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The two biggest culprits are the declining budgets for Roscosmos (the Russian space science program) and the rise of commercial competition from American rocket providers like SpaceX and United Launch Alliance (the latter a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin).
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Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute"[Thursday's photo data] bears on the question of why are the winds actually stronger on Saturn than they are Jupiter, and why are both of them stronger than the winds on Earth," Ingersoll said.
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"Irma, we had a chance of having a $500 billion disaster, had it taken the eastern track along the Florida coastline," says Shane Hubbard, a disaster researcher at the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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The Webb telescope is a collaboration between NASA and the European Space Agency, "the largest international space science project in U.S. history," in the words of NASA's acting administrator Robert Lightfoot, who is retiring at the end of next month.
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"I hope that those reports prove as unfounded as Bigfoot," Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas and the chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Space, Science and Competitiveness, said on Wednesday during a Federal Aviation Administration conference on commercial space transportation.
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NASA officials remembered Ride not only for her space flights but also for contributing to strategic and long-term planning that informed NASA's modern human spaceflight programs, as well as serving as a role model for other women in space science.
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According to Jorg Matthias Determann, author of "Space Science and the Arab World," the Emirati Mars mission and the nation's other space ambitions go beyond anything any "other Arab country is currently aspiring to," in terms of scale and technological ambition.
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Now, another group of astronomers, led by Vardan Adibekyan of the Astrophysics and Space Science Institute in Porto, Portugal, have performed a similar trick on gas giants, the largest type of planet, which are represented in the solar system by Jupiter and Saturn.
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Harvey has been called a "one in 500 years storm," but the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison says this event has a probability rating of 0.1 percent for Texas, or a "one in 1,000 years" storm.
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While the US can still be considered a leader in space science—we're still developing impressive technology like the Starshade that could assist in the Earth 2.0 hunt—European and Chinese space programs are catching up in terms of research, development, and innovation.
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The latest NASA astrophysics endeavor is designed to build on the work of its predecessor, the Kepler space telescope, which discovered the bulk of some 3,500 exoplanets documented during the past 20 years, revolutionizing one of the newest fields in space science.
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William Dunn, a PhD student at University College London's Mullard Space Science Laboratory and lead author, explained in a phone call that this research will help demystify the relationship between Jupiter's massive magnetosphere (the area controlled by its magnetic field) and solar wind.
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Image: Paul Chodas/NASA/JPLThis is a shame, according to new research published in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Science, as mini-moons could help us to better understand asteroids and asteroid formation, the dynamics of the Earth-Moon system, and other celestial phenomena.
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"The moon is essentially a frozen version of what the Earth was several billion years ago," writes Andrew Coates, Professor of Physics and Deputy Director (Solar System) at UCL's Mullard Space Science Laboratory who has been involved with Cassini for 28 years, in Business Insider.
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With 20 dives left before the spacecraft plunges itself into Saturn's atmosphere on September 15th, it's hard to imagine anything can get better than these images of Saturn's rings:Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteThis one looks like the cover of a Strokes album!
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Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteIt was 11:56 pm Wednesday night when a Deep Space Network receiver picked up a signal from NASA's Cassini orbiter as it emerged from its first trip through the gap between Saturn and the gas giant's rings.
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The flashiest early example of origami solving a scientific problem was when Koryo Miura and Masamori Sakamaki, astrophysicists at Tokyo University's space-science department, devised a new approach to the unfolding and refolding of a satellite's solar panels, first put into practice in 1995.
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The future of this collaboration is also in our hands, by developing research projects in our country and at African level for example the Africa Initiative for Planetary and Space Science and maintaining the links that were established with NASA scientists on this occasion.
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She attended her first rocket launch at four years old, but she didn't really decide she wanted to pursue planetary geology or any career in space science until she was 14, watching the rockets her dad helped create blast the Voyager landers toward Mars.
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The lead author of the new study, Sanjay Limaye of the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Space Science and Engineering Center, isn't saying there's life on Venus, but the new paper—a self-described "hypothesis article"—suggests we should look for signs of life in the planet's cloudtops.
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Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteCassini's six-month-long Grand Finale mission has become the unofficial nerd Super Bowl: each time the NASA-led spacecraft drops a new batch of raw images, we jump to our computers and frantically scroll through to find the best.
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Image: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), J. Bell (ASU), and M. Wolff (Space Science Institute)Mars is nearing its closest approach to us in a decade, so Hubble took that opportunity to capture a brand new up-close look at the red planet.
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But a push within Xi's government to triple spending on space science as well as the emergence of a small but growing group of privately backed space start-ups suggest that both Chinese industry and government see long-term economic benefits in their investments in space technologies.
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Wolff (Space Science Institute)/NASA/ESA/the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)) Beginning in early June and continuing into July and August, those who look skyward toward the east-southeast during the evening hours will almost certainly notice a brilliant orange-red "star" shining with a steady light.
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I thought that was enough for me, until as a 16-year-old I met Britain's first astronaut, Helen Sharman, at Space School UK. At that moment I suddenly realised that every one of my role models in the fields of astronomy and space science had been male.
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But after years reporting what sometimes feel like frivolous space science stories during times of struggle, I've come to the conclusion that even when most of the world is embroiled in strife, we still deserve to feel that sense of unity that comes from looking out into the universe.
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"Today there are more space vehicles being designed and built than there have in the prior history of space, when you think about it even back in the Challenger days," Lance Bush, the president and CEO of the Challenger Center for Space Science Education, said in an interview.
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At this year's International Astronautical Congress, NASA and Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, signed a joint statement expressing their intent to work collaboratively toward the development of a space station further out from Earth, orbiting the Moon, as a staging point for both lunar surface exploration and deeper space science.
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"The remnant could be a highly magnetized, hypermassive neutron star known as a magnetar, which survived the collision and then collapsed into a black hole," said Geoffrey Ryan, study co-author and a Joint Space-Science Institute Prize Postdoctoral Fellow in the University of Maryland Department of Astronomy.
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After getting her Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Chicago in 1949, Roman joined NASA in 1959 as its first Chief of Astronomy in the Office of Space Science at NASA Headquarters and remained in the role for nearly twenty years until her retirement in 1979, according to NASA.
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They diagrammed out the largest features they observed here:A labeled diagram of the new Mars portrait (Image: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), J. Bell (ASU), and M. Wolff (Space Science Institute))Among those features are larger, geological ones, like some of the more significant craters and plains.
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In February, University College London researchers Yu Tao and Jan-Peter Muller published a paper in Planetary and Space Science detailing an image processing technique that compares several images of the same area of Mars from different angles to glean resolution down to 5cm as opposed to the previous 25cm.
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A document released this month revealed a secretive multimillion-dollar Department of Defense program from the late 2000s compiled research into invisibility cloaks, warp drive, and many other areas of fringe space science as part of a now-defunct program aimed at detecting and potentially explaining strange sightings in the Earth's atmosphere.
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Click here to view original GIFImage: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/Hampton University/Science AlertAdd this to the long list of celestial End Times portents to keep you up at night: Saturn's north polar hexagon, a six-sided vortex of unknown origin that could easily swallow our entire planet, has changed color.
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The lead author of the new study, Zhu Meng-Hua of the Space Science Institute at Macau University of Science and Technology, had a hunch the near side-far side asymmetries were the result of celestial collision after looking at data gathered in 2500 by the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission.
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New Shepard is a suborbital launch vehicle, and will seek to deliver cargo including a number of scientific experiments as well as thousands of postcards from children who have submitted them through Blue Origin's nonprofit Club for the Future organization, which aims to get kids in involved in space science and exploration.
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The installation will provide the university with detailed climate readings from Koforidua and its surroundings and feed back to NASA's global climate database in the US. The project is the latest achievement for the university which, along with the government and a string of other academic institutions, is helping spearhead Ghana's fledgling space science industry.
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In the caption for today's Instagram post, for instance, he said that there is a "Lot that can go wrong in the November launch," and he said during a fireside chat at this year's ISS R&D space science conference that SpaceX will consider themselves lucky if the rocket clears the launch facility before anything goes really wrong.
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"The activities were fun to do and it gave me the chance to learn that viruses can come and change the message you sent and why it is important not to share personal information on the computer" she told Gizmodo in an email, adding that she's most excited about the Mechanical Engineering, Space Science and Robotics badges.
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"A number of experiments and observations have figured out that, under the right conditions, radio communications signals in the VLF [very low frequency] frequency range can in fact affect the properties of the high-energy radiation environment around the Earth," Phil Erickson, a co-author of the new study appearing the journal Space Science Reviews, said in a statement.
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"With our sight set on the heavens, which President Kennedy referred to as 'the new frontier,' it is only fitting that the nation born on the last frontier should continue to lead the way in the new frontier," Cruz said at a hearing of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Space, Science and Competitiveness, which he chairs.
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Mars portrait captured by Hubble in the days leading up the close approach (Image: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), J. Bell (ASU), and M. Wolff (Space Science Institute))Mars is one of our nearest space neighbors, but even it is still pretty far away—which is why its closest approach in a decade is such an unmissable opportunity.
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Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward Cruz3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 The Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters Democrats keen to take on Cornyn despite formidable challenges MORE (R-Texas), chairman of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Space, Science and Competitiveness, held a hearing on ways to ease regulations and boost commercial investment in space.
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Photo: APAs congresspeople deliberated yesterday—before the GOP bid to destroy the Affordable Care Act devolved into a colossal train wreck this afternoon—Lamar Smith, the Chair of the House Committee on Space, Science and Technology, slipped away from the discussions so he could go hang out with climate change deniers and remind them that the media is liberal, according to a report by Motherboard.
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Indeed, the legal strength of the post-detection protocol rests on the authority of Article XI of the UN Treaty on governing the exploration and use of outer space, which requires that countries "inform the secretary general of the United Nations as well as the public and the international scientific community…of the nature, conduct, locations and results" of the results of space science.
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"These are stars that have travelled great distances through the galaxy but can be traced back to its core, an area so dense and obscured by interstellar gas and dust that it is normally very difficult to observe," commented Leiden University astrophysicist Elena Maria Rossi, who co-authored the new research, at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science in Prague on Monday.
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A good, concise statement of the "electric discharge" model of comets with an overview of the evidence supporting this view can be found at: Electric Comets Re-write Space Science Although I have some qualms about many of their tenets -- nuclear fusion in stars, for example, doesn't exist and planets like Venus are spat out by Jupiter and periodically go careening around the Solar System, only to settle into almost perfectly circular orbits!
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"The committee is concerned that the SEC, by wielding its enforcement authority against companies like Exxon for its collection of and reliance on what is perhaps in the SEC's view inadequate climate data used to value its assets, advances a prescriptive climate change orthodoxy that may chill further climate change research throughout the public and private scientific R&D sector," Smith, the chairman of the House Space, Science and Technology Committee, wrote.
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