http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (PhysOrg.com) -- This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a sample of the variety and complexity of processes that may occur on the walls of Martian craters, well after the impact crater formed. http://www.physorg.com/news178453746.html Space & Earth Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:29:56 EST news178453746 (PhysOrg.com) -- The argument that the moon is a dry, desolate place no longer holds water. Secrets the moon has been holding, for perhaps billions of years, are now being revealed to the delight of scientists and space enthusiasts alike. http://www.physorg.com/news177337293.html Space & Earth Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:22:09 EST news177337293 (PhysOrg.com) -- Impact craters on Mars are kind of neat. Many of them look very different than impact craters seen on Earth's moon or Mercury. Fresh lunar and Mercurian craters have ejecta blankets that look a bit rough near the crater rims; around larger craters, long rays or chains of secondary craters radiate away from the crater rims. Some Martian craters are similar to these craters, but Mars also has a high proportion of craters with forms not found on the moon or Mercury: rampart craters. http://www.physorg.com/news177321519.html Space & Earth Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:59:51 EST news177321519 (PhysOrg.com) -- Mars Express flew over the boundary between Kasei Valles and Sacra Fossae and imaged the region, acquiring spectacular views of the chaotic terrain in the area. http://www.physorg.com/news176721098.html Space & Earth Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:19:52 EST news176721098 The MESSENGER spacecraft's third flyby of the planet Mercury has given scientists, for the first time, an almost complete view of the planet's surface and revealed some dramatic changes in Mercury's comet-like tail. http://www.physorg.com/news176575356.html Space & Earth Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:43:05 EST news176575356 (PhysOrg.com) -- Every month, Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay fires her 20-foot gun in the basement of Harvard's Hoffman Lab, sending shivers through the concrete and steel structure that can be picked up by seismometers upstairs. http://www.physorg.com/news176050830.html Space & Earth Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:01:07 EST news176050830 (PhysOrg.com) -- This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows channels to the southeast of Hale crater on southern Mars. Taken by the orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, this view covers an area about 3 kilometers (2 miles) wide. http://www.physorg.com/news175971479.html Space & Earth Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:10:01 EST news175971479 (AP) -- Scientists investigating a large crater initially believed to have been caused by a meteorite said a closer analysis Monday revealed it was a hoax. http://www.physorg.com/news175758595.html Space & Earth Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:56:03 EST news175758595 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA`s Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) was a smashing success, returning tantalizing data about the Centaur impact before the spacecraft itself impacted the surface of the moon. http://www.physorg.com/news175083508.html Space & Earth Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:19:59 EST news175083508 A mysterious basin off the coast of India could be the largest, multi-ringed impact crater the world has ever seen. And if a new study is right, it may have been responsible for killing the dinosaurs off 65 million years ago. http://www.physorg.com/news174827113.html Space & Earth Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:06:03 EST news174827113 (AP) -- NASA's great lunar fireworks finale fizzled. After gearing up for the space agency's much-hyped mission to hurl two spacecraft into the moon, the public turned away from the sky Friday anything but dazzled. Photos and video of the impact showed little more than a fuzzy white flash. http://www.physorg.com/news174364867.html Space & Earth Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:02:27 EST news174364867 NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, created twin impacts on the moon's surface early Friday in a search for water ice. Scientists will analyze data from the spacecraft's instruments to assess whether water ice is present. http://www.physorg.com/news174284169.html Space & Earth Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:37:05 EST news174284169 (PhysOrg.com) -- At 7:30 a.m. EDT on October 9, a two-ton rocket body will slam into a crater near the moon's south pole. By studying the resulting plume of gas and dust, scientists hope this grand experiment will confirm the presence of ice in permanently shadowed craters at the lunar poles. http://www.physorg.com/news174237313.html Space & Earth Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:15:57 EST news174237313 (AP) -- NASA will throw a one-two punch at the big old moon Friday and the whole world will have ringside seats for the lunar dust-up. http://www.physorg.com/news174153751.html Space & Earth Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:20:19 EST news174153751 Just imagine. A spaceship plunges out of the night sky, hits the ground and explodes. A plume of debris billows back into the heavens, leading your eye to a second ship in hot pursuit. Four minutes later, that one hits the ground, too. It's raining spaceships! http://www.physorg.com/news173983755.html Space & Earth Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:20:03 EST news173983755 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission (LCROSS) based on new analysis of available lunar data, has shifted the target crater from Cabeus A to Cabeus (proper). http://www.physorg.com/news173458737.html Space & Earth Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:10:02 EST news173458737 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's first-ever moon temperature-mapping effort has returned its first data. http://www.physorg.com/news172424963.html Space & Earth Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:51:32 EST news172424963 Networks of giant polygonal troughs etched across crater basins on Mars have been identified as desiccation cracks caused by evaporating lakes, providing further evidence of a warmer, wetter martian past.  The findings were presented today at the European Planetary Science Congress by PhD student Mr M Ramy El Maarry of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research. http://www.physorg.com/news172305651.html Space & Earth Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:41:30 EST news172305651 Crater patterns on Vesta and Ceres could help pinpoint when Jupiter began to form during the evolution of the early solar system. http://www.physorg.com/news172242235.html Space & Earth Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:20:01 EST news172242235 (PhysOrg.com) -- A team of geologists led by Cindy Ebinger of the University of Rochester have deployed 16 seismic sensors on one of the Galapagos Islands to study the processes of ocean island formation -- particularly those that occur right above mantle "hotspots." http://www.physorg.com/news171734872.html Space & Earth Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:30:01 EST news171734872 Argentina can lay claim to the world's largest crater field, a volcanic area in Patagonia known as the "Devil's Slope," according to a study released Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news171643252.html Space & Earth Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:30:03 EST news171643252 NASA has identified the spot where it will search for water on the moon. http://www.physorg.com/news171642986.html Space & Earth Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:37:10 EST news171642986 (PhysOrg.com) -- A BBC expedition exploring inside the crater of an extinct volcano in Papua New Guinea (PNG) has discovered a lost world of dozens of weird new species and rare animals, including new frogs, a giant rat, many new insects and spiders, giant caterpillars, and a new bat species. http://www.physorg.com/news171612975.html Biology Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:20:01 EST news171612975 Four months after the success of Apollo 11, NASA launched Apollo 12 in November 1969. Almost exactly 40 years later, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has seen the landing site. http://www.physorg.com/news171215857.html Space & Earth Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:58:05 EST news171215857 (PhysOrg.com) -- The amount of electricity generated by the solar panels on Spirit has been declining for the past several Martian days, or sols, as a regional dust storm moved southward and blocked some of the sunshine at Spirit's location. The team operating the rover has responsively trimmed Spirit's daily activities and is keeping an eye on weather reports from observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. http://www.physorg.com/news170526074.html Space & Earth Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:10:01 EST news170526074 (PhysOrg.com) -- This image of Victoria Crater in the Meridiani Planum region of Mars was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter at more of a sideways angle than earlier orbital images of this crater. http://www.physorg.com/news169306067.html Space & Earth Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:50:01 EST news169306067 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have placed high-tech "spiders" inside and around the mouth of Mount St. Helens, one of the most active volcanoes in the United States. Networks such as these could one day be used to respond rapidly to an impending eruption. http://www.physorg.com/news168874991.html Space & Earth Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:43:56 EST news168874991 A 17-member team has found what may be the smoking gun of a much-debated proposal that a cosmic impact about 12,900 years ago ripped through North America and drove multiple species into extinction. http://www.physorg.com/news167329938.html Space & Earth Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:20:01 EST news167329938 On June 29th, neighbors of Paul Mortfield in Ontario, Canada, heard "cheers of excitement" coming from the astronomer's house. What caused the commotion? http://www.physorg.com/news166451645.html Space & Earth Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:35:50 EST news166451645 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's return to the moon will get a boost in June with the launch of two satellites that will return a wealth of data about Earth's nearest neighbor. On Thursday, the agency outlined the upcoming missions of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS. The spacecraft will launch together June 17 aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. http://www.physorg.com/news162219006.html Space & Earth Fri, 22 May 2009 13:51:45 EST news162219006