[ad_1] The NASA Dawn spacecraft, orbiting the asteroid Ceres, died quietly, the space agency said Thursday. Dawn missed her scheduled recording on Wednesday. Mission officials concluded that the booster propeller was dry …
Read More »Scientists use satellite imagery to track whales from the space
[ad_1] A group of British scientists used high resolution satellite technology to identify whale species from space. Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have begun mapping migration patterns of four different …
Read More »"Hide in plain sight" – The old Milky Way merger with the Gaia-Enceladus fossil galaxy
[ad_1] Posted on November 1, 2018 ESA's Gaia mission made a major breakthrough by unveiling the story of the formation of the Milky Way. Instead of forming alone, our galaxy merged with …
Read More »Location of wastewater disposal drives induced seismicity at US oil sites — ScienceDaily
[ad_1] The depth of the rock layer that serves as the disposal site for wastewater produced during unconventional oil extraction plays a significant role in whether that disposal triggers earthquakes in the …
Read More »NASA removes Kepler, the "little spaceship that could" | New
[ad_1] After nine years of scouring the stars and discovering thousands of new planets, Kepler's space observatory has no more fuel and this week was officially closed by NASA. The spacecraft, designed …
Read More »Launch of a global effort to read the genetic code of all complex life forms on Earth
[ad_1] Launch of a global effort to read the genetic code of all complex life forms on Earth The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), a global project to sequence the genetic code (s) …
Read More »Watching whales from space
[ad_1] Southern Right Whale captured around the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. Credit: Carlos Olavarria Scientists have used detailed high-resolution satellite images provided by Maxar Technologies’ DigitalGlobe, to detect, count and describe …
Read More »Scientists Track Remote Populations Using Satellites
[ad_1] More than 70 percent of the world is covered in ocean: a vast, deep wilderness of water. But scientists are finding ways to study their secrets-without even getting their wet toes. …
Read More »Code génétique de 66 000 espèces britanniques à séquencer
[ad_1] L’effort britannique, connu sous le nom de Darwin Tree of Life Project, est officiellement lancé aujourd’hui à Londres (le 1 er novembre) aux côtés de l’effort mondial Earth BioGenome Project (EBP). …
Read More »Les piles au carbone organique de Mars font allusion à la biologie – «Principales implications pour l’habitabilité»
[ad_1] Publié le 1 novembre 2018 "Révéler les processus par lesquels les composés de carbone organiques se forment sur Mars a été un grand intérêt pour comprendre son potentiel d'habitabilité", a déclaré …
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