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Mountain on Mars may answer big question

The Martian volcano Olympus Mons is about three times the height of Mount Everest, but it's the small details that Rice University professors Patrick McGovern and Julia Morgan are looking at in thinking about ...

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created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (17) | comments 1




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Tidal locking could render habitable planets inhospitable

Tidally-locked planets - planets with one side perpetually facing their star while the other remains shrouded in darkness - tend to be warmer on one side than the other. The presence of an atmosphere can help ...

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created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

New mystery on Mars' forgotten plains

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the supposedly best understood and least interesting landscapes on Mars is hiding something that could rewrite the planet's history. Or not. In fact, about all that is certain is that ...

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created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Martian water vs. the volcanoes

For decades NASA has been "following the water" on Mars with hopes of finding signs of alien life there; or at least signs that future colonists won't die of thirst. Now a Texas geologist has dared to revive ...

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created Jul 27, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Seeking life's imprint in shifting desert sand

A group of scientists are hunched over, their eyes intently scanning the jumble of rocks on the ground. Every now and then, someone picks one up for closer inspection, turning it over and over again in their ...

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created May 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Chemistry on Mars reveals cooling rate

(PhysOrg.com) -- French researchers from the University of Toulouse have published a paper in Nature, that describes how they used data from NASA's Mars Odyssey (currently orbiting the planet) to ascertain the am ...

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created Apr 07, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Mars in Spain

A study coordinated by Universitat Autònoma Barcelona (UAB) on the origin and evolution of peculiar morphologies created by ancient subterranean springs in the central pre-Pyrenees of Catalonia (Spain) ...

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created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Pits, flows, other scenes in new set of Mars images

Newly released images from 340 recent observations of Mars by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show details of a wide assortment of Martian ...

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created Dec 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Mars mysteries could be answered through airplanes

There are regions on Mars where the ground is much too rugged for a rover to explore. Instead, a robotic, rocket-powered airplane could be the ideal way to investigate some of these intriguing but as-yet inaccessible ...

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created Oct 08, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

'The Year of the Solar System' to begin

To mark an unprecedented flurry of exploration which is about to begin, NASA announced yesterday that the coming year will be "The Year of the Solar System" (YSS).

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created Oct 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A 3-D world: New technology allows students to take virtual field trips

(PhysOrg.com) -- The geosciences center may be ordering 3-D glasses by the hundreds, but students won’t be watching Avatar.

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