Colorful new maps of Ceres, based on data from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, showcase a diverse topography, with height differences between crater bottoms and mountain peaks as great as 9 miles (15 kilometers).
Scientists continue to analyze the latest data from Dawn as the spacecraft makes its way to its third mapping orbit.
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Watch the NASA TV coverage of the asteroid redirection systems session of the NASA-hosted public workshop at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston to examine 96 of the ideas submitted to the recent Request For Information on ways to accomplish the agency’s asteroid initiative.… Read the rest of this article
NASA and international researchers have discovered that Earth’s moon has more in common than previously thought with large asteroids roaming our solar system.
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Scientists have now discovered that studying meteorites from the giant asteroid Vesta helps them understand the event known as the “lunar cataclysm,” when a repositioning of the gas giant planets destabilized a portion of the asteroid belt …
A recent workshop conducted for NASA by the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) in Houston, marked a key step in the agency’s effort to forge a new Mars strategy in the coming decades. A report that summarizes the wide range of cutting-edge science, technology and mission concepts discussed is available online.
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NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft passes above Mars’ south pole …
NASA’s call to scientists and engineers to help plan a new strategy to explore Mars has resulted in almost double the amount of expected submissions with unique and bold ideas.
Mars Concepts 2012 Conference: Bringing together NASA organizations and the technical and scientific communities in an open forum to advance Mars exploration.
About 400 concepts or abstracts were submitted to … Read the rest of this article
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