The team switched from Mars Curiosity time on earth

After three months on "Martian time," a team of scientists, which supervise NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, went to work on a standard work schedule, "Earth time."

Martian day, called "Salt", lasts for 40 minutes longer than the earth, so the beginning of the shift to the members of the scientific team was shifted a few hours each week in advance. Rover team includes more than 200 engineers from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA and about 400 researchers, mainly from other academic institutions.

Unusual lunar crater will help to understand the evolution of craters on Earth

Researchers studying the evolution of impact craters on Earth and other rocky bodies discovered an interesting object for research on the moon.

Scientists engaged in the crater of lunar   who is in the region known as the lunar Sea of Tranquility. The crater is only 2.2 kilometers in diameter, but it is very young - formed only 10 million years ago - and well-preserved.

Supplies to Space Station

A Russian Progress transport ship was on 31 October sent up to the International Space Station with fresh supplies.

Last Wednesday, the 31st October, was a Progress spacecraft re-launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.

Less than six hours after the start arrived Progress 49 to the ISS. The number 49 refers to the 49th once a Progress vehicle flying goods to the orbiting outpost in space.