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A tribute to Cassini: 10 years spent revealing the secrets of Saturn and its moons

2014-07-03 21:51:59| Extremetech

NASA's Cassini probe has spent a full decade investigating Saturn and its moons. As the satellite gears up for its Grand Finale, it's time to look back at a decade of incredible achievement.

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The Moons real age is finally revealed, but the mystery of Earths tardy development lives on

2014-04-03 17:15:30| Extremetech

A new study has determined with 99.9% accuracy that the Moon was formed 95 million years after the birth of the Solar System. This pegs the Moon as being a lot younger than we previously thought -- and, perhaps more importantly, that our fair Earth's development was rather tardy, taking took a lot longer to form than we previously thought.

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Terahertz Sensor Aiming For Jupiter's Moons

2013-10-11 03:58:54| rfglobalnet News Articles

A high performance terahertz receiver aiming for space missions such as ESA’s “Jupiter icy moons explorer” has been developed in a joint European effort, led by Chalmers University of Technology.

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ESA funding a space penetrator, a science missile to bombard planets and moons

2013-07-15 20:15:31| Extremetech

We can land men on the Moon, land rovers on Mars, and send probes off to the farthest reaches of the Solar System. Unfortunately, everything is very expensive, and we generally can't land multiple robots on distant celestial bodies, much less a single one. However, with the UK's space penetrator, we could inexpensively bombard a planet with sensors and instruments.

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