The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter has recently snapped a new series of photos of the planet's surface, revealing scarred terrain stretching for large distances, as well as several impact craters, most likely caused by asteroids that struck the planet in the past. An area roughly the size of M... |
7 November 2009
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A new survey of a 64-kilometer (40-mile) stretch of the Beaufort Sea, in Alaska, shows that soil erosion has nearly doubled in speed and intensity over the past five years, between 2002 and 2007. This discovery has numerous important implications, including the destruction of the natural habitat of the animals and th... |
19 February 2009
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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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A water jet cutter is a tool able to slice into various solid materials with the help of a high speed jet containing a mixture of water and an abrasive material. Basically, water jet cutters rely on the same process that shaped most of the surface of the planet over the course of the past several billion years, water... |
31 July 2008
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Unlike most of the individual celestial bodies in the universe, which tend to take the shapes of spheres (the geometrical object with minimum surface area in relation to volume), asteroids come practically in all the possible shapes and sizes, although why this happens remained largely unknown until now. By studying ... |
3 July 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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Jason Buelterman, Tybee Insland's Mayor, posted a clip on the famous online video sharing service YouTube in a desperate attempt to show the local beach erosion and get some help from the authorities. It seems that the mayor aimed to attract Georgia's Congressional Delegation because they represent the only... |
29 May 2007
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