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Feb 22 | News
Astronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, discovered buckyballs in a solid form in space. Prior to this discovery, the microscopic carbon spheres had been found only in gas form in the cosmos.
11/3/2011 | News
A
new NASA study suggests if life ever existed on Mars, the longest
lasting habitats were most likely below the Red Planet's surface.
Spectral evidence gathered by orbiters support a new hypothesis that
persistent warm water was confined to the subsurface, and erosional were
carved during brief periods when the surface supported stable water.
9/15/2011 | News
A NASA-led team has used radar sounding technology developed to
explore the subsurface of Mars to create high-resolution maps of
freshwater
aquifers buried deep beneath an Earth desert, in the first use of
airborne
sounding radar for aquifer mapping. The research may help scientists better locate and map Earth's
desert aquifers, understand current and past hydrological conditions in
Earth's
deserts, and assess how climate change is impacting them.
8/18/2011 | News
With
the help of billions of data points captured by European, Japanese and
Canadian satellites to weed out cloud cover, solar glare and other
blocking features, NASA-funded researchers have created the first
complete map of the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica.
8/2/2011 | News
Last
month, NASA's Dawn spacecraft began orbiting the 330-mile-wide rocky
body of Vesta, the asteroid belt’s second-largest resident. The latest
photos have been full of surprises, revealing extensive features, from
multiple craters to mysterious grooves, that will keep scientists busy
for years.
7/25/2011 | News
Gale
Crater was chosen as the target for the $2.5 billion Mars Science
Laboratory mission after an extensive review of dozens of potential
sites. NASA chose this site because they believe they have located the
boundary where life may have sprung up and where it may have been
extinguished.
7/25/2011 | News
Water really is everywhere. Two teams of astronomers, each led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology, have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. Looking from a distance of 30 billion trillion miles away into a quasar, the researchers have found a mass of water vapor that's at least 140 trillion times that of all the water in the world's oceans combined.
7/19/2011 | News
Vesta,
thought to be the source of a large number of meteorites that fall to
Earth, was visited close-up over the weekend by NASA’s Dawn space probe,
which is the first spacecraft to enter orbit around an object in the
main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
6/29/2011 | News
Ever since a crash landing on Earth grounded NASA's
Genesis mission in 2004, scientists have been gathering, cleaning, and
analyzing solar wind particles collected by the spacecraft. Now, two new
studies published in Science
reveal that Earth's chemistry is less like the sun's than previously
thought.
6/22/2011 | News
Based
on water vapor plumes found by the spacecraft Cassini in 2005,
researchers already suspected that Enceladus hid a liquid saltwater
ocean. Now, based on the dynamics of plumes studied by the Cassini team,
they are now more certain that 50 miles beneath the surface crust a
large body of liquid water exists between the rocky core and the icy
mantle.
