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New Views of Martian Moon and Surface

New Views of Martian Moon and Surface

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- New images from two observations of the Martian moon Deimos and more than 600 observations of Mars, acquired by the high-resolution camera (HiRISE) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, became ...





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Panel says NASA should skip moon, fly elsewhere (AP)

Panel says NASA should skip moon, fly elsewhere (Update)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (12) | comments 23

(AP) -- NASA needs to make a major detour on its grand plans to return astronauts to the moon, a special independent panel told the White House Thursday.


Mysterious space blob discovered at cosmic dawn

Mysterious space blob discovered at cosmic dawn (w/Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (25) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of astronomers, led by Carnegie's Masami Ouchi, have discovered a mysterious, giant object that existed when the universe was only 800 million years old. Dubbed an extended "Lyman-Alpha ...


DEIMOS joins MARS and its satellite of instruments on seafloor

DEIMOS joins MARS and its satellite of instruments on seafloor

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The planet Mars has a moon named Deimos, so it seems only appropriate that the ocean observatory MARS in Monterey Bay have its own DEIMOS. This DEIMOS, however, is an underwater acoustic package designed to ...


Mars' moon Phobos

Scientists close in on the origin of Mars' larger moon

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created Oct 16, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- European space scientists are getting closer to unravelling the origin of Mars’ larger moon, Phobos. Thanks to a series of close encounters by ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, the moon looks ...


Martian moon Phobos

Mars Express to rendezvous with Martian moon

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created Jul 16, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists and engineers are preparing ESA’s Mars Express for a pair of close fly-bys of the Martian moon Phobos. Passing within 100 km of the surface, Mars Express will conduct some of the ...


Phoenix probe lands on Mars

Phoenix probe lands on Mars (Update 4)

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created May 25, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (46) | comments 1

NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars Sunday to begin three months of examining a site chosen for its likelihood of having frozen water within reach of the lander's robotic ...


Spacecraft Images Mars Moon in Color and in 3D

MRO Spacecraft Images Mars Moon in Color and in 3D

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created Apr 09, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 3

A new stereo view of Phobos, the larger and inner of Mars' two tiny moons, has been captured by a NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars.


New Views of Martian Moons

New Views of Martian Moons

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created Nov 28, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (31) | comments 0

These two images taken by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) show Mars' two small moons, Phobos and Deimos, as seen from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's low orbit around Mars. ...


Dark, but Light: Smallest Galaxies Ever Seen Solve a Big Problem

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created Sep 12, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (29) | comments 0

Mauna Kea scientists may have solved a discrepancy between the number of extremely small, faint galaxies predicted to exist near the Milky Way and the number actually observed. In an attempt to resolve the “Missing Dwarf ...


Newly Discovered Olympian Galaxy Will Provide Fresh Insights into Galactic Formation

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created May 30, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

A newly discovered dwarf galaxy in our local group has been found to have formed in a region of space far from our own and is falling into our system for the first time in its history.



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