News tagged with crater
Asteroid Vesta floats in space in high resolution 3-D
The giant Asteroid Vesta literally floats in space in a new high resolution 3-D image of the battered bodies Eastern Hemisphere taken by NASA’s Dawn Asteroid Orbiter.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 06, 2012 |
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Mars Express reveals wind-blown deposits on Mars
(PhysOrg.com) -- New images from ESA’s Mars Express show the Syrtis Major region on Mars. Once thought to be a sea of water, the region is now known to be a volcanic province dating back billions of years.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 06, 2012 |
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Crater with dark and bright ejecta
(PhysOrg.com) -- This Dawn FC (framing camera) image is centered on a small, young, fresh crater with bright and dark ejecta rays extending from it. This image is a brightness image, which is taken directly ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 27, 2012 |
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LRO lets you stand on the rim of Aristarchus crater
Have you ever you looked up at the bright, cavernous Aristarchus Crater on the Moon through a telescope or binoculars and wondered what it would be like to stand on the rim and peer inside? Spectacular new ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 30, 2011 |
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NASA rover prepares for 5th winter on Mars
NASA's lone surviving Mars rover has been busy exploring its surroundings since it rolled up to its latest crater destination four months ago. Now the solar-powered, six-wheel Opportunity is in search of ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 07, 2011 |
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The landing-site specialist
(PhysOrg.com) -- Gale crater has been sitting just below the equator of Mars, minding its own business, for at least three and half billion years. But in August 2012, a capsule is going to come screaming out ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 19, 2011 |
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Video documents three-year trek on Mars by NASA rover
(PhysOrg.com) -- While NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity was traveling from Victoria crater to Endeavour crater, between September 2008 and August 2011, the rover team took an end-of-drive image on ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 11, 2011 |
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Mars Express observes clusters of recent craters in Ares Vallis
(PhysOrg.com) -- Newly released images taken by ESA’s Mars Express show an unusual accumulation of young craters in the large outflow channel called Ares Vallis. Older craters have been reduced to ghostly ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 07, 2011 |
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New hypothesis on crater debris
A team of researchers partnered with the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) has developed a new hypothesis for the origin of crater ejecta—debris that is launched out of a crater during meteorite impacts.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 27, 2011 |
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Mars rover inspects next rock at Endeavour
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is using instruments on its robotic arm to inspect targets on a rock called "Chester Lake."
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 15, 2011 |
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Rare martian lake delta spotted by Mars Express
(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA’s Mars Express has spotted a rare case of a crater once filled by a lake, revealed by the presence of a delta. The delta is an ancient fan-shaped deposit of dark sediments, laid down ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 02, 2011 |
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Daybreak at Gale crater
This computer-generated images depicts part of Mars at the boundary between darkness and daylight, with an area including Gale Crater, beginning to catch morning light.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 25, 2011 |
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Viking 1 examines Mars' Ophir Chasma
During its examination of Mars, the Viking 1 spacecraft returned images of Valles Marineris, a huge canyon system 5,000 km, or about 3,106 miles, long, whose connected chasma or valleys may have formed from ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 23, 2011 |
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New Mars rover snapshots capture Endeavour crater vistas
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has captured new images of intriguing Martian terrain from a small crater near the rim of the large Endeavour crater. The rover arrived at the 13-mile-diameter ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 22, 2011 |
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Rover arrives at new site on martian surface
(PhysOrg.com) -- After a journey of almost three years, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reached the Red Planet's Endeavour crater to study rocks never seen before.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 10, 2011 |
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