Two months ago, On October the 5th, NASA's Cassini probe came as close as 25 km from the surface of Saturn's small moon, allowing it to capture a new set of images that sparked new interest in Earth's scientists. These photos indicated that the southern polar surface of the geologically active moon fea... |
16 December 2008
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We have recently written about an event that nearly extinguished all life on Earth some 250 million years ago. It had to do with the most massive superplume ever that originated in the near-core region of the Earth and slowly reached towards the surface during millions of years, culminating with three large volcanic ... |
15 December 2008
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When people hear about mass extinctions of the past, they immediately think dinosaurs and asteroids, but what they don't know is that the event that occurred about 65 million years ago (at the end of the Cretaceous Period), was not the first. In fact, before they even appeared, life came close to being obliterat... |
13 December 2008
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The Cassini spacecraft is scheduled tomorrow for a unique fly-by around Saturn's moon Enceladus, to probe in detail the nature of the water plume originating from geysers on the surface in regions around the south pole of the moon. During the fly-by, Cassini will reach an altitude of only 50 kilometers above the... |
11 March 2008
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