007-Style Retrieval of Solar Particles
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In a piece of aerial razzle-dazzle worthy of a James Bond movie, a NASA spacecraft is scheduled to drop a capsule into Earth&#39;s atmosphere Wednesday, and a helicopter waiting in the skies over
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The Genesis probe, which left Earth in 2001 to gather particles blown off the Sun, returns its samples on Wednesday.
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Balloon flight success for budget von Brauns Students from the University of Cambridge "Spaceflight" project last week pulled off quite a coup when they successfully dispatched an experimental electronics package into the upper atmosphere strapped to a weather balloon, in the process capturing some impressive images of planet Earth from a peak altitude of 32.2km (105,600ft)â¦
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The Genesis desert crash has left scientists wondering about the delicate condition of its solar wind collection. The first release of samples to the community has begun, while new tests for oxygen-isotopes may help uncover which particles might have lunar, solar or terrestrial origins.
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Forget e-mail. How about space mail? In an experiment combining elements of a package delivery service, the sport of kite surfing and a REALLY big fishing reel, Russian and European engineers on Tuesday sought to pioneer a technology that could be used in the future to retrieve cargo from space.
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Satellite images of the world in 2007
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Les versions allemande, franÃ§aise et nÃ©erlandaise sont dÃ©sormais disponibles. La version italienne sera bientÃ´t accessible. Copernic et son partenaire de dÃ©veloppement Ã©conomique international Contraco
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One pole of the sun is cooler than the other. That's the surprising conclusion announced today by scientists who have been analyzing data from the ESA-NASA Ulysses spacecraft.
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An international team of astronomers believe they have solved a mystery that has been perplexing scientists for 100 years -- the origin of cosmic rays.
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neutron_p writes &quot;An international team of astronomers has produced the first ever image of an astronomical object using high energy gamma rays, helping to solve a 100 year old mystery - an origin of cosmic rays.
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Observing the image of a faint object that lies close to a star is a demanding task as the object is generally hidden in the glare of the star. Characterising this object, by taking spectra, is an even harder challenge.
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The first solar-wind samples recovered from the crashed Genesis space capsule have been sent to researchers in California.
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A U.S.-led team of scientists says the samples of comet dust returned to Earth early this year suggest some cosmic theories may have to be reconsidered.  The samples were collected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Stardust mission that was launched in 1999.
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Data from the far reaches of outer space have been streaming into Dan Reisenfeld&#39;s computer at the University of Montana since late Wednesday.
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Description: We check in with the progress of search for extraterrestrial intelligence. A paper published this week in the journal Nature argues that for sending lots of data over long distances, it&#39;s hard
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European Space Agency -- ESAÃ¢ÂÂs quartet of space-weather watchers, Cluster, has discovered vortices of ejected solar material high above the Earth.     The superheated gases trapped in these structures are probably tunnelling their way into the EarthÃ¢ÂÂs magnetic Ã¢ÂÂbubbleÃ¢ÂÂ, the magnetosphere...
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IBM Corp. researchers are touting one of the tiniest pieces of art ever made &#151; an image of the sun made from 20,000 microscopic particles of gold. The precision required is a breakthrough that heralds ultra-miniature sensors, lenses and wires inside nanoscale circuits of the future.