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Ocean Planets on the Brink of Detection
Feb 02, 2007 |
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Imagine a world with no land at all, merely the impenetrable depths of a seething ocean. Models of planet formation predict the existence of such worlds, even though our own solar system has none. Indeed, ...
Cassini finds evidence for hydrocarbon lakes on Titan
Jul 25, 2006 |
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The Cassini spacecraft, using its radar system, has discovered very strong evidence for hydrocarbon lakes on Titan. Dark patches, which resemble terrestrial lakes, seem to be sprinkled all over the high latitudes ...
The Case for Habitable Exoplanet Moons
Apr 27, 2006 |
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As scientists refine their methods, exoplanets are becoming easier and easier to detect. The current count is 163 planets orbiting 97 main-sequence stars, of which only one is even remotely Earth-like. All ...
Ingredients for DNA and Protein Found Around Star
Dec 21, 2005 |
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered some of life's most basic ingredients in the dust swirling around a young star. The ingredients - gaseous precursors to DNA and protein - were detected in the star's ...
Venus Express launched, on the way to planet's hidden mysteries
Nov 09, 2005 |
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The European spacecraft Venus Express was successfully launched at 04:33 CET by a Soyuz-Fregat rocket, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazahkstan. It has been successfully placed into a trajectory that will ...
Scientists Propose Paradigm Shift In Robotic Space Exploration
Oct 18, 2005 |
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Just ask any geologist. If you're studying the history of a planet and the life forms that may have lived on it, the really good places to look are rugged terrains like canyons and other areas where water, ...
Titan's lakes could be explored by boat
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If a suggestion to be made to NASA comes to fruition, vast lakes thought to be filled with liquid hydrocarbons near the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan, may one day be explored by boat.
Scientists explain puzzling lake asymmetry on Titan
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 29, 2009 |
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Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) suggest that the eccentricity of Saturn's orbit around the sun may be responsible for the unusually uneven distribution of methane and ethane ...
Robot Armada Might Scale New Worlds
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An armada of robots may one day fly above the mountain tops of Saturn's moon Titan, cross its vast dunes and sail in its liquid lakes.
Alfalfa sprouts hold the line on meandering streams (w/ Video)
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Sinuous, meandering streams produce diverse and wildlife-rich habitats and are the aim of many river restoration efforts, but until now, the bank, water flow and sediment conditions required ...
Scientists discover storms in the tropics of Titan
Aug 12, 2009 |
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For all its similarities to Earth -- clouds that pour rain (albeit liquid methane not liquid water) onto the surface producing lakes and rivers, vast dune fields in desert-like regions, plus a smoggy orange ...
California's Channel Islands hold evidence of Clovis-age comets
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 20, 2009 |
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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.
Subterranean oceans on Saturn's moon Titan
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may have a subterranean ocean of hydrocarbons and some topsy-turvy topography in which the summits of its mountains lie lower than its average surface elevation, ...
HP exploring using Android software in computers
Mar 31, 2009 |
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Leading US computer maker Hewlett-Packard said Tuesday it is studying the possibility of building machines based on Google-backed Android operating systems.
Long-necked dinos didn't reach for the skies
Mar 31, 2009 |
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A fondly-held belief about long-necked sauropods, the giant four-footed dinosaurs beloved of monster movies and children, is most probably untrue, a dino expert said on Wednesday.
