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The crater left by the object is 65ft wide and 20ft deep |
Hundreds of people have suffered headaches, nausea, and respiratory problems after an object from space – believed to be a meteorite – crashed in southern Peru.
Witnesses told of a fiery ball falling from the sky and smashing …
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A spectacular launch of the Dawn spacecraft into a beautiful Florida sky. Photo credit: NASA |
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft began its 1.7 billion mile journey through the inner solar system to study a pair of asteroids Thursday at 7:34 a.m. EDT.
The Delta 2 rocket, fitted with nine strap-on solid-fuel boosters, …
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NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft has discovered entrances to seven possible caves on the slopes of a Martian volcano. |
NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft has discovered entrances to seven possible caves on the slopes of a Martian volcano. The find is fueling interest in potential underground habitats and sparking searches for caverns …
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NASA has made a decision to restart an astronomy mission that will have greater capability than any existing instrument for detecting black holes in the local universe.
The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, will expand our understanding of the origins and destinies of stars and galaxies. NASA had stopped …
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False-color image of gully channels in a crater in the southern highlands of Mars, taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. |
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is examining several features on Mars that address the role of water at different times in Martian …
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This course is designed to provide, for non-science majors, a description of the fantastic Universe in which we live.
The structure and evolution of planets, stars, galaxies, and the cosmos as a whole are covered, providing insights into amazing objects like quasars, exploding stars, neutron stars, and black holes. …
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Two months after sky-darkening dust from severe storms nearly killed NASA’s Mars exploration rovers, the solar-powered robots are awake and ready to continue their mission. Opportunity’s planned descent into the giant Victoria Crater was delayed, but now the rover is preparing to drive into the half-mile diameter crater as early …
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