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Grappling With Space DebrisBethesda MD (SPX) Mar 23, 2010 One of the hot issues within the space community is how to deal with orbiting debris. The first thing that we need to do is understand the problem. There are literally millions of pieces of orbiting junk that have been left in space by the world's space-farring nations over the past 50 years. Now we have a galactic mess on our hands. What do we do now? The first question is: Why do anything? We know it would be expensive to just go into space to pick up the trash. Nobody wants to pay for it. It is ... read more |
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Columbus OH (SPX) Mar 09, 2010The massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck the west coast of Chile last month moved the entire city of Concepcion at least 10 feet to the west, and shifted other parts of South America as far apart as the Falkland Islands and Fortaleza, Brazil. These preliminary measurements, produced from data gathered by researchers from four universities and several agencies, including geophysicis ... more  
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 08, 2010Flowing lava can carve or build paths very much like the riverbeds and canyons etched by water, and this probably explains at least one of the meandering channels on the surface of Mars. These results were presented on March 4, 2010 at the 41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference by Jacob Bleacher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. Whether channels on Mars were formed ... more  
Washington (AFP) March 7, 2010General David Petraeus, the head of US Central Command, warned Sunday that Iran is becoming a "thugocracy" in attempts to suppress popular anger over last year's contested presidential vote results. "I think you've heard it said by pundits that Iran has gone from being a theocracy to a thugocracy," Petraeus, whose command stretches from Egypt to Pakistan and includes Iran, said on CNN's "Far ... more |
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NASA to launch latest high-tech weather satelliteWashington (AFP) March 3, 2010 The United States is poised to launch Thursday the latest in its family of high-tech meteorological satellites that watch storm development and weather conditions on Earth from high in space. The launch window for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-P (GOES-P) will open at 6:17 pm (2317 GMT) on Thursday and close an hour later, US space agency NASA said in a statement. A Delta IV rocket will carry the satellite to its orbit around 22,000 miles (35,406 kilometers) above the Eart ... read more |
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