Space OR Planetary Science - Google News for Sunday 17 August 2014

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For the First Time, A Rover Has Been Controlled from Space - Design & Trend

Posted: 17 Aug 2014 02:46 PM PDT
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t...from-space.htm


Design & Trend
For the First Time, A Rover Has Been Controlled from Space
Design & Trend
(Photo : European Space Research and Technology) Last week, an astronaut
aboard the International Space Station (ISS) drove a car-sized rover – on
Earth. The event was a demonstration of the European Space Agencys (ESA)
capability with remote ...

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Sunday Science: Space oddities, venom treatments & the feline genome - WCAX

Posted: 17 Aug 2014 06:38 AM PDT
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t...-feline-genome


Sunday Science: Space oddities, venom treatments & the feline genome
WCAX
The specialized scope allowed researchers to see a corona, a source of
x-rays, move closer to a black hole. Then, the extreme gravity of the black
hole pulled the x-ray light in, blurring it. Its the first time this
phenomenon has been seen so clearly ...