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Smithsonian December 2006 Eric Jaffe |
Clues from a Comet The first mission to collect space matter from beyond the moon offers insights into the solar system's creation. |
Popular Mechanics April 2006 Leslie Sabbagh |
Survival of the Oldest Payload Ever: The Stardust Spacecraft Returns to Earth After seven years and 2.9 billion miles, the Stardust spacecraft sent back to Earth the oldest material ever collected. |
Geotimes February 2007 Cassandra Willyard |
Surprise! Stardust Lands Actual Stardust The dust is clearing around a cosmic puzzle that has long piqued the interest of astronomers. Tiny grains of dust, no larger than the width of a human hair, are revealing the conditions in which the solar system, and perhaps life, got its start. |
Geotimes January 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
Stardust Landing a Smashing Success Seven years after its launch, NASA's Stardust spacecraft concluded its 4.6-billion-kilometer roundtrip journey to fly through the tail of a comet and collect dust samples, which astronomers hope will offer insight about the formation of our solar system. |
Geotimes November 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Genesis Crashes with Pieces of the Sun The world watched last September as the spacecraft Genesis, launched in 1998, returned to Earth with a crash-landing on Utah's desert floor. |
Chemistry World September 12, 2010 Mike Brown |
Comet shockwaves helped stimulate life on Earth The shock waves caused as comets hit the early Earth could have helped promote the formation of amino acids and the early building blocks of life, say US researchers. |
Chemistry World July 30, 2015 Andy Extance |
Philae poses comet chemistry conundrum As the Philae lander bounced across comet 67P/Churyumov -- Gerasimenko's surface in November last year, two chemical instruments were able to take tentative -- but intriguingly contradictory -- sniffs of its environment. |
Geotimes November 2005 Kathryn Hansen |
Comet Full of Fluff Investigations will turn up many clues as researchers have only started to sift through the data uncovered from the Deep Impact crater. |
Popular Mechanics September 2006 |
Scientists Are Finding Life In Earth's Coldest, Hottest, Weirdest Places By creating an alternative life chemistry in the lab, astrobiologist Steven Benner hopes to uncover a formula for alien microbes. How five big questions about life on our planet are shaping the search for it on other worlds. |
Geotimes December 2006 |
Top Space News Stories of 2006 Titan's Earthly and Unearthly Features... Space Technologies Fly, Lift and Roll on...Deep Impact Still Impresses... etc. |
Chemistry World November 19, 2014 Emma Stoye |
Philae detects organics on comet's surface The first measurements taken by the Philae lander, which touched down on Comet 67P on 12 November, reveal organic compounds are present on the comet's surface, and also hint at a dense, icy interior. |
Geotimes July 2005 Lisa Pinsker |
Deep Impact Strikes Back The scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) cheered yesterday as they received confirmation that the Deep Impact probe successfully hit its target, comet Tempel 1, after six months' and hundreds of millions of miles' worth of journey. |
IEEE Spectrum April 2012 Gregory L. Matloff |
Deflecting Asteroids A solar sail could use light to nudge an earthbound rock into an orbit we could live with |
Geotimes July 2005 McFadden & Schultz |
Collision Course: Deep Impact The Deep Impact project will shed light on some fundamental scientific questions about comets, including what they are made of and how they formed. |
Chemistry World January 22, 2015 Andy Extance |
Comet 67P's carbon blanket promises solar system birth insights A layer of organic material unlike anything seen on any other comet humans have studied enfolds comet 67P/Churyumov -- Gerasimenko, Rosetta probe scientists have revealed. |
Geotimes January 2007 Sally Adee |
Meteorite Pre-Dates Solar System When the Tagish Lake meteorite crashed to Earth in 2000, researchers suspected that it would provide one more clue to the origin of life, but instruments were not yet sophisticated enough to confirm a connection. That connection could soon turn up. |
Geotimes January 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Bombing a Comet Yesterday at 1:47 p.m. EST, NASA successfully launched a rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., carrying the Deep Impact spacecraft toward its rendezvous with a comet. |
InternetNews July 5, 2005 Roy Mark |
NASA'S Comet Collision Explodes in 'Net Traffic Deep Impact's spectacular collision with the comet Tempel 1 resulted in an explosion of record traffic to the NASA Web site to see how it looked. |
Popular Mechanics May 7, 2009 Mark Anderson |
When Comets Attack: Solving the Mystery of the Biggest Natural Explosion in Modern History Scientists today think a small fragment of a comet or asteroid caused the "Tunguska event," so named for the Tunguska river in Siberia. |
Popular Mechanics March 2007 Jennifer Bogo |
NASA Mission Statement Q&A: Eyes on Earth Interview with a professor involved in a study to find out how Earth scientists view NASA's shifting priorities and how it may affect the study of the planet. |
Geotimes March 2005 Joseph Richard Gutheinz |
Marketing an Asteroid Threat NASA would prefer to market its successes, but with a mixed bag of successes and failures lately, they have opted for a new public relations ploy: fear -- whether it be fear of the environment or fear of asteroids. |
Chemistry World July 13, 2012 Simon Hadlington |
Where did Earth's water come from? One big question that remains unanswered about the evolution of the early Earth is how volatiles such as hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon arrived -- their presence being crucial to the origins of water and life. |
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Joshua J. Romero |
Mars For The Rest Of Us Better cameras, greater bandwidth, and bigger displays put Mars within reach of armchair explorers and by maximizing what can be done from the ground NASA can make Mars exploration politically sustainable and financially worthwhile. |
Geotimes August 2006 Carolyn Gramling |
Todd Hoeksema: A Flare for All Things Solar The researcher at the Wilcox Solar Observatory at Stanford University in California helped NASA create a new "roadmap" for future solar physics research. |
Wired December 2004 Brendan I. Koerner |
NASA's Germbuster A cell biologist at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, Noonan chairs this committee charged with keeping future spacecraft from contaminating distant worlds and vice-versa. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2013 Stephen Cass |
App Watch: The Final Frontier -- on Your Phone NASA brings its missions to the smallest screen |
Chemistry World October 29, 2015 Emma Stoye |
Rosetta detects oxygen on comet 67P Molecular oxygen has been detected in the cloud of gas surrounding comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by the Rosetta space probe. |
Science News August 25, 2007 |
Timeline: From the August 21, 1937, Issue A Tower to Stop the Sun... New Comet is Discovered; Finsler's Has Second Tail... Sex Found in One-Celled Animal Considered Sexless... |
Popular Mechanics November 2006 Logan Ward |
Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Awards 2006 The visionaries who have received these awards have attacked the energy crisis with a better light bulb, saved lives with replacement organs, fought Third World poverty with a low-tech peanut sheller, and more... Most brilliant products of 2006... |
Popular Mechanics February 2, 2010 Jennifer Bogo |
X Prize CEO Thinks Obama's 2010 NASA Budget Good for Space The new approach NASA has taken has laid the foundation for the Google, Cisco and Apple computers of space to be born. And, ultimately, lays the foundation for the rest of us to have a chance to get to go to space. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 |
NASA probe uses Express Logic software NASA engineers used ThreadX software to manage cameras and collect data during the Deep Impact Probe mission intended to collide with deep-space comet Tempel 1. |
Geotimes July 2005 Megan Sever |
Making a Public Impact What the public observes or, better yet, captures on film both during the Deep Impact comet collision and in the weeks before and after, could prove useful to the team of NASA scientists trying to understand the comet and the effects of the impact. |