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Dawn exceeds wildest expectations as first ever spacecraft to orbit a protoplanet - Vesta Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 8:49AMNASA’s super exciting Dawn mission to the Asteroid Belt marked a major milestone in human history by becoming the first ever spacecraft from Planet Earth to achieve orbit around a Protoplanet – Vesta – on July 16. Dawn was launched in September 2007 and was 117 million miles (188 million km) distant from Earth as it was captured by Asteroid Vesta.
Dawn Exceeds Wildest Expectations as First Ever Spacecraft to Orbit a Protoplanet – Vesta Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 9:37PMNASA’s super exciting Dawn mission to the Asteroid Belt marked a major milestone in human history by becoming the first ever spacecraft from Planet Earth to achieve orbit around a Protoplanet – Vesta – on July 16. Dawn was launched in September 2007 and was 117 million miles (188 million km) distant from Earth as [...]
Plug that gap with an awesome adventure Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 6:17PMBen Rigley, a student at Aberystwyth University, reflected: "Dangling on the end of a rope inside an 80ft crevasse – not how I expected to be spending my summer."
Mars mission blasts off in Pilbara Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 8:46PMOne giant leap was taken for mankind in the Pilbara this week when NASA scientists tested spacesuits and technology designed to be used on Mars.
Dawn craft to circle giant asteroid in 1st stop Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 5:33AMAfter four years sailing through space, the Dawn spacecraft was expected to slip into orbit late Friday around a giant asteroid to begin a yearlong investigation into the origins of the solar system.
Outback helps NASA understand Mars Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 9:37PMWestern Australian scientists, high school teachers and students have joined NASA researchers on a trip to the Pilbara to learn more about the planet Mars.
NASA scientists touch down in the Pilbara Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 9:25PMWestern Australian scientists, high school teachers and students have joined NASA researchers on a trip to the Pilbara region to learn more about the planet Mars.
Daily Webcam Images from a Greenhouse on Devon Island Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 3:26PMThese images are sent back more or less daily at roughly the same time of day. One webcam is pointed north at the Arthur Clarke Mars Greenhouse located at the Haughton Mars Project Research Station on Devon island. Another camera is inside.
Traffic mars Kentucky race Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 5:16PMFlashbulbs popped as pole sitter Kyle Busch led the 43-car Sprint Cup field to the green flag at Kentucky Speedway on Saturday night to kick off the long-awaited debut by NASCAR's top series at the 1.5-mile oval.
Traffic nightmare mars Kentucky race Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 2:05PMSPARTA, Ky. (AP) - Flashbulbs popped as pole sitter Kyle Busch led the 43-car Sprint Cup field to the green flag at Kentucky Speedway on Saturday night to kick off the long-awaited debut by NASCAR's top series at the 1.5-mile oval. Yet the real story of the inaugural race at the track tucked among the hills in northern Kentucky was unfolding over the wall behind Turns 3 and 4 as Busch roared to ...
Traffic mars NASCAR debut in Kentucky Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 2:45AMThis article has been read 0 times. SPARTA, Ky. - Flashbulbs popped as pole sitter Kyle Busch led the 43-car Sprint Cup field to the green flag at Kentucky Speedway on Saturday night to kick off the long-awaited debut by NASCAR's top series at the 1.5-mile oval.
ExplorersWeb space shuttle editorial: Final countdown - why we explore Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 1:31PMPosted: Jul 08, 2011 02:09 pm EDT "Exploration can't wait for perfect times and it never has. The Universe expands every second and has no use for stagnant and skittish species." Today's editorial by the founders of ExWeb touches on the last voyage of the shuttle in a perspective of explorers.
Stargazer: Beautiful image not actual photograph Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 12:20AMEmailed art purporting to be a photo of a North Pole sunset is an Internet hoax.
Book review: "Martian Summer" by Andrew Kessler Wednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 2:12AMBy coincidence, a day on Mars and a day on Earth last almost the same amount of time. Almost, but not exactly: Mars spins just a little more slowly, so the time from one sunrise on Mars to the next is 40 minutes longer than the same interval on Earth.
Asheville-area religion calendar Saturday, July 2, 2011 @ 12:32AMSubmit faith-based events, special services at your place of worship or other religion-related happenings at CITIZEN-TIMES.com/submit, e-mail your events to Features Editor Bruce Steele at BSteele@CITIZEN-TIMES.com and Faith Reporter Carole Terrell at cterrell@citizen-times.com or fax them to 251-0585.
Shropshire’s Sky at Night – July Friday, July 1, 2011 @ 3:15AMWhat to look up for during the coming month
Martian mission's strangely affecting Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 2:06AMBy coincidence, a day on Mars and a day on Earth last almost the same amount of time.
Asheville area religion calendar Saturday, June 25, 2011 @ 12:47AMSubmit faith-based events, special services at your place of worship or other religion-related happenings at CITIZEN-TIMES.com/submit, e-mail your events to Features Editor Bruce Steele at BSteele@CITIZEN-TIMES.com and Faith Reporter Carole Terrell at cterrell@citizen-times.com or fax them to 251-0585.
Millville Blotter - romantic dispute mars graduation, arrested under a Jeep, turkey causes alarm Tuesday, June 21, 2011 @ 7:26AMEditor's note: Police on Monday were unable to provide information on bail amounts, or whether some of the accused were taken to the county jail or released on a summons.
POLICE BEAT Tuesday, June 21, 2011 @ 5:12AMAll Items in Police Beat are based on official police reports of events. Reports are published by The Daily Journal as soon as they are made available.
Driving the Lake Michigan Circle Tour on the back of a Harley Saturday, June 18, 2011 @ 11:47PM‘The road is life.” Jack Kerouac wrote that. For me, it’s more like: The road is vacation. I find peace on the highway. Ever since my ex-hippie neighbor goaded me into buying a Harley-Davidson during the height of my midlife crisis, I’ve taken to the road on the biggest two-wheeled rolling couch Milwaukee could muster — a 2007 metallic blue Ultra Classic.During a week of perfect July weather ...
Images reveal ice on parts of Mercury Friday, June 17, 2011 @ 12:38PMLOS ANGELES - Despite its proximity to the sun, portions of the surface of Mercury appear to be covered in ice, scientists said Thursday after analyzing about 20,000 new images of the smallest planet in the solar system.
Ice May Cover Parts of Mercury Friday, June 17, 2011 @ 7:07AMThe planet closest to the sun appears to have more ice at its poles than does Earth's moon, say scientists analyzing data from the Messenger spacecraft. Despite their proximity to the sun, portions of the surface of Mercury appear to be covered in ice, scientists said Thursday after analyzing about 20,000 new images of the solar system's smallest planet.
NASA's Messenger disproves several theories about Mercury Thursday, June 16, 2011 @ 5:52PMScientists grapple with first orbital data provided by mission led by Hopkins Applied Physics Lab Only three months after NASA's Messenger spacecraft became the first to orbit the planet Mercury, scientists are already tossing out some long-held ideas about the place, and wondering at some surprising and unexpected discoveries.
Law & Order Thursday, June 16, 2011 @ 3:37AMTUSCUMBIA Suspects sought in break-ins Police are asking for the public’s help in finding those responsible for numerous break-ins at Westside Baptist Church. Investigators said a projector and laptop were taken during a break in at the church last week. The thieves also tried to get into the church safe, police said.
Awhi Tapu at TAPAC, Auckland - June 22nd – 2nd July 2011 Monday, June 13, 2011 @ 12:42AMWhere do we stand as young people in the community? Who do we follow now all the old people have left?
Messages Flow Into Wailing Wall Monday, June 13, 2011 @ 12:30AMWhanganui UCOL Fine Arts graduate Tom Turner is recycling plastic water bottles into a unique and ever growing work of art.
Frothy Magnetic-Bubble Sea Found at Solar System's Edge Thursday, June 9, 2011 @ 4:30PMLong seen as a shield, the edge of our solar system may really be a sea of magnetic "bubbles" that lets in dangerous rays, NASA says.
NASA Dawn Journal May 27, 2011 Thursday, June 9, 2011 @ 4:27PMDawn remains healthy and on course as it continues to approach Vesta. Thrusting with its ion propulsion system the spacecraft is gradually matching its solar orbit to that of the protoplanet just ahead.
NASA: The edge of the universe is home to 1 million mile-wide magnetic bubbles Thursday, June 9, 2011 @ 2:14PMIf you could fly to the edge of our universe you'd find giant magnetic bubbles about 100 million miles wide. That's what computer models digesting data from NASA's Voyager spacecraft, which are now close to 10 billion miles away from Earth, are suggesting as they try to figure out the information being beamed from the edge of our solar system. Read more
Dunes, Craters and Ice: Just Another Spring on Mars Thursday, June 9, 2011 @ 5:02AM[More]
Springtime at Mars' south pole Wednesday, June 8, 2011 @ 10:05AM(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's Mars Express celebrates eight years in space with a new view of ice in the southern polar region of Mars. The poles are closely linked to the planet’s climate and constantly change with the seasons. Their study is an important scientific objective of the mission.
Springtime at Mars' South Pole Tuesday, June 7, 2011 @ 9:07PMESA's Mars Express celebrates eight years in space with a new view of ice in the southern polar region of Mars. The poles are closely linked to the planet's climate and constantly change with the seasons. Their study is an important scientific objective of the mission.
Springtime on Mars Tuesday, June 7, 2011 @ 2:26PMAmazing new photos of what spring looks like at Mars' south pole
Asheville area religion calendar Saturday, June 4, 2011 @ 7:45AMSubmit faith-based events, special services at your place of worship or other religion-related happenings at CITIZEN-TIMES.com/submit, e-mail your events to Features Editor Bruce Steele at BSteele@CITIZEN-TIMES.com and Faith Reporter Carole Terrell at cterrell@citizen-times.com or fax them to 251-0585.
Shropshire’s Sky at Night – June Thursday, June 2, 2011 @ 4:52AMIn the northern hemisphere, the Summer Solstice occurs at 6.16pm on June 21 when the Sun reaches its most northerly point in the sky.
June Skies Two eclipses this month Wednesday, June 1, 2011 @ 1:08AMMercury passes superior conjunction (directly behind the Sun) on the 12th and then appears in the evening sky low in the southwest beginning on the 22nd. It will remain low for the rest of the month. On the 30th, Mercury will be lined up in a straight line with Castor and Pollux in Gemini. Look west-northwest about 45 minutes after sunset. A pair of binoculars will increase your chances of ...
Minnesota's run in Big Ten Tournament ends Sunday, May 29, 2011 @ 12:04AMMinnesota's run through the Big Ten baseball tournament ended as second-seeded Michigan State snapped the Gophers' three-game winning streak with a 6-3 victory Saturday in Columbus, Ohio.
Top 100 Stories of 2010: #40: Wild Winds Made Mars Gorgeous Saturday, May 28, 2011 @ 6:49PMMars has a wispy atmosphere, with just 0.006 times the surface pressure of Earth. But that is enough to have sculptured one of the most dramatic landscapes in the solar system, University of Texas geophysicist Jack Holt reported in May. The ice cap of Mars’s north pole is marked with enormous gorges ; the largest, Chasma Boreale (jutting upward at right), is deeper and wider than the Grand Canyon.
Top 100 Stories of 2010: The 100 Top Science Stories of 2010 | DISCOVER Saturday, May 28, 2011 @ 6:46PMClick through to view gallery
Space Pictures This Week: Lone Star, Shining Spirit Friday, May 27, 2011 @ 7:40AMA stellar giant sits alone, astronauts return home, a Mars rover ends its run, and more in our editors' picks of the best new space shots.
NW 200: Rutter is red hot, cat's just jammy Friday, May 20, 2011 @ 4:36AMThere was simply no stopping Michael Rutter yesterday. Related Stories North West 200: Daredevil road race proves an irresistible draw Red hot Michael Rutter leaves them trailing in his wake Injured North West rider Stuart Easton transferred to Belfast hospital Stuart Easton crash mars Michael Rutter's day Alastair Seeley almost takes all three poles
Stuart Easton crash mars Michael Rutter's day Friday, May 20, 2011 @ 1:15AMThe man from the Black Country raised a glass of the black stuff in Portstewart’s famous, old Anchor Bar last night — not in toast to his Superbike pole position for Saturday’s Relentless North West 200, but as a get-well-soon gesture to an absent friend. Related Stories North West 200: The unmissable pilgrimage for petrolheads North West 200: Daredevil road race proves an irresistible draw Red ...
Red hot Michael Rutter leaves them trailing in his wake Friday, May 20, 2011 @ 1:14AMThere was simply no stopping Michael Rutter yesterday. Related Stories North West 200: The unmissable pilgrimage for petrolheads North West 200: Daredevil road race proves an irresistible draw Injured North West rider Stuart Easton transferred to Belfast hospital Stuart Easton crash mars Michael Rutter's day Alastair Seeley almost takes all three poles
Michael Rutter races into form for a lucky 13 Friday, May 20, 2011 @ 12:50AMMichael Rutter upset the formbook and the odds to put himself in pole position for the two Superbike races at the North West 200 tomorrow. Related Stories North West 200: Daredevil road race proves an irresistible draw Red hot Michael Rutter leaves them trailing in his wake Injured North West rider Stuart Easton transferred to Belfast hospital Stuart Easton crash mars Michael Rutter's day ...
Living in a Quantum World (preview) Wednesday, May 18, 2011 @ 6:36AMAccording to standard physics textbooks, quantum mechanics is the theory of the microscopic world. It describes particles, atoms and molecules but gives way to ordinary classical physics on the macroscopic scales of pears, people and planets. Somewhere between molecules and pears lies a boundary where the strangeness of quantum behavior ends and the familiarity of classical physics begins. The ...
Violence mars election start Wednesday, May 18, 2011 @ 12:55AMELECTION tensions ran high in some parts of the Eastern Cape on the eve of the local government elections following the bombing of an ANC leader’s home and an alleged assault of a senior ANC member’s sister.
The mysterious ochres of Tiwi Sunday, May 15, 2011 @ 9:00AMA sculpture's irregular hue has provoked wide curiosity.
Coaching staff helped rewrite Le Mars record books Thursday, May 12, 2011 @ 7:55PMLE MARS, Iowa -- Don Shilling is willing to bet that there is no boys track coaching staff in the state with more combined years of experience as the one he leads at Le Mars High School.
Andrew Kessler on his book, Martian Summer Thursday, May 12, 2011 @ 7:14AMWriter Andrew Kessler spent a summer embedded with the NASA mission control team that oversaw the Phoenix Mars Lander. His book, Martian Summer recounts the experience.