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NASA Image of the Day, Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:18:19 GMT

Hurricane Celia

Perfectly circular, powerful Hurricane Celia spaned hundreds of miles over the Pacific Ocean in this image from June 24, 2010. Rough-textured clouds surround the storm’s distinct eye. Farther from the center of the storm, spiral arms appear thinner and smoother. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS, on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this true-color image of Hurricane Celia at 1:55 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time on June 24, 2010. Just five minutes later, the U.S. National Hurricane Center classified Celia as a Category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of 135 miles per hour. Image Credit: NASA

http://feeds.feedburner.com/spacespin?format=xml, Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:18:19 GMT

Martian dust devil whirls into Opportunity's view

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Space Wire Top Stories, Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:18:19 GMT

IceCube spies unexplained pattern of cosmic rays

NASA Selects Sounding Rockets Operations Contractor

Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity 28 July 2010

Cassini-Huygens Latest, Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:08:50 GMT

Rhea Past Rings

The Cassini spacecraft looks past Saturn's rings and small moon Janus to spy the planet's second largest moon, Rhea. Janus is closest to Cassini here. The rings are between Janus and Rhea. Lit terrain seen on Rhea is on the leading hemisphere of that moon. This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from just above the ringplane.

Rhea Past Rings

The Cassini spacecraft looks past Saturn's rings and small moon Janus to spy the planet's second largest moon, Rhea.

Chasma Crescent

Sunlight illuminates the deep cut of Ithaca Chasma on Saturn's moon Tethys.

SPACE.com, Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:18:19 GMT

Space Farms Could Mine Minerals From Moon Dirt

Future missions to the Moon or Mars could use plants as bio-harvesters to extract valuable elements from the alien soils

Huge Star Burns Fast and Furious in Photo

A bright hot star with more than 70 times the mass of our sun will live fast and die young.

Massive Black Hole Bends Light to Magnify Distant Galaxy

A giant black hole spouting energy from inside a galaxy is acting like a cosmic magnifying glass, giving astronomers a clear view of an even more distant galaxy behind it.

NASA Breaking News, Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:18:19 GMT

NASA Sets Briefing To Preview Space Station Spacewalk

NASA managers will discuss an upcoming spacewalk at the International Space Station during a news briefing at 1 p.m. CDT on Tuesday, Aug. 3.

NASA Opens Online Voting For Next Desert RATS Exploration Site

NASA is inviting the public to choose an area in northern Arizona where explorers will conduct part of the annual Desert Research and Technology Studies, known as Desert RATS.

NASA Selects Sounding Rockets Operations Contractor

NASA selected Orbital Sciences Corp.'s, Technical Services Division in Greenbelt, Md., for the agency's Sounding Rockets Operations contract.

EurekAlert! - Space and Planetary Science, Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:08:50 GMT

Carnegie's Larry Nittler elected meteoritical Fellow

(Carnegie Institution) Department of Terrestrial Magnetism staff member Larry Nittler has been elected a fellow of the Meteoritical Society. Society fellows are "members who have distinguished themselves in meteoritics or allied sciences." Just one percent of the membership can be elected by the society's council on even-numbered years.

IceCube spies unexplained pattern of cosmic rays

(University of Wisconsin-Madison) Though still under construction, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole is already delivering scientific results -- including an early finding about a phenomenon the telescope was not even designed to study.

Brilliant star in a colorful neighborhood

(ESO) A spectacular new image from ESO's Wide Field Imager at the La Silla Observatory in Chile shows the brilliant and unusual star WR 22 and its colorful surroundings. WR 22 is a very hot and bright star that is shedding its atmosphere into space at a rate many millions of times faster than the Sun. It lies in the outer part of the dramatic Carina Nebula from which it formed.

What's New at the Lunar & Planetary Institute Library, Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:08:51 GMT

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ESA Science & Technology, Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:08:52 GMT

Cluster:Cluster makes crucial step in understanding space weather

Researchers using the four spacecraft of ESA's Cluster mission have uncovered the long journey that energetic ions undergo during geomagnetic storms and how they ultimately precipitate into the Earth's atmosphere. Such precipitation affects the composition of the ionosphere, preventing GPS and communications satellites from operating correctly.

Herschel:Special issue of Astronomy & Astrophysics dedicated to Herschel's first results

The first scientific results obtained with Herschel are appearing, this week, in a special issue of the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. Based on data collected during the first few months of operations with this ESA observatory, the 152 new publications tackle a multitude of different astrophysical subjects, ranging from nearby Solar System bodies through newly-forming stars in our Galaxy, all the way to very distant galaxies. These first results provide a clear indication of the profound contribution that this mission will make to astronomy.

Planck:Planck all-sky image depicts galactic mist over the cosmic background

An all-sky image from Planck's recently completed first survey highlights the two major emission sources in the microwave sky: the cosmic background and the Milky Way. The relic radiation coming from the very early Universe is, to a large extent, masked by intervening astronomical sources, in particular by our own Galaxy's diffuse emission. Thanks to Planck's nine frequency channels, and to sophisticated image analysis techniques, it is possible to separate these two contributions into distinct scientific products that are of immense value for cosmologists and astrophysicists, alike.

ScienceDaily: Space & Time News, Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:18:20 GMT

Planets found in unusually intimate dance around dying star

Astronomers have found two extrasolar planetary systems with gas giant planets locked in an orbital embrace. In one system -- a planetary pair orbiting the massive, dying star HD 200964, located roughly 223 light-years from Earth -- the intimate dance is closer and tighter than any previously seen.

NASA simulates space exploration at remote Arctic crater site

NASA personnel are among a group of international researchers who are in the Canadian Arctic assessing concepts for future planetary exploration as part of the Haughton-Mars Project, or HMP-2010. Scientists are using the arid, rocky environment of the Haughton Crater on Devon Island, Canada to simulate conditions that might be encountered by explorers on other planetary bodies. The latest edition of the HMP-2010 began July 19 and includes three weeks of crew and mission control activities and robotic testing.

Clean technology in 'hot water'

What if work performed in space could improve the treatment of household and nuclear waste on Earth? That's what investigators are hoping to do with the results of a fluid physics study in progress on the International Space Station. The experiment, called DECLIC-HTI, is studying supercritical water that could lead to spin-offs in the field of clean technologies for treating waste here on Earth.

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