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Lava flows in Daedalia Planum

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mars Express imaged Daedalia Planum, a sparsely cratered, untextured plain on the Red Planet featuring solidified lava flows of varying ages.

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created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Researchers find new form of Mars lava flow

High-resolution photos of lava flows on Mars reveal coiling spiral patterns that resemble snail or nautilus shells. Such patterns have been found in a few locations on Earth, but never before on Mars. The ...

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created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Scientists suggest evidence of recent lunar volcanism

A team of researchers at India’s Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) claims it has found evidence of relatively recent volcanic activity on the Moon, using data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ...

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created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Volcanic plumbing provides clues on eruptions and earthquakes

Two new studies into the "plumbing systems" that lie under volcanoes could bring scientists closer to understanding plate ruptures and predicting eruptions—both of which are important steps for protecting ...

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created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Volcanic plumbing exposed

Two new studies into the "plumbing systems" that lie under volcanoes could bring scientists closer to predicting large eruptions.

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created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

THEMIS Mars camera celebrates a decade's discoveries

Ten years ago, on Feb. 19, 2002, the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS), a multi-band camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter, began scientific operations at the Red Planet. Since then the camera has circled ...

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created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The legacy of the megaflood

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ambling through the parched and scarred landscape of eastern Washington state is the 60-mile-long Grand Coulee, the largest of the stair-step canyons that give the region called the Channeled ...

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created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

'Honeycombs' and hexacopters help tell story of Mars

In a rough-and-tumble wonderland of plunging canyons and towering buttes, some of the still-raw bluffs are lined with soaring, six-sided stone columns so orderly and trim, they could almost pass as relics ...

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created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Seeking a pot of geological gold

Researchers are moving a step closer to solving one of the greatest murder mysteries of all time. It happened roughly 200 million years ago, marking the boundary between the Triassic and Jurassic periods, ...

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created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Planned Tanzanian soda ash plant threatens flamingoes

Salmon-coloured clouds of flamingoes sweeping overhead is a common sight at east Africa's Rift Valley lakes, but the mounds of mud where they lay their eggs are found only here.

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created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

New mystery on Mars' forgotten plains

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the supposedly best understood and least interesting landscapes on Mars is hiding something that could rewrite the planet's history. Or not. In fact, about all that is certain is that ...

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created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 10 | with audio podcast


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