The MELFI Shuffle: Contingency Planning for Preserving Samples
Posted by brandoniswrite on October 30, 2010
The International Space Station is a unique laboratory, due to its microgravity environment, but it still shares similarities with Earth-bound research facilities. Both perform experiments as part of their research goals, yielding various samples from which they collect data towards results. These samples can require preservation in refrigerators and freezers. A recent malfunction of a [...]
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Tags: Contingency, MELFI, planning, Preserving, Samples, Shuffle
AP sources: Panetta to Pentagon, Petraeus to CIA
Posted by brandoniswrite on October 29, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) – Administration sources say President Barack Obama plans this week to name CIA Director Leon Panetta to replace Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and Gen. David Petraeus, now running the war in Afghanistan, would take the CIA chief's job. www2.wnct.com – National
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PSLV-C16 launch successful
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India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle- C16 placed on a 822-km sunsynchronous orbit three satellites – ResourceSat – 2, an Indo-Russian YouthSat and Singapore’s first satellite X Sat, on Wednesday. The launch went off as per schedule and the satellites were placed in orbit 18 minutes after blast off from the launch pad at the Sriharikota [...]
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The MELFI Shuffle: Contingency Planning for Preserving Samples
Posted by brandoniswrite on
The International Space Station is a unique laboratory, due to its microgravity environment, but it still shares similarities with Earth-bound research facilities. Both perform experiments as part of their research goals, yielding various samples from which they collect data towards results. These samples can require preservation in refrigerators and freezers. A recent malfunction of a [...]
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Tags: Contingency, MELFI, planning, Preserving, Samples, Shuffle
NASA’s Swift and Hubble Probe Asteroid Collision Debris
Posted by brandoniswrite on October 27, 2010
Late last year, astronomers noticed an asteroid named Scheila had unexpectedly brightened, and it was sporting short-lived plumes. Data from NASA‘s Swift satellite and Hubble Space Telescope showed these changes likely occurred after Scheila was struck by a much smaller asteroid. Faint dust plumes bookend asteroid (596) Scheila, which is overexposed in this composite. [...]
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Tags: Asteroid, Collision, Debris, Hubble, NASA's, Probe, Swift
Fast-Rotating Asteroid Winks For Astronomer’s Camera
Posted by brandoniswrite on October 26, 2010
Video imaging of newly discovered asteroid 2011 GP59 shows the object appearing to blink on and off about once every four minutes. Amateur astronomers, including Nick James of Chelmsford, Essex, England, have captured video of the interesting object. James generated this video of GP59 on the night of Monday, April 11. The video, captured with [...]
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Tags: Asteroid, Astronomer's, Camera, FastRotating, Winks
53 Students head to DC for US poetry finals
Posted by brandoniswrite on October 25, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) – Fifty-three students are traveling to Washington to represent their states in the National Finals of Poetry Out Loud competition. www2.wnct.com – National
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NASA Telescopes Join Forces to Observe Unprecedented Explosion
Posted by brandoniswrite on October 22, 2010
NASA’s Swift, Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to study one of the most puzzling cosmic blasts yet observed. More than a week later, high-energy radiation continues to brighten and fade from its location. Astronomers say they have never seen anything this bright, long-lasting and variable before. Usually, gamma-ray bursts mark [...]
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Tags: Explosion, Forces, Join, NASA..., Observe, Telescopes, Unprecedented
NASA’s Next Generation Space Telescope Marks Key Milestone
Posted by brandoniswrite on October 20, 2010
The first six of 18 segments that will form NASA‘s James Webb Space Telescope’s primary mirror for space observations will begin final round-the-clock cryogenic testing this week. These tests will confirm the mirrors will respond as expected to the extreme temperatures of space prior to integration into the telescope’s permanent housing structure. The X-ray and [...]
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Tags: Generation, Marks, MILESTONE, NASA's, Next, Space, Telescope
Mars Rover’s ‘Gagarin’ Moment Applauded Exploration
Posted by brandoniswrite on October 18, 2010
A flat, light-toned rock on Mars visited by NASA‘s Mars Exploration Rover in 2005 informally bears the name of the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, who rode into orbit in the Soviet Union’s Vostok-1 spacecraft on April 12, 1961. The team using Opportunity to explore the Meridiani Planum region of Mars since 2004 chose [...]
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Tags: 'Gagarin', Applauded, Exploration, Mars', Moment, Rover's
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