News tagged with small moons

Researchers show small robots can prepare lunar surface for NASA outpost

(PhysOrg.com) -- Small robots the size of riding mowers could prepare a safe landing site for NASA's Moon outpost, according to a NASA-sponsored study prepared by Astrobotic Technology Inc. with technical ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (13) | comments 13




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Two new moons for Jupiter

Advances in technology have lead to the discovery of new planets outside of our Solar System, and now even new moons in our own backyard.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 7

Life in Antarctic lake? It's everywhere else

If scientists find microbes in a frigid lake two miles beneath the thick ice of Antarctica, it will illustrate once again that somehow life finds a way to survive in the strangest and harshest places.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

China unveils high resolution global moon map

Chinese scientists have assembled the highest resolution map ever created of the entire Moon and unveiled a series of global Moon images on Monday, Feb. 6.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0

A bouncing moon boulder

One solitary boulder on the Moon apparently decided to take a little journey. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera captured the track of a bouncing, rolling 9-meter boulder that used to sit along the rim ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Image: Saturn's rings and Enceladus

(PhysOrg.com) -- A crescent Enceladus appears with Saturn’s rings in this Cassini spacecraft view of the moon.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Surface of Mars an unlikely place for life after 600 million year drought, say scientists

Mars may have been arid for more than 600 million years, making it too hostile for any life to survive on the planet's surface, according to researchers who have been carrying out the painstaking task of analysing ...

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created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (13) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Scientists chart high-precision map of Milky Way's magnetic fields

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are part of an international team that has pooled their radio observations into a database, producing the highest precision map to date of ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Looks like we’re still looking for earthly life forms on other planets

In late 2010, NASA set the Internet buzzing when it called a press conference to discuss an astrobiological finding that would impact the search for extraterrestrial life. Many speculated that some primitive ...

Biology / Other

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Canada looks to the future in space

When it comes to space, the first thing most people think of is NASA. Or Russia and the European Space Agency, or even more recently, countries like China and Japan. In the public eye, Canada has tended to ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Experts say Gingrich moon base dreams not lunacy

(AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich wants to create a lunar colony that he says could become a U.S. state. There's his grand research plan to figure out what makes the human brain tick. ...

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created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 53


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