positive Space news
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‘Space lift’ competition takes placeA competition has been held in the US to prove that creating an elevator that could be used to send people into space is possible. |
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Smos begins climate change missionA mission to launch a new satellite which will monitor climate change has got off to a successful start. |
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NASA releases detailed pictures of MarsNASA has released thousands of high-resolution images of Mars, taken from the Mars Reconaissance Orbiter (MRO). |
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Microbe found two miles under Greenland ice is reawakened from a 120,000-year sleepA tiny purple bug that has been buried under nearly two miles of ice for 120,000 years has been revived in a lab. |
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Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic spaceships finished by December 2009Sir Richard Branson told Google's Zeitgeist conference Virgin Galactic spaceships will be ready for testing by December 2009 and are on track to be carbon neutral. |
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Europe unveils British astronautTimothy Peake, a 37-year-old test pilot in the Army Air Corps, has been accepted into the European Space Agency's (Esa) Astronaut Corps. |
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Hubble gyros fixed after struggleAstronauts have completed the most critical repair to the Hubble Space Telescope after a long struggle. |
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Earth, observedGreenbelt, Maryland, USA - The Earth Observatory is a website run by NASA's Earth Observing System Project Science Office (EOSPSO). |
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Supersonic water jets shoot from Saturn moonBoulder, Colorado, USA - Supersonic jets of water vapour are blasting from Saturn's moon Enceladus, reveal observations from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. |
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Two studies show the first direct images of planets outside our solar system, including a three-planet system.
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science news headlines
- New road concrete developed that actually cleans the air
- Cannabis electric car to be made in Canada
- Big Bear Solar Observatory: The Most Detailed Picture of a Sunspot Ever Recorded
- Scientists hope to collect electricity from the air
- Rich exoplanet system discovered
- Ultraviolet light reveals how Greek statues really looked
- Spray-on film turns glass into solar panels
- Solar power plant plans move ahead in California
- Mysterious tunnel discovered under Mexican ruins
- Innovative India water plant opens in Madras
- Mars site may hold buried life
- Paralyzed may soon steer wheelchair with just a sniff
- 700 new planets discovered by NASA
- Archaeologists unearth Neolithic henge at Stonehenge
- Pann-Starrs telescope begins operations to hunt asteroids
- How lasers will light up the future of medicine
- Resurrected: woolly mammoth blood protein
- Sony aims for zero footprint
- Government pledges cash for eco-drivers
- Typos may earn Google £320m a year
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