Astronomers figured out that Mars is an ever-changing world some time ago, but each time they see something appear or disappear from its surface, they are equally baffled and thrilled. Such was the case when they recently browsed a series of images that covered the same location, but two years apart.
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20 April 2012
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The (full) image above shows patches of Martian ices, produced during the winter. Experts managing the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) experiment aboard the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) wanted to image them recently, but got a surprise instead.
The extremely accurate instrument was bloc... |
23 March 2012
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The new flyby that the EPOXI spacecraft conducted around comet Hartley 2 demonstrated to researchers that this particular space body is fueled by dry ice, a finding that surprised experts. Astronomers say that many other comets may utilize the same fuel for their jets. This is precisely the type of discovery that exp... |
11 November 2010
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In a series of new images captured by a NASA orbiter around Mars, the Red Planet reveals a number of peculiar structures on its surface, very close to the north pole. According to the experts who got a chance to look at the images, these formations can easily be identified as trees by laypersons, but they argue that ... |
14 January 2010
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New images provided by the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) show peculiar, spider-shaped formations on the ground, near the planet's south pole, experts have recently announced. The data was collected using the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard the space probe, which is capa... |
1 October 2009
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Dry ice is basically frozen carbon dioxide. It might not sound like much but dry ice bears some unique properties that make it ideal for certain cooling applications. First of all, as its name says, it's dry, meaning that unlike other ices, such as frozen water, it does not go through a liquid state when heated.... |
9 May 2008
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If the Rain Dancing ceremony suddenly doesn't work for you anymore, you might consider using a cloud seeding technique to bring back the rain. Cloud seeding represents a form of weather modification, in the attempt to change the amount or type of precipitation that falls from the clouds, by spreading substances ... |
15 November 2007
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