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- A Powerful New Astronomy Instrument Gets Ready for Hawaii
It's time to go to Hawaiiat least, if you're MOSFIRE, a new near-infrared spectrometer that's now on its way to the W. M. Keck Observatory, atop Mauna Kea. But the powerful new instrument, six feet in diameter, about a dozen feet in length, and weighing in at 4,500 pounds10,000 if you include the mount and packing crateisn't going there to surf. MOSFIRE will be the newest weapon in the Keck's ...
camera infrared multi near object spectrometer 08 Feb 2012 - Old Hubble data reveal hidden alien planets
When a team of researchers sifted through old data from the Hubble Space Telescope and discovered two hidden alien planets that had gone unnoticed for 13 years, they inadvertently found a new way to seek out alien worlds.
camera infrared multi near object spectrometer 08 Feb 2012 - Hidden Alien Planets Revealed in Old Hubble Telescope Data
AUSTIN, Texas ? When a team of researchers sifted through old data from the Hubble Space Telescope and discovered two hidden alien planets that had gone unnoticed for 13 years, they inadvertently found a new way to seek out alien worlds.
camera infrared multi near object spectrometer 08 Feb 2012 - full story .
2116 GMT (4:16 p.m. EST) Science leader Steve Squyres says Opportunity has scored a 300-million-mile hole in one! As suspected overnight when the first images arrived on Earth, the rover has landed inside "a 20-meter diameter" crater, Squyres reports.
camera infrared multi near object spectrometer 08 Feb 2012
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