News tagged with crater
Mars Express puts craters on a pedestal
(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's Mars Express has returned new views of pedestal craters in the Red Planet's eastern Arabia Terra.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 04, 2011 |
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Spectacular view of Aitken Crater from sideways LRO glance
When people look out of the corner of their eyes, they often don't see things very clearly. But that's not the case for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's cameras. Occasionally LRO's cameras are commanded ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 20, 2011 |
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Features on asteroid revealed by radar
(PhysOrg.com) -- Radar imaging at NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar in the California desert on Dec. 11 and 12, 2010, revealed defining characteristics of recently discovered asteroid 2010 JL33. The images ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 12, 2011 |
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Opportunity studying a football-field size crater
(PhysOrg.com) -- On Dec. 16, 2010, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity reached a crater about the size of a football field-some 90 meters (295 feet) in diameter. The rover team plans to use cameras and ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 23, 2010 |
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Schiaparelli on Mars shaped by wind, water
The small crater embedded in the northwestern rim of the Schiaparelli impact basin features prominently in this new image from ESA’s Mars Express. All around is evidence for past water and the great martian ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 10, 2010 |
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Image: Dark dune fields of proctor crater, Mars
The dark rippled dunes of Mars' Proctor Crater likely formed more recently than the lighter rock forms they appear to cover, and are thought to slowly shift in response to pervasive winds.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 29, 2010 |
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Mars Rover images honor Apollo 12
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has visited and photographed two craters informally named for the spacecraft that carried men to the moon 41 years ago this week.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 19, 2010 |
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Engineered collision spills new Moon secrets (w/ Video)
Scientists led by Brown University are offering the first detailed explanation of the crater formed when a NASA rocket slammed into the Moon last fall and information about the composition of the lunar soil ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 21, 2010 |
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Scientists detected surprising gases in Moon impact plume
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and its sophisticated suite of instruments have determined that hydrogen, mercury and other volatile substances are present in permanently shaded soils on the Moon, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 21, 2010 |
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Nine moons, 62 Hours for (long) weekend warrior
Taking a long-weekend road trip, NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully glided near nine Saturnian moons, sending back a stream of raw images as mementos of its adrenaline-fueled expedition. The spacecraft ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 20, 2010 |
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Opportunity rover halfway point reached
(PhysOrg.com) -- When NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity left Victoria Crater two years ago this month, the rover science team chose Endeavour Crater as the rover's next long-term destination. With ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 09, 2010 |
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Study suggests dinosaurs killed off by more than one asteroid
(PhysOrg.com) -- Dinosaurs, along with over half of other species, became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period about 65.5 million years ago, and many scientists believe this was due to a single impact ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 31, 2010 |
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Mars's mysterious elongated crater
(PhysOrg.com) -- Orcus Patera is an enigmatic elliptical depression near Mars's equator, in the eastern hemisphere of the planet. Located between the volcanoes of Elysium Mons and Olympus Mons, its formation ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 27, 2010 |
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Untouched meteorite impact crater found via Google Earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- A pristine meteorite impact crater has been found in a remote area of the Sahara desert in southwest Egypt. The crater was originally noticed on Google Earth images, and is believed to be ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 26, 2010 |
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Man in the Moon has 'Graphite Whiskers'
Up to now scientists thought that the trace amounts of carbon on the surface of the Moon came from the solar wind. Now researchers at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory have detected and dated ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 01, 2010 |
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