News tagged with crater

NASA on Thursday said it was on target for a June mission to scour the Moon's surface for landing sites and water

NASA eyes water in Moon mission

May 21, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (7) | 9

NASA on Thursday said it was on target for a June mission to scour the Moon's surface for landing sites and water that would allow humans to work and even live on Earth's nearest neighbor.

Rover Sees Variable Environmental History at Martian Crater

Opportunity Rover Sees Variable Environmental History at Martian Victoria Crater

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

May 21, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (12) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of NASA's two Mars rovers has recorded a compelling saga of environmental changes that occurred over billions of years at a Martian crater.

New Blow for Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Theory

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Apr 27, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (28) | 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- The enduringly popular theory that the Chicxulub crater holds the clue to the demise of the dinosaurs, along with some 65 percent of all species 65 million years ago, is challenged in a paper ...

One Mars Rover Sees a Distant Goal; The Other Takes a New Route

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Mar 18, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (7) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- On a plain that stretches for miles in every direction, the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has caught a first glimpse on the horizon of the uplifted rim of the big crater ...

LCROSS Mission To Seek Water Ice on Moon Heads to Florida for Launch

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Feb 17, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (4) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, is enroute from Northrop Grumman's facility in Redondo Beach, Calif., to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation ...

Evidence of ancient hot springs on Mars detailed

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Feb 12, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

New Rochelle, NY, February 12, 2009 -Data from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) suggest the discovery of ancient springs in the Vernal Crater, sites where life forms may have evolved on Mars, according to a report in ...

NASA Radar Provides First Look Inside Moon's Shadowed Craters

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jan 16, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (10) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a NASA radar flying aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists are getting their first look inside the moon's coldest, darkest craters.

Martian Polar Layer Erosion Looks Striking

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 16, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (13) | 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- An odd, solitary hill rising part-way down an eroding slope in Mars' north polar layered terrain may be the remnant of a buried impact crater, suggests a University of Arizona planetary scientist ...

Bigger Crater Farther South of 'Victoria' on Mars

Mars Rover Opportunity To Head Toward Bigger Crater

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Sep 22, 2008 | 5 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is setting its sights on a crater more than 20 times larger than its home for the past two years.

Mars Rover Opportunity Looks Back at Arena of Exploration

Mars Rover Opportunity Ascends to Level Ground

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Sep 01, 2008 | 4.9 / 5 (13) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has climbed out of the large crater that it had been examining from the inside since last September.

Antarctic research helps shed light on climate change on Mars

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Aug 28, 2008 | 4.8 / 5 (9) | 5

Researchers examining images of gullies on the flanks of craters on Mars say they formed as recently as a few hundred thousand years ago and in sites once occupied by glaciers. The features are eerily reminiscent of gullies ...

Mars Rover Opportunity Climbing out of Victoria Crater

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Aug 26, 2008 | 4.9 / 5 (14) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Exploration rover Opportunity is heading back out to the Red Planet's surrounding plains nearly a year after descending into a large Martian crater to examine exposed ancient rock ...

A Flash of Insight: LCROSS Mission Update

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Aug 11, 2008 | 4 / 5 (15) | 2

There are places on the Moon where the sun hasn't shined for millions of years. Dark polar craters too deep for sunlight to penetrate are luna incognita, the realm of the unknown, and in their inky depths, ...