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The "vibrating" done to get the first Mars arctic soil sample into Phoenix's TEGA (Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer) oven may have caused a short circuit that could happen again the next time the oven is used, perhaps with fatal results.
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But I finally realized (late in the day) today is Wednesday, and its time for another "Where In The Universe" challenge. So, here's an image, and your mission is to guess where in the universe this picture was taken. No peeking below for the answer until you've made your guess.
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Read GLAST Powers Up (Links)
But the mission made a surprising and unexpected discovery by detecting particles from the edge of the solar system, and for the first time, scientists have now been able to map the region where the hot solar wind meets up with the cold interstellar medium.
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GEMS won't study the X-ray emission of these objects directly, but will build up a picture indirectly by measuring the polarization of X-rays emitted from these violent regions. Read the rest of Proposed Mission Could Study Space-Time Around Black Holes (373 words)
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With the Phoenix Mars lander in full science-operation-swing, the robotic arm has just scraped an "almost perfect" mix of regolith and water ice for its next analysis. Read the rest of "Almost Perfect" Samples are Scraped From Mars Surface For Analysis (347 words)
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Read Canada to build World's First Asteroid-hunting Satellite (Links)
On the other side of the pond, French President Nicolas Sarkozy also wants NASA's European counterpart, ESA, to do better. Read the rest of President Sarkozy and the French (Space) Revolution (Updated) (661 words)
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Remnants of this supernova are still visible to telescopes, and the Hubble Space Telescope captured this close-up a filament of the shock wave of the explosion, still reverberating through space, seen here against the grid of background stars.
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The world knows the huge potential China and Russia have for space exploration. Now, the most famous NASA ex-employee and second man on the Moon, Buzz Aldrin has voiced warnings that the US could lose its grip on space and begin to be left behind by Russia and China…
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