News tagged with water vapour
Venus Express adds evidence for atmospheric water loss on Earth's Twin
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 16, 2009 |
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Observations by the European Space Agency’s Venus Express mission have provided strong new evidence that the solar wind has stripped away significant quantities of water from Earth’s twin planet. The data ...
Mars, methane and mysteries
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 10, 2009 |
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Mars may not be as dormant as scientists once thought. The 2004 discovery of methane means that either there is life on Mars, or that volcanic activity continues to generate heat below the martian surface. ...
How the moon got its stripes
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 15, 2009 |
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A new study has revealed the origins of tiger stripes and a subsurface ocean on Enceladus- one of Saturn's many moons. These geological features are believed to be the result of the moon's unusual chemical ...
Meteorite bombardment may have made Earth more habitable
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Large bombardments of meteorites approximately four billion years ago could have helped to make the early Earth and Mars more habitable for life by modifying their atmospheres, suggests the ...
Team finds smallest transiting extrasolar planet ever
Feb 03, 2009 |
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The CoRoT satellite has discovered a planet only twice as large as the Earth orbiting a star slightly smaller than the Sun. It is the smallest extrasolar planet (planet outside our solar system) whose radius ...
