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Officials at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announce that they have given a crater on the surface of Mars the informal name Freedom 7, after the spacecraft that astronaut Alan Shepard piloted during the United States' first spaceflight ever. The event took place on May 5, 1961, and so the JPL team is r... |
5 May 2011
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Over the years, there have been many explanations for Mount Etna and the surrounding volcanics, but the dynamic model developed by renowned geophysicist Dr Wouter Schellart, at Monash University, is the first to explain the timing, origin and dynamics of the activity.Mount Etna is one of the most fascinating volcanoe... |
7 October 2010
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Scientists operating the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft were recently surprised when it sent a new series of photos back to Earth. One of them showed a massive impact crater on the Red Planet that was apparently caused following a devastating cosmic collision, most likely with an asteroid. The thin... |
5 August 2010
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While conducting a scientific study South of the Azores Islands, scientists at the EMEPC (Task Group for the Extension of the Portuguese Continental Shelf) discovered an underwater structure at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean that looked very much like an impact crater. The Fried Egg, as the formation was called, mi... |
18 December 2009
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The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is one of the two Moon-bound spacecraft that NASA launched this June, aboard an Atlas V delivery system. While the LCROSS impactor already finished its mission, after slamming a spent rocket stage, and then itself, into the lunar south pole, the LRO is still returning valuable d... |
16 December 2009
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The American space agency really outdid itself with the latest development in rover technology. Placed alongside Spirit or Opportunity, Axel, the newest member of the family, looks nothing like its predecessors. For one, it's very, very small, and it is not designed to walk on its own. Rather, it resembles a lar... |
14 February 2009
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Most certainly, when the topic of destroying potentially hazardous asteroids that could reach a collision course with the Earth comes into question, almost everybody thinks of the 1998 movie "Armageddon," in which Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck saved the planet from one. Or at least Phil Plait's recent book, "Deat... |
4 December 2008
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It was about the year 900 AD when a large, tree log-sized meteor smashed on the surface of the Earth in a western region of Canada, leaving a large scar as an amphitheater-shaped crater. It still lies there today, filled with small meteorite pieces, under a thick blanket of trees, as a research indicates. The meteori... |
29 November 2008
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The number of scientific devices studying the red planet is continuously on the rise. This adds to the constant discovery of unusual features sported by Mars, eventually providing more insight on its formation, evolution and structure. More recent images captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)'s High R... |
26 November 2008
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As some of you may know, the idea of ancient asteroids smashing off on the Martian surface and shutting down most of the planet's magnetic field is not new, and we've already written about it in a previous article. But a recent study provides more insight on how this may have happened, aided by new data obt... |
21 November 2008
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A group of scientists from the Harvard University led by Katherine Cagen claims that a massive tsunami wave splashed ashore some 2,300 years ago, mightily sweeping the coastal regions of New York deeply inland. Even more, the researchers indicate it is most likely that the catastrophe was caused by an ancient asteroi... |
21 November 2008
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Mars' hemispheres are very different in weather and even in season, given the positioning of the planet in relation to the Sun. Since its southern part is now facing the Sun, it is spring time for half of Mars, while the other half gets ready for the closing winter. This also has a big impact on science, because... |
11 November 2008
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Images recently sent from the Japanese Moon orbiter KAGUYA (Japanese for “SELENE”) show that the volcanic activity on the far side of Earth's natural satellite may have ended later than scientists previously thought. Latest estimations appreciate that the last such activity occurred in the region ab... |
7 November 2008
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Junichi Haruyama and his team from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency have analyzed the data sent back by the KAGUYA (“SELENE”) explorer satellite currently orbiting the Moon. The photos of a lunar crater found on the side permanently shrouded in darkness have shed some light – unfortunately, o... |
27 October 2008
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About a billion years ago, there was a pair of small moons revolving each other in close orbit with Mars. One of them, Phobos, is still performing its regular cyclic patrols around the red planet, but the other, as experts believe, has broken into pieces, entered the atmosphere, and eventually smashed on Mars' ... |
27 October 2008
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured amazing new images that show an odd feature on the northern pole of the planet. It seems to be an impact crater, which was revealed as the terrain in the region slowly eroded.The characteristics of the red planet all indicate evidence of a violent past, like the fa... |
17 October 2008
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Yesterday, the MESSENGER spacecraft performed its second Mercury pass-by, and began transmitting data back to Earth. The images showed that our solar system's first member is packed with relatively young, bright craters and a wide rays pattern, associating the planet' s weather phenomenons with similar ones... |
8 October 2008
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It is clear that once there was plenty of water on Mars. The recent findings of NASA's Phoenix Lander indicated that currently, the red planet is pretty much covered by an underground layer of water ice (non-carbonic). However, it remains to be seen exactly to what extent the Martian ice spreads. But what form d... |
27 September 2008
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Earth, unlike the other rocky planets in the solar system, is extremely geologically active, constantly shifting and remodeling the surface through plate tectonics shifts, volcanic eruptions and erosion, and mountains formation. This basically means that any evidence of old meteorite and asteroid impacts are mostly h... |
14 April 2008
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The surface of the Moon is covered with thousands of craters, some of which deeper than most of the mountains here on Earth and large enough to accommodate a few Grand Canyons. Nonetheless, NASA wants to send a manned mission back to the Moon by the end of 2020, but they hope the next trip to the Moon wouldn't b... |
28 March 2008
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According to researchers from the Oxford and Aberdeen universities, about 1.2 billion years ago, a relatively large object entered Earth's atmosphere and fell towards the regions of north-west Scotland, to create the biggest meteorite impact on the territories of the United Kingdom. The exact location of the cra... |
26 March 2008
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Yesterday, Dr. Arthur Hickman, a government geologist, announced the discovery of a rare meteorite crater somewhere near Australia, in Pilbara. According to various sources, the scientist managed to discover the crater using Google Earth, the software application provided by Google that allows you to view satellite m... |
26 March 2008
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The one who says that Google Earth is not useful is surely wrong. And today's piece of news comes to support this statement. Dr. Arthur Hickman, a government geologist, has spotted an impressive meteorite crater while using Google Earth and, as he sustains, he wasn't looking for such a thing on the download... |
25 March 2008
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It might not look the ideal place to be in, but NASA and the ESA are currently exploring the possibility to put a permanent lunar base in the south polar regions of the Moon. Due to the unique axis tilt in relation to the position of the Sun, the south pole of the Moon is mostly kept in darkness throughout the year, ... |
12 March 2008
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You might not know this, but in September 2007 a meteorite entered the Earth's atmosphere and eventually reached the ground in a countryside area in Peru, where it formed a small crater, right in front of the eyes of the people living nearby. And this occurred although most of the space rocks hitting our planet ... |
12 March 2008
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Data collected during the fly-by around Mercury by NASA's MESSENGER orbiter is still pouring in, revealing new and surprising facts about probably the least studied planet in the solar system. Upon reviewing some of the photographs taken on January 14, NASA astrophysicists discovered a series of craters along th... |
11 March 2008
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It's no secret now, Mars is thought to have been much hotter in its past, basically meaning that it could also have had liquid water on its surface at some point in time. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and ESA's Mars Express routinely return evidence of what seems to be gullies or lake beds possibl... |
7 March 2008
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Back on 13 April 2007, during its 4199 orbit around the Red Planet, ESA's Mars Express took an image of the Terby crater, with the help of its High Resolution Stereo Camera. It seems to be presenting high scientific interest, mainly because it could hold valuable information about the role of liquid water in the... |
1 February 2008
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After waiting for more that three decades for a spacecraft to return to Mercury and photograph the other half of the planet's surface, NASA finally has access to some of the most spectacular images of the solar system, amongst which a giant crater on the surface that presents more than 50 cracks radiating away f... |
31 January 2008
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All of a sudden, it started raining with asteroids! No wonder, astronomers estimate that there are about 7,000 such rocks, discovered and undiscovered, orbiting around the Sun and periodically coming through the vicinity of the Earth. Because they are so small in size, many less than 150 meters in diameter, astronome... |
25 January 2008
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At last, we can see the images we've all been waiting for more than three decades, since the first mission to the small planet in the solar system. The first fly-by of the spacecraft MESSENGER around Mercury was a complete success revealing images of a surface battered by multiple collisions, relatively similar ... |
17 January 2008
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If an asteroid hits the Red Planet, it could be the second time in history when humanity witnesses a collision between a celestial body and a planet in the solar system, other than the Earth, since the event in 2004 when the broken comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 intersected the orbit of Jupiter, creating giant fireballs in i... |
21 December 2007
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The planets and the moons in the solar system often get pounded by differently sized objects, creating large cracks and craters on their surface. These energetic impacts are often due to the moon's regular motion and spinning. To better understand the effect that these events have on the motion of a planet or mo... |
26 November 2007
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No one is sure yet if it really was a meteorite, but hundreds of Peruvians have required treatment after Saturday night, an object from space crashed on Earth, in a remote area, leaving a deep crater near the town of Carancas (Andes), in the Puno area (south Peru, near the Bolivian border), some 1,300km (800 mi) sout... |
19 September 2007
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A breakup in the asteroid belt of the Sun System has now been connected by an American-Czech team from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and Charles University in Prague to the catastrophic event that destroyed the dinosaurs and many contemporaneous species 65 million years ago, after combining observations with va... |
6 September 2007
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From time to time, scientists get a little bit of help from Lady Luck and when this happens, they discover something amazing. This is exactly what happened after a forest fire more than 450 miles away at Sudbury, Ontario.A group of geologists were forced to find alternative routes for their field trip, since the fir... |
16 July 2007
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A gigantic storm, covering a large portion of the Martian surface has affected the two Mars Exploration Rovers, causing them to lose power. NASA is worried that things could get worse. These storms appear when the planet is closest to the Sun, which increases the overall temperature and produces huge winds that lift... |
5 July 2007
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Hyperion, a satellite of Saturn, is one of the strangest moons in our solar system, whose behavior and composition has puzzled astronomers for many years. This moon really looks like a giant cosmic sponge, but there are many more weird properties that have just recently been explained.A highly irregular body in the ... |
5 July 2007
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NASA's Opportunity Rover is finally set to descend into the 230-foot-deep Victoria Crater on Mars to turn the page of the Red Planet called "a geologic history book" after spending the last couple of months making a clockwise trip around the crater's rim, heading for a breach called Duck Bay, said mission ... |
29 June 2007
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The biggest space impact suffered by Earth in modern times is the Tunguska event, when an impact put down more than 2,000 sq km of forest near the Tunguska River (Siberia) on 30 June 1908. It could have been a comet or asteroid blasting in the atmosphere with a power similar to 1,000 Hiroshima bombs explosions (20 mi... |
26 June 2007
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NASA's Opportunity Rover will soon descend into the 230-foot-deep Victoria Crater on Mars to turn the page of the Red Planet calls "a geologic history book," after spending the last couple of months making a clockwise trip around the crater's rim, heading for a breach called Duck Bay.The Opportunity missio... |
28 May 2007
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The first images of the far side of the Moon were taken by the Russian Luna 3 and Zond 3 spacecraft in October 1959 and July 1965, respectively. These were the first to present the Moon's face that we never see, because of the fact that it has a rotation time around its axis equal to the revolution tine around E... |
14 May 2007
11:06 GMT |
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Without a Bruce Willis to protect, California remained the victim of an Armageddon 35 million years ago. That's the time when a research team believes that a meteorite as big as three football fields hit the golden state. The impact could have made a giant 3.4 miles (5.5 km) wide craterlike formation buried 4,9... |
29 March 2007
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