News tagged with ancient meteorite
Opportunity passes small crater and big milestone
(PhysOrg.com) -- A drive of 482 feet (146.8 meters) on June 1, 2011, took NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity past 30 kilometers (18.64 miles) in total odometry during 88 months of driving on Mars. That's ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 06, 2011 |
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Shooting Meteorites in a Barrel
High-impact lab experiments simulate whether the building blocks of life could have survived the rough arrival on Earth via meteorite impact.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 26, 2010 |
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New Study of Meteorite Provides More Evidence for Ancient Life on Mars
(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1996, when scientists examined a meteorite from Mars previously uncovered in Antarctica, they were intrigued by what looked like microscopic fossils of ancient Martian life forms. Now, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Earth's atmosphere came from outer space, find scientists
(PhysOrg.com) -- The gases which formed the Earth's atmosphere - and probably its oceans - did not come from inside the Earth but from outer space, according to a study by University of Manchester and University ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 10, 2009 |
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Meteorite bombardment may have made Earth more habitable
(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 ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 01, 2009 |
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