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Kansas scientists probe mysterious possible comet strikes on Earth

Dec 14, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (12) | 8

It's the stuff of a Hollywood disaster epic: A comet plunges from outer space into the Earth's atmosphere, splitting the sky with a devastating shock wave that flattens forests and shakes the countryside.

Gullies and Flow Features on Crater Wall

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 26, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

(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 ...

LCROSS Impact Data Indicates Water on Moon

LCROSS Impact Finds Water on the Moon

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 13, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (31) | 15

(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 ...

Distal Rampart of Crater in Chryse Planitia

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 13, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(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 ...

Mars: Chaotic terrain between Kasei Valles and Sacra Fossae

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 06, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (8) | 0

(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.

Hidden Territory on Mercury Revealed

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 04, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (20) | 1

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 ...

Icebreaker: Scientist brings out the big gun to explore the behavior of ice in planetary collisions

Icebreaker: Scientist brings out big gun to explore behavior of ice in planetary collisions

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 29, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(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 ...

Channels from Mars Hale Crater

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 28, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (7) | 1

(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) ...

Latvian experts say meteorite crater was hoax (Update)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 26, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (3) | 0

(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.

LCROSS Captures All Phases of Centaur Impact

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 18, 2009 | 4 / 5 (10) | 0

(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 ...

Giant impact near India -- not Mexico -- may have doomed dinosaurs

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Oct 15, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (42) | 15

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 ...

Moon crash: Public yawns, scientists celebrate

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 10, 2009 | 3.9 / 5 (19) | 11

(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 ...

NASA to moon: Get ready because here we come (AP)

NASA probes hit moon twice (Update 2)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 09, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (7) | 11

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 ...

Goddard Visualization Team Previews Lunar Impact

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 08, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(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 ...