News tagged with planetary surface
New instrument has potential to detect water deep underground on Mars (w/ Video)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With the whoosh of compressed gas and the whir of unspooling wire, a team of Boulder scientists and engineers tested a new instrument prototype that might be used to detect groundwater deep ...
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C1XS success will provide new understanding of lunar surface
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 18, 2009 |
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Over its ten months of operation, the Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS) gathered data for a total of 30 solar flares, giving the most accurate measurements to date of magnesium, aluminium, silicon, calcium ...
Young planets stay hotter longer
Oct 14, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Young planets around other stars may be easier to spot because they stay hotter way longer than astronomers have thought, according to new work by MIT planetary scientist Linda Elkins-Tanton.
Model Suggests Origins of Mars Gullies
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 09, 2009 |
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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.
Astronomers catch binary star explosion inside nebula
Nov 19, 2008 |
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The explosion of a binary star inside a planetary nebula has been captured by a team led by UCL (University College London) researchers – an event that has not been witnessed for more than 100 years. The study, published ...
Newly discovered star one of hottest in Galaxy (w/ Video)
Dec 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers at The University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics have discovered one of the hottest stars in the Galaxy with a surface temperature of around 200,000 degrees ...
Discovery of a Retrograde or Highly Tilted Extrasolar Planet
Nov 18, 2009 |
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Astronomers have found that the extrasolar planet HAT-P-7b has a retrograde or highly tilted orbit. Studying such planets is important in understanding the diversity of planetary systems and assessing current ...
Reconstruct Mars automatically in minutes
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 18, 2009 |
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A computer system is under development that can automatically combine images of the Martian surface, captured by landers or rovers, in order to reproduce a three dimensional view of the red planet. The resulting ...
The search for unusual alien life on Earth and life that can survive on Mars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Questions such as "How to search for weird alien life?" and "Would Earth microbes survive if delivered to the surface of Mars?" are addressed in articles that are part of the collection of reports presented ...
The continents as a heat blanket
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Drifting of the large tectonic plates and the superimposed continents is not only powered by the heat-driven convection processes in the Earth's mantle, but rather retroacts on this internal driving processes. In doing so, ...
Water Bears to Travel to Martian Moon, Test Theory of Transpermia
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny microscopic creatures commonly known as water bears (also called Tardigrades), along with a few other life forms, will be sent to the Martian moon Phobos to test whether organisms can ...
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