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Written by Alan Buis - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. / Beth Hagenauer - NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
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Wednesday, 27 January 2010 09:37 |
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NASA Airborne Radar to Study Quake Faults in Haiti, Dominican Republic
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http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-031&cid=release_2010-031
PASADENA, Calif. - In response to the disaster in Haiti on Jan. 12, NASA has added a series of science overflights of earthquake faults in Haiti and the Dominican Republic on the island of Hispaniola to a previously scheduled three-week airborne radar campaign to Central America.
NASA's Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar, or UAVSAR, left NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif., on Jan. 25 aboard a modified NASA Gulfstream III aircraft.
During its trek to Central America, which will run through mid-February, the repeat-pass L-band wavelength radar, developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., will study the structure of tropical forests; monitor volcanic deformation and volcano processes; and examine Mayan archeology sites. |
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Written by Staff Writer - BBC News
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Tuesday, 12 January 2010 19:42 |
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Nasa check for 'unlikely' survival of Mars lander
Nasa's Mars Odyssey orbiter is set to listen for possible radio transmissions from the Phoenix Mars lander, to check if it has survived the Martian winter. The agency said that communication from the lander was "extremely unlikely". Phoenix's last communication was on 2 November 2008, after it completed its study of an arctic Martian site. Since then, this landing site has gone through autumn, winter and part of spring, and Phoenix was not designed to survive such temperature extremes. Its electronics are likely to have broken up as temperatures plummeted. But, just in case, Odyssey will pass over the Phoenix landing site approximately 10 times each day during three consecutive days of listening, beginning on 18 January. It will undertake two longer "listening campaigns" in February and March. |
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Written by Whitney Clavin - Jet Propulsion Laboratory / J.D. Harrington - NASA - DC / Michael Mewhinney - Ames
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Tuesday, 05 January 2010 13:36 |
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Galaxy Exposes Its Dusty Inner Workings in New Spitzer Image
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http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-003&cid=release_2010-003
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured an action-packed picture of the nearby Small Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that looks like a wispy cloud when seen from Earth.
From Spitzer's perch up in space, the galaxy's clouds of dust and stars come into clear view. The telescope's infrared vision reveals choppy piles of recycled stardust -- dust that is being soaked up by new star systems and blown out by old ones.
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Written by Jane Platt - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Tuesday, 05 January 2010 20:23 |
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JPL Mourns Passing of Former Director Lew Allen Jr.
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http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-004&cid=release_2010-004
A former director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Lew Allen Jr., passed away Monday night, Jan. 4, at the age of 84, in Potomac Falls, Va. He led the laboratory from 1982 till 1990, during a period that included the launches of the Galileo mission to Jupiter, Magellan to Venus and the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, as well as Voyager 2's Uranus and Neptune flybys. Allen was born Dec. 30, 1925, in Miami. He studied at the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and had a distinguished career in the U.S. Army and the Air Force, where he remained until 1982, achieving the rank of four-star general and serving as Chief of Staff of the Air Force. |
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Written by Jonathan Amos - BBC News
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Monday, 04 January 2010 20:30 |
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Mars' ancient lake beds spied by Nasa probe
New images of Mars suggest the Red Planet had large lakes on its surface as recently as three billion years ago. The evidence comes from Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) which spied a series of depressions linked by what look like drainage channels. Scientists tell the journal Geology that the features bear the hallmarks of being produced by liquid water.But they appear to have formed much later in Mars' history than many thought possible, the researchers add. The team, from Imperial and University Colleges London, studied pictures of several flat-floored depressions located above Ares Vallis, a giant gorge running some 2,000km across Mars' equator.The hollows are about 20km in diameter. |
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