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- U.S., India to collaborate on Mars exploration, Earth-observing mission
- Rosetta to deploy lander on November 12
- NASA's Swift mission observes mega flares from nearby red dwarf star
- Astronomers find 'cousin' planets around twin stars
| U.S., India to collaborate on Mars exploration, Earth-observing mission Posted: 30 Sep 2014 04:49 PM PDT In a meeting Sept. 30, 2014 in Toronto, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and K. Radhakrishnan, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), signed two documents to launch a NASA-ISRO satellite mission to observe Earth and establish a pathway for future joint missions to explore Mars. |
| Rosetta to deploy lander on November 12 Posted: 30 Sep 2014 04:47 PM PDT The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission will deploy its lander, Philae, to the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Nov. 12. Philae's landing site, currently known as Site J, is located on the smaller of the comet's two "lobes," with a backup site on the larger lobe. |
| NASA's Swift mission observes mega flares from nearby red dwarf star Posted: 30 Sep 2014 02:15 PM PDT On April 23, NASA's Swift satellite detected the strongest, hottest, and longest-lasting sequence of stellar flares ever seen from a nearby red dwarf star. The initial blast from this record-setting series of explosions was as much as 10,000 times more powerful than the largest solar flare ever recorded. |
| Astronomers find 'cousin' planets around twin stars Posted: 30 Sep 2014 06:04 AM PDT Astronomers have found two new Jupiter-sized extra-solar planets, each orbiting one star of a binary-star system. Most known extra-solar planets orbit stars that are alone, like our Sun. Yet many stars are part of binary systems, twin stars formed from the same gas cloud. Now, for the first time, two stars of a binary system are both found to host a "hot Jupiter'' exoplanet. |
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