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NASA Prepares Europa Clipper Launch to Study an Ocean Moon’s Habitability

New York Times 14 Oct 2024
The spacecraft will lift off Monday on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on a nearly six-year journey to Jupiter ... .
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NASA Prepares Europa Clipper Launch to a Jupiter Moon

New York Times 14 Oct 2024
The spacecraft will lift off Monday on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on a nearly six-year journey to Jupiter ... .
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Why NASA is sending the Europa Clipper to search for aliens near Jupiter

Space 14 Oct 2024
In the coming weeks, NASA's Europa Clipper will take off on a long journey to Jupiter's moon Europa. The icy moon could potentially host alien life — and there's only one way to find out ....
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Europa: When to See NASA And SpaceX Blast-Off To Ocean Moon On Monday

Forbes 13 Oct 2024
Europa Clipper will launch on Thursday, Oct. 10, atop a SpaceX rocket to begin a 1.8-billion-mile journey to the Jovian System to study Jupiter’s icy moon Europa ... .
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NASA’s Europa Clipper is launching Ada Limón’s poem on a 2-billion-mile journey

Press Telegram 11 Oct 2024
As the current United States Poet Laureate, Ada Limón can command a large audience. But her work is about to reach almost beyond imagination ... The massive effort by a host of agencies is being headed up by Caltech and JPL in Pasadena. SEE ALSO ... U.S ... Q ... Q ... Q.
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Hints of volcanic moon around alien planet may be 1st-of-its-kind discovery (video)

Space 11 Oct 2024
A sodium cloud detected in the vicinity of an exoplanet named WASP-49 b hints at the presence of a natural satellite, also known as an exomoon ....
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Former Caltech professor awarded Nobel Prize in physics

LA Daily News 08 Oct 2024
Caltech emeritus professor John Hopfield has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics ... The awards were announced Tuesday, Oct. 8 ... Hopfield worked as a Caltech professor from 1980 until 1997. Related Articles. News . ... News . ... News . ... News . ... News . ... .
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NASA Spacecraft Captures Dramatic ‘Zen Gardens’ On Mars

Forbes 08 Oct 2024
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter caught sight of an unusual boulder-strewn landscape with strange patterns not seen elsewhere on the red planet ... .
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Can Rocket Lab come to NASA's rescue with new Mars sample-return plan?

Space 08 Oct 2024
In response to NASA's plea for help bringing the cost and complexity of its Mars sample-return program, Rocket Lab has won a contract to study a potential solution ....
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Curiosity Mars rover's wheels are more battered than ever — but they still work

Space 03 Oct 2024
The latest photo of Curiosity's wheels shows new — but not debilitating — damage ....
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Did a NASA telescope detect cosmic 'hot dogs' or Dyson spheres?

Space 02 Oct 2024
The potential detection of "Dyson spheres" indicating advanced alien civilizations may actually be supermassive black hole powerful galaxies obscured by dusty shrouds called "hot DOGs." ....
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NASA shuts off Voyager 2 science instrument as power dwindles

Space 02 Oct 2024
NASA has turned off one of Voyager 2's science instruments as power conservation becomes crucial for the interstellar exploring spacecraft located 12.8 billion miles from home ....
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James Webb Space Telescope deciphers the origins of Pluto's icy moon Charon

Space 01 Oct 2024
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide at the surface of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, potentially shedding light on its origins ....
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Caltech’s laser headset becomes 1st-ever device to predict stroke noninvasively

Interesting Engineering 30 Sep 2024
A team of engineers and scientists from Caltech and the Keck School of Medicine at USC has created a noninvasive, headset-based device that can assess a patient’s stroke risk by monitoring blood flow and volume changes during a breath-holding test.

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File - In this photo released by the Taiwan Coast Guard, a Chinese navy vessel identified as the Chinese Missile Frigate FFG 548 is seen near the Pengjia Islet north of Taiwan on Thursday, May 23, 2024. Taiwan scrambled jets and put missile, naval and land units on alert Thursday over Chinese military exercises being conducted around the self-governing island democracy where a new president took office this week.
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