Earth at Night – as You’ve Never Seen It Before
On December 5th, at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco, scientists unveiled an unprecedented new look at our planet at night. A global composite…
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Most Accurate Moon Gravity Map Created by NASA GRAIL Spacecraft
Twin NASA probes orbiting Earth’s moon have generated the highest resolution gravity field map of any celestial body. This movie shows the variations in the lunar…
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Voyager 1 Enters New Region of Deep Space
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region at the far reaches of our solar system that scientists feel is the final area the spacecraft…
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Curiosity Rover Fully Analyzes Its First Soil Samples
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has used its full array of instruments to analyze Martian soil for the first time, and found a complex chemistry within the…
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Are Volcanoes Currently Erupting on Venus?
Six years of observations by ESA’s Venus Express have shown large changes in the sulphur dioxide content of the planet’s atmosphere, and one intriguing possible explanation…
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Abell 520’s Core May Not Harbor Dark Matter After All
Now you see it, now you don’t. Douglas Clowe of Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, is reporting on new Hubble observations that do not find an…
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Ancient Microbes Found Alive and Well in Antarctic Lake
Nearly 65 feet beneath the icy surface of a remote Antarctic lake, scientists from NASA, the Desert Research Institute (DRI) in Reno, Nev., the University of…
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NASA Publishes New “Earth as Art” Book for iPad and PDF Readers
A stunning array of images of our home planet, taken by Earth-observing science satellites, are featured in a new NASA publication. The book, “Earth as Art,”…
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After two decades of satellite observations, an international team of experts brought together by ESA and NASA has produced the most accurate assessment of ice losses…
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NASA MESSENGER Spaceraft Finds Huge Ice Deposit on Mercury
New data from NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft suggest that there’s enough ice on Mercury to encase the entire US capitol. “The new data indicate the water ice…
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