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Look, Sir -- Droids!
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
09/19/06 |
| Summary: Arizona tourists thought they'd stumbled upon a science fiction movie set if they found themselves near the state's famed Meteor Crater. Though they didn't get a glimpse of R2D2 or C3PO, they did see robots, rovers and space-suited subjects with latest interplanetary gear trekking over some of the state's harshest topography. |
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Visual Confirmation of Moon SMARTs
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
09/10/06 |
| Summary: Through infrared observations with its newly installed infra-red mosaic camera WIRCam, the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope offered a stunning image of the crash of the European spacecraft Smart-1, a very bright flash on the low-contrast landscape lit by earthshine. |
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Smart-1 Smackdown
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
09/03/06 |
| Summary: The European Space Agency's Smart-1 mission ended on September 3rd 2006, at 07:42 CEST (05:42 UT). Its final lunar resting place is located at 46.2º West longitude and 34.4º South latitude. Appropriately for such a successful mission, this area of the Moon is known as the 'Lake of Excellence'. |
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Traitorous T-Cells
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
09/02/06 |
| Summary: During the Apollo moon missions, 15 out of 29 astronauts developed infections. Subsequent experiments aboard Skylab and several space shuttle missions confirmed that T-cells do not activate properly in microgravity. |
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A One-Two Particle Punch
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
08/29/06 |
| Summary: It doesn't just matter how much radiation an astronaut is exposed to, time and the order in which charged particles strike human cells are important factors as well. |
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Sneezing in Space
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
08/26/06 |
| Summary: When space shuttle Atlantis next rockets into space, it will take along three kinds of microbes so scientists can study how their genetic responses and their ability to cause disease change. |
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AMASEing Mars
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
08/14/06 |
| Summary: High in the Arctic, just below Earth's north polar ice cap, a collaboration of nearly two dozen biologists, geologists, and engineers have embarked on an expedition to Mars. |
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Linking the Earth to the Moon
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
08/03/06 |
| Summary: Apollo turned our distant moon into the very edge of the human frontier, and rocks collected during that mission helped reveal the moon's evolutionary history. In this essay, Bernard Foing describes current scientific research that continues to teach us about the history of the moon. |
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Would Our Bones Make it to Mars?
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
07/18/06 |
| Summary: Astronauts who travel in space are at risk for bone loss in much the same way that cancer patients who receive radiation therapy are, and both groups are more likely to develop fractures than the general population. |
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The Robotic Side of Aurora
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
07/13/06 |
| Summary: As part of ESA's ambitious, long-term Aurora exploration programme, ExoMars will search for traces of life on Mars. The mission requires entirely new technologies for self-controlled robots, built-in autonomy and cutting-edge visual terrain sensors. |
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