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Follow Mankind's Quest to explore and harness the promise of space with interactive media tools.

Space exploration is not only about the progress of science into space. Its about the progress of humankind into space. The species that survive are those that harness the power of the stars and planets to propel their civilizations past forces of Darwinian, Geologic and solar systems evolution. The solar system resources are there for us to help restore the balance of planet earth. The energy from the sun is around the corner. We just have to realize we can't live without space.

 

Space technology helps mitigate climate change

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5 January 2010   Space technologies have led to a number of inventions that benefit the environment and save energy. Satellite-based systems are reducing vehicles’ carbon dioxide emissions, remote-sensing technology is making wind turbines more efficient, and information from weather satellites is helping solar cells to produce more energy.

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Last Updated on Thursday, 14 January 2010 02:33
 

Magnetic Dance of Titan and Saturn To Be Main Attraction during Flyby

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Artist's concept of Cassini's Titan flyby

Artist's concept of Cassini's Dec. 11 flyby of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Image credit: NASA/JPL

 

December 11, 2009

When it flies by Saturn's largest moon, Titan, this weekend, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will study the interactions between the magnetic field of Saturn and Titan. The flyby will take place the evening of Dec. 11 California time, or shortly after midnight Universal Time on Dec. 12.

As Titan plows through the magnetic bubble, or magnetosphere around Saturn, it creates a wake in the magnetic field lines coming away from the planet. This flyby will allow Cassini's fields and particles instruments to study that wake about 5,200 kilometers (3,200 miles) away from the moon, a relatively unexamined region. Other instruments will also be taking a closer look at Titan's clouds.

At closest approach to Titan, Cassini will swing to within about 4,900 kilometers (3,000 miles) of the surface of the moon.

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Last Updated on Saturday, 12 December 2009 06:11
 

A damp moon: Water found inside and out

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Spacecraft reveal higher than expected abundances of the liquid on the lunar surface and in volcanic rocks
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Scientists’ understanding of the moon could be all wet. Its surface is surprisingly dewy and its interior contains more water than previous analyses of moon rocks have indicated, according to new studies.
Observations from three spacecraft suggest that water is widely distributed over a thin layer of the lunar surface rather than locked up in icy enclaves predicted to lie at the moon’s poles. The results, detailed in a trio of papers to be posted online September 24 in Science, suggest that liquid water may be more available to future moon explorers than had been thought. Concentrations in sunlit soil might average about 1,000 parts per million, the equivalent of roughly a quart of water per ton of material. That water doesn’t remain on the moon, but comes and goes each lunar day. 
 
 

 


Last Updated on Saturday, 12 December 2009 06:12
 

Could Jupiter Moon Harbor Fish-Size Life?

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In the oceans of a moon hundreds of millions of miles from the sun, something fishy may be alive—right now.

Below its icy crust Jupiter's moon Europa is believed to host a global ocean up to a hundred miles (160 kilometers) deep, with no land to speak of at the surface. (See "Jupiter Moon Has Violent, Hidden Oceans, Study Suggests.")

europa (jupiter moon) picture

And the extraterrestrial ocean is currently being fed more than a hundred times more oxygen than previous models had suggested, according to provocative new research.

That amount of oxygen would be enough to support more than just microscopic life-forms: At least three million tons of fishlike creatures could theoretically live and breathe on Europa, said study author Richard Greenberg of the University of Arizona in Tucson.

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 November 2009 14:56
 
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