Tuesday, November 1, 2016

NASA's Juno Probe Sidelined Just Before Jupiter Flyby and other top stories.

  • NASA's Juno Probe Sidelined Just Before Jupiter Flyby

    NASA's Juno Probe Sidelined Just Before Jupiter Flyby
    NASA's Juno spacecraft has encountered its second problem at Jupiter in less than a week. The probe went into a protective "safe mode" at 1:47 a.m. EDT (0547 GMT) this morning (Oct. 19), preventing the spacecraft from gathering any data during today's ...
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  • 2 quake faults in the Bay Area could rupture together, causing major devastation, scientists say

    2 quake faults in the Bay Area could rupture together, causing major devastation, scientists say
    The most dangerous earthquake fault in the San Francisco Bay Area is connected to another, which means both could rupture simultaneously and unleash major devastation, a new study finds.The Hayward Fault has long been considered a threat because it runs under densely populated neighborhoods east of San Francisco. The new study found that beneath San Pablo Bay, it joins with a second, less active underground fracture to the north. Scientists had already considered the possibility of both faults..
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  • Did the Mysterious 'Planet Nine' Tilt the Solar System?

    Did the Mysterious 'Planet Nine' Tilt the Solar System?
    Artist's illustration of the putative Planet Nine, which may lie undiscovered in the outer solar system. Credit: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC). PASADENA, Calif. — The putative "Planet Nine" may have tilted the entire solar system, researchers say. In January ...
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  • European Spacecraft Reaches Mars Orbit, But Lander's Fate Uncertain

    European Spacecraft Reaches Mars Orbit, But Lander's Fate Uncertain
    Europe succeeded in placing a methane-sniffing spacecraft in orbit around Mars today (Oct. 19), but it's still unclear if that probe's piggyback lander made it safely down to the planet's surface as planned. The Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), part of the ...
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  • Accidental discovery could be renewable energy breakthrough

    Accidental discovery could be renewable energy breakthrough
    In an unexpected twist of fate, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a process to turn carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into ethanol fuel — a breakthrough with implications for the future of renewable energy.That discovery, which occurred in 2014 and has been replicated multiple times since then in the nanotechnology lab Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is explained in full in a new study published in ChemistrySelect.The finding was serendipitous, lead stu..
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  • Those Ancient Stone Tools — Did Humans Make Them, Or Was It Really Monkeys?

    Those Ancient Stone Tools — Did Humans Make Them, Or Was It Really Monkeys?
    Enlarge this image Capuchin monkeys use a detached flake as an active hammerstone, possibly in order to produce quartz dust. M.Haslam/Nature hide caption toggle caption M.Haslam/Nature Capuchin monkeys use a detached flake as an active hammerstone, possibly in order to produce quartz dust. M.Hasla..
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  • Clouds on Pluto? Dwarf Planet's Weather Gets Weirder

    Clouds on Pluto? Dwarf Planet's Weather Gets Weirder
    Scientists from NASA's New Horizons mission have identified some cloud candidates in the atmosphere of Pluto, using images taken by the New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager and Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera, during the ...
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