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New deep-sea observatory goes live
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Nov 17, 2008 |
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Off the coast of Central California, in the inky darkness of the deep sea, a bright orange metal pyramid about the size of two compact cars sits quietly on the seafloor. Nestled within the metal pyramid is ...
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Taiwan names small astral body
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Oct 17, 2007 |
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Astronomers in Taiwan have named a small astral body they discovered between Mars and Jupiter Chiayi after the county where their observatory is located.
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Reveals Rock Fracture Plumbing on Mars
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Sep 25, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed hundreds of small fractures exposed on the Martian surface that billions of years ago directed flows of water through underground Martian sandstone. ...
Rare Scottish mineral may indicate life on Mars
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Dec 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) scientists is looking for clues about life on Mars in an earthy clay mineral found only in Aberdeenshire in Scotland.
DEIMOS joins MARS and its satellite of instruments on seafloor
Mar 19, 2009 |
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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 ...
Thirty-Two Mile Cable Installed for First Deep-Sea Observatory
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Apr 04, 2007 |
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Oceanographers have completed an important step in constructing the first deep-sea observatory off the continental United States. Workers in the multi-institution effort laid 32 miles (52 kilometers) of cable ...
Asteroid Threatens to Hit Mars
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Dec 21, 2007 |
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Astronomers funded by NASA are monitoring the trajectory of an asteroid named 2007 WD5 that is expected to cross the orbital path of Mars early next year. Calculations by NASA's Near-Earth Object Office at the ...
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Spacecraft Out of Safe Mode
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Dec 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter today has been taken out of the precautionary 'safe mode' it had been in since August.
Texas A&M prof to predict weather on Mars
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Nov 04, 2009 |
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Is there such a thing as "weather" on Mars? There are some doubts, considering the planet's atmosphere is only 1 percent as dense as that of the Earth. Mars, however, definitely has clouds, drastically low temperatures and ...
Mars Odyssey Orbiter Puts Itself Into Safe Standby
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Dec 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter put itself into a safe standby mode on Saturday, Nov. 28, and the team operating the spacecraft has begun implementing careful steps designed to resume Odyssey's ...
Scientists close in on the origin of Mars' larger moon
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Oct 16, 2008 |
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(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 ...
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