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Frost-Covered Phoenix Lander Seen in Winter Images

Frost-Covered Phoenix Lander Seen in Winter Images

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Winter images of NASA's Phoenix Lander showing the lander shrouded in dry-ice frost on Mars have been captured with the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE camera, aboard ...


Phoenix Camera Sees Morning Frost at the Landing Site

Phoenix Camera Sees Morning Frost at the Landing Site

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 18, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (13) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Surface Stereo Imager, or SSI, on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has seen water frost on the ground around the spacecraft's landing site.





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Vietnam Internet users fear Facebook blackout

Technology / Internet

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Vietnam's growing legions of Facebook users fear that the country's communist government might be blocking the popular social networking Web site, which has become difficult to access over the past few weeks.


Excavation unravels mysteries of men's gymnasium's demise during 1906 earthquake

Excavation unravels mysteries of men's gymnasium's demise during 1906 earthquake

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

More than a year into an excavation project of the men's gymnasium that was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake, Stanford university archaeologist Laura Jones' team has unearthed evidence suggesting why the newly ...


A Mars Rover Named 'Curiosity'

A Mars Rover Named 'Curiosity'

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you found your grandmother's diary, tattered and dust covered, up in the attic, would you read it? Of course you would. Granny was a pistol! Brush off the dust, open up the little book, ...


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Google rolls out preview of Wave

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created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Google hits a key milestone Wednesday for a product that the search giant hopes will transform how people communicate and collaborate online, and perhaps hook more users on Google's menu of Web-based services.


This could be an awesome year for fall foliage, expert says

This could be an awesome year for fall foliage, expert says

Biology / Other

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For more than 20 years, Marc Abrams has studied how precipitation and temperature influence the timing and intensity of fall foliage colors in Pennsylvania. Every year during that span, there ...


Scientists see water ice in fresh meteorite craters on Mars

Scientists see water ice in fresh meteorite craters on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are seeing sub-surface water ice that may be 99 percent pure halfway between the north pole and the equator on Mars, thanks to quick-turnaround observations from orbit of fresh ...


Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

NASA Lunar Satellite Begins Detailed Mapping of Moon's South Pole

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA reported Thursday that its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully completed its testing and calibration phase and entered its mapping orbit of the moon.


Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's LAMP shedding light on permanently shadowed regions of the moon

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's LAMP shedding light on permanently shadowed regions of the moon

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created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), launched on June 18 of this year, has begun its extensive exploration of the lunar environment and will return more data about the Moon than any previous mission. ...


A woman cuts sugar cane with a machete during harvest in Guariba, Brazil

Sugar cane to return to Angola in biofuel move

Technology / Energy

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Angola will begin planting sugar cane for the first time in more than 30 years this month as the oil-rich country takes its first step toward biofuels.


Discovery Set for Aug. 25 Launch

Discovery Set for Aug. 25 Launch

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created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Flight Readiness Review for space shuttle Discovery's STS-128 mission has concluded, setting the launch date for Tuesday, Aug. 25 at 1:36 a.m. EDT.



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