Though researchers have been proposing for a very long time that comets contain vast amounts of water, this was never conclusively proven until only recently. A team of experts managed to get definite proof that the liquid can be found within these space wanderers. Importantly, the debate that raged on in the interna... |
6 April 2011
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Following a successful “burn to depletion” maneuver, one of the most enduring missions NASA sent to space finally came to an end yesterday, March 25. The Stardust spacecraft sent its last transmission to Mission Control at 4:33 pm PDT (2333 GMT).The comet-hunting probe had a very rich career, which spanne... |
25 March 2011
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After 12 years of activity, the most active comet-hunting spacecraft NASA ever operated, the Stardust probe, will finally end its activity with a scheduled engine firing called the “burn to depletion.” Even at it is retired from active duty the robotic explorer will provide the space agency with new infor... |
24 March 2011
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A NASA statecraft is currently getting ready for a Valentine's Day visit to a comet making his way through the solar system. The probe, which is already at its third cometary flyby, has just finished adjusting its course, which will take it in the best possible angle to image its target.It is heading for an icy ... |
8 February 2011
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A NASA spacecraft heading for a Valentine's Day flyby of a famous comet has eyes on its target, officials at the American space agency announced recently. Everything appears to be set for the upcoming studies, which are bound to yield more data about comets in general.The Stardust-NExT mission uses a space probe... |
29 January 2011
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The current NASA Stardust probe is a mission aimed at flying thorough the tail of a comet, collecting dust samples, and returning these samples back to Earth. It builds on a previous Stardust mission, which was launched in 1999 and returned home in 2006. The new mission took off in 2007, and is scheduled to meet up w... |
19 February 2010
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Nine years ago, scientists launched a space probe in order to collect material from a comet formed at the far edges of our solar system. Surprisingly, they found out that the comet was comprised of particles similar to those forged in the proximity of the sun. The Stardust probe had been launched from Cape Cana... |
19 September 2008
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The Stardust mission brings surprising new evidence once again. After the initial sample analysis revealed that most of the material inside comet Wild 2 originated in the inner regions of the solar system, now scientists have shown that, against general belief that comets are fluffy dust objects, they could instead h... |
25 January 2008
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A new study involving the origin of the material that composes a comet shows that cometary dust is created in the close proximity of a star during its first stages of life, which is being dissipated towards the outer regions of the solar system as the planetary formation process draws to an end. Material for these ne... |
4 January 2008
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Now this has got to be humiliating... But at least it turns out that even celebrities sometimes learn their lessons and want to prevent other celebrities from making fools of themselves. It happened to Sienna Miller, who despite looking better than usual and being the star attraction on the green carpet at the premie... |
4 October 2007
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"Stardust" is based on the novel and comic series by renowned writer Neil Gaiman and is directed by Mathew Vaughn. And, to be honest, it rocks. Now that the dust (pun intended) has settled on the first craze caused by the movie's release, we can take a good, calm look at it and state again that it's a lot m... |
21 August 2007
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