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Next Mars Soil Scoop Slated for Last of Lander's Wet Lab Cells
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The next soil sample that NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander will deliver to its deck instruments will go to the fourth of the four cells of Phoenix's wet chemistry laboratory, according to the Phoenix ...
Phoenix Mars Lander Extending Trench
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Jul 15, 2008 |
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is using its Robotic Arm to enlarge an exposure of hard subsurface material expected to yield a sample of ice-rich soil for analysis in one of the lander's ovens.
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Snow slackers can be found around the world
Feb 04, 2009 |
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The streets were strangely quiet as I walked my daughter to school Tuesday morning. Baby stroller traffic jams are the norm in our south London neighborhood, nicknamed the "Nappy Valley" for its prodigious birthrate. But ...
Phoenix Rasps Frozen Layer, Collects Sample
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 16, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A powered rasp on the back of the robotic arm scoop of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander successfully drilled into the frozen soil and loosened material that was collected in the lander's scoop.
Phoenix Close-Up Images of 'Snow Queen' Show Changes
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Jul 30, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A distinctive hard-surface feature called "Snow Queen" beneath NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander visibly changed sometime between mid-June and mid-July, close-up images from the Robotic Arm Camera ...
Dirty snow causes early runoff in Cascades, Rockies
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 12, 2009 |
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Soot from pollution causes winter snowpacks to warm, shrink and warm some more. This continuous cycle sends snowmelt streaming down mountains as much as a month early, a new study finds. How pollution affects ...
Black wolves: The first genetically modified predators?
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Feb 05, 2009 |
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Emergence of black-colored wolves is the direct result of humans raising dogs as pets and beasts of burden, according to new research by a University of Calgary biologist published today by the prestigious ...
GPS to track blue sheep and snow leopard
Nov 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists hope to improve the survival odds of the endangered snow leopard in Nepal by venturing into the remote Himalayas to study its main prey, the Bharal or blue sheep.
City dwellers look to backyards when deciding to head to slopes
Dec 05, 2007 |
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City dwellers are less likely to head to the slopes when their backyards are bare, even if New England ski resorts have many feet of packed power and ideal skiing conditions, according to new research from the University ...
Phoenix Scrapes to Icy Soil in Wonderland
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Jun 30, 2008 |
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander scraped to icy soil in the "Wonderland" area on Thursday, June 26, confirming that surface soil, subsurface soil and icy soil can be sampled at a single trench.
Greenland and Antarctic ice sheet melting, rate unknown
Feb 16, 2009 |
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The Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets are melting, but the amounts that will melt and the time it will take are still unknown, according to Richard Alley, Evan Pugh professor of geosciences, Penn State.
Miniature lab ice spikes may hold clues to warming impacts on glaciers
Mar 05, 2007 |
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Tiny lab versions of 12-foot tall snow spikes that form naturally on some high mountain glaciers may someday help scientists mitigate the effects of global warming in the Andes, according to a University of ...
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