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Mars500 European Crew Selected And Ready To GoParis, France (ESA) May 11, 2010 The simulated flight to Mars is almost ready to depart! Selection of the full crew is still under way, but the Europeans have now been chosen: Romain Charles and Diego Urbina. Two Europeans, three Russians and one Chinese will close the hatch of the Mars500 isolation modules in early June and start their record-breaking mission. The full crew will be announced later in May, but the European members have already been selected in order to allow them to visit family and friends before they are ... read more |
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St. Petersburg, Russia (RIA Novosti) Apr 29, 2010Warming in the Arctic is likely to turn into cold and further records of the minimum amount of drift ice in the area will not be set, the head of a Russian Arctic expedition said on Tuesday. "I think the repetition of this event is next to impossible...There are hints that the trend has changed its direction," Vladimir Sokolov said, referring to the recent forecast of global Arctic warming ... more  
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Apr 30, 2010The famous Russian four-mast sailing ship Kruzenshtern will be back to its registration port, Kaliningrad, in early May after a six-month voyage as part of the Transatlantic Expedition. Vladimir Volkogon, the rector of the Baltic State Fishing Fleet Academy, which operates the barque, expounds on the expedition results and shares experience of maintaining a unique ship in good shape and te ... more  
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 30, 2010Russia is planning to develop a unique satellite system to monitor climatic changes and survey energy resources in the Arctic region, Russia's top space official said on Thursday. The Arctica satellite grouping will monitor the weather and environment of the North Pole, pinpoint hydrocarbon deposits on the Arctic shelf, provide telecommunications over the hard-to-access areas and ensure sa ... more |
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LRO Team Helps Track Laser Signals To Russian Rover MirrorGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 27, 2010 Using information provided by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) instrument teams, researchers at the University of California San Diego have successfully pinpointed the location of a long lost light reflector left on the lunar surface by bouncing laser signals from Earth to the Russian Lunokhod 1 retroreflector. The initial imaging of the two Russian rovers, Lunokhod 1 and 2 were made earlier this year by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) team, led by Mark Robinson from Arizon ... read more |
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