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ESA recruits participants to fly to Mars
The European Aeronautics Agency (ESA) is recruiting 12 volunteers to participate in a flight simulation study on Mars that lasts up to 17 months.
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Europe launched 5 global observation satellites
The European Space Agency (ESA) is expected to launch 5 Sentinel satellites to track all changes in land, ocean, weather and climate across the Earth. This plan is imple…
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Atlantis crew is ready to return to earth
For nearly 10 days at the ISS International Space Station, astronauts have successfully completed the SST-117 mission, even with the fourth additional planned walk, inst…
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The safe Atlantis returned to Earth
Last night (June 22), the space shuttle Atlantis landed safely at Edwards Air Force Base in California, ending a two-week mission on the Space Station. International (IS…
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Images of two asteroids Ceres and Vesta sent by Hubble
The Hubble Space Telescope has sent images of Ceres dwarf planets and Vesta asteroids, the two largest bodies in the asteroid belt, the area between Mars and Jupiter.
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East Asia's largest telescope
The optical telescope with a diameter of 2.4 m has been installed successfully at the Lijiang Astronomical Observatory, Yunnan Province, China. This is also one of the l…
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NASA tests robots seeking life in space
NASA Space Agency is testing an autonomous underwater robot for a plan to search for life in outer space. The experiment is being carried out at Aldama, in Mexico's Tama…
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What's strange about the toilet on the spaceship?
There is a famous question asked by Prince Philip II, the Queen Elizabeth II husband of the United Kingdom, blurting out when he visited a space center in the United Sta…
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Detecting a planet hot ice
Astronomers from the University of Geneva (Switzerland) have discovered a planet that can be composed of hot ice around a small star 30 light-years from Earth.
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Russia is about to launch 4 US satellites
Moscow is preparing to launch US Globalstar information satellites from the space center in Kazakhstan later this month. Globalstar is a low orbital information satellit…
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The moon does not reflect light
Is Edward Munch mindless when he forgets the moon's reflection in many of his paintings? No, he followed the optical rules.
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China is about to launch a moon probe
According to Xinhua, China will almost certainly launch the lunar exploration ship in the second half of this year, starting its three-phase Lunar exploration program.
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Simulate the mission to the Moon under the ocean
Under the Atlantic Ocean, about 20 meters deep, surrounded by giant sharks and turtles off the coast of Florida, NASA space astronauts are preparing for future missions…
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Mars: adding new evidence for the existence of water
On May 21, the US Space Research Agency (NASA) announced it had discovered the existence of a large amount of silicon concentration, new evidence that in the past the su…
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China will launch the Mars probe into 2009
In October 2009, China will depart the first Mars probe as part of a joint project with Russia, sources from the Shanghai Space Agency, the main manufacturer of the prob…