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Microwaving Water from Moondust

Microwaving Water from Moondust (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2

NASA is figuring out how to make water from moondust. Sounds like magic? "No magic--" says Ed Ethridge of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center "-- just microwaves. We're showing how microwaves can extract water ...


HiRISE Sees Signs of an Unearthly Spring on Mars

HiRISE Sees Signs of an Unearthly Spring on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New images from the HiRISE experiment detail patterns of dust carried by gas from beneath the seasonal ice cap.


Scientists confirms liquid-liquid phase transition in silicon

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Using rigorous computer calculations, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Institution of Washington have established evidence that supercooled silicon experiences a liquid-liquid phase transition, ...





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Cousin of the 'ice that burns' emerges as greener new way to fight fires

Cousin of the 'ice that burns' emerges as greener new way to fight fires

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in Japan are reporting development of a new type of ice that may provide a more efficient, environmentally-friendly method for putting out fires, including out-of control blazes ...


'Frozen smoke:' The ultimate sponge for cleaning up oil spills

'Frozen smoke:' The ultimate sponge for cleaning up oil spills

Chemistry /

created Feb 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Scientists in Arizona and New Jersey are reporting that aerogels, a super-lightweight solid sometimes called "frozen smoke," may serve as the ultimate sponge for capturing oil from wastewater and effectively ...


Enceladus

How the moon got its stripes

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 5

A new study has revealed the origins of tiger stripes and a subsurface ocean on Enceladus- one of Saturn's many moons. These geological features are believed to be the result of the moon's unusual chemical ...


Model Suggests Origins of Mars Gullies

Model Suggests Origins of Mars Gullies

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 09, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 4

University of Arkansas researchers have used chemistry and geology to create a model that may explain the mystery of how modern-day gullies form on the surface of Mars.


Phoenix Scoops Up Martian Soil

Phoenix Lander Prepares for Microscopy, Wet Chemistry on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 24, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has delivered a scoop of Martian soil from the "Snow White" trenches to the optical microscope for analysis tomorrow, June 24, the 29th Martian day of the mission, or Sol 29.


NASA Debuts Unique Movie on a Sphere About Frozen Earth

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

NASA has created a unique "spherical" movie about Earth's changing ice and snow cover as captured by NASA spacecraft. "Frozen," a 12-minute, narrated film, premieres at science centers and museums March 27.


Polar Sea Ice replicated in Hamburg

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- As northern Europe enjoys a rather warm start to autumn, an international team of 20 polar scientists have brought icy winter conditions to the middle of Hamburg, Germany. They are studying the effect of ...


Slow-frozen people? Latest research supports possibility of cryopreservation

Chemistry /

created Jun 20, 2006 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (59) | comments 0

The latest research on water - still one of the least understood of all liquids despite a century of intensive study – seems to support the possibility that cells, tissues and even the entire human body could be cryopreserved ...


Mars Express radar gauges water quantity around Mars south pole

Mars Express radar gauges water quantity around Mars south pole

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 15, 2007 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (24) | comments 0

The amount of water trapped in frozen layers over Mars' south polar region is equivalent to a liquid layer about 11 metres deep covering the planet.


Phoenix Mars Lander Continues Tests With Rasp

Phoenix Mars Lander Continues Tests With Rasp

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 18, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (11) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The team operating NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander plans to tell the lander today to do a second, larger test of using a motorized rasp to produce and gather shavings of frozen ground.



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