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| by William Atkins | |
| Tuesday, 16 December 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 4 NASA RETURNS TO THE MOON WITH INSTRUMENTS ON INDIAN SPACECRAFT Featured Whitepaper
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Science DiscussionsCheck out the Moon Mineralogy Mapper and Mini-RF. HUBBLE FINDS PLANET CIRCLING A DISTANT STAR “Astronomers announced in 2008 that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star. Observations … by the coronagraph on Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys showed the object orbiting around a star named Fomalhaut. The planet, called Fomalhaut b, is approximately 10 times the distance of Saturn from our sun. Estimated to be as much as three times Jupiter's mass, Fomalhaut b is located 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Australis, or the 'Southern Fish' ....” See “A planet orbiting another star” for more. INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION NEARS COMPLETION ON 10TH ANNIVERSARY “NASA completed four space shuttle missions in 2008 to deliver modules and hardware to the International Space Station, allowing it to grow in size, volume and science capability.... Nov. 20 was the 10th anniversary of the launch of Zarya, a Russian control module that was the station's first component. In the decade since Zarya arrived in orbit, the station has grown to become the largest spacecraft ever built. Its mass has expanded to more than 313 tons, and its interior volume is more than 25,000 cubic feet, comparable to the size of a five-bedroom house....” For more information, go to “International Space Station 10th Anniversary” Page three continues with more ... |
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