News tagged with high atmosphere
A hot new look at working fuel cells
Measuring a fuel cell's overall performance is relatively easy, but measuring its components individually as they work together is a challenge. That's because one of the best experimental techniques for investigating ...
Oct 05, 2010 |
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Recreating Venus in the Lab
Scientists are reproducing the environment of Venus so that they can interpret observations of the planet's surface and atmosphere. Studying environmental processes on Venus can help astrobiologists better ...
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Aug 04, 2010 |
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UA-Operated Stereo Camera Selected for Mars Mission
(PhysOrg.com) -- The UA's High Resolution Stereo Color Imager was selected as one of five instruments for the first joint mission to Mars by NASA and the European Space Agency. HiSCI is designed to uncover ...
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Aug 03, 2010 |
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Listening to other stars
When scientists realised that observing and analysing oscillations in the Sun could provide information about its interior, it was only a matter of time before Helioseismology was put to work on other stars.
Feb 15, 2010 |
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Distal Rampart of Crater in Chryse Planitia
(PhysOrg.com) -- Impact craters on Mars are kind of neat. Many of them look very different than impact craters seen on Earth's moon or Mercury. Fresh lunar and Mercurian craters have ejecta blankets that look ...
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Nov 13, 2009 |
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CloudSat captures a sideways look at fading Lana
NASA satellites do some really cool things, like take a sideways look at a slice of a tropical depression. That's what CloudSat did with Lana in the Central Pacific.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 03, 2009 |
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Pollution dims skies as well as befouling the air
A University of Maryland-led team has compiled the first decades-long database of aerosol measurements over land, making possible new research into how air pollution changes affect climate change.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 12, 2009 |
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Watching Venus glow in the dark
(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft has observed an eerie glow in the night-time atmosphere of Venus. This infrared light comes from nitric oxide and is showing scientists that the atmosphere of ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 24, 2009 |
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