Meteorite crashes through roof of a house in Connecticut
A rock that crashed through a house in Connecticut last weekend has been confirmed to be a meteorite.
Apr 24, 2013
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Apr 24, 2013
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Mineral analysis of lunar crater deposit prompts a second look at the impact cratering process
Large impacts on the Moon can form wide craters and turn surface rock liquid. Geophysicists once assumed that liquid rock would be homogenous when it cooled. Now researchers have found evidence that pre-existing ...
Apr 02, 2013
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Lab instruments inside Curiosity eat Mars rock powder
(Phys.org)—Two compact laboratories inside NASA's Mars rover Curiosity have ingested portions of the first sample of rock powder ever collected from the interior of a rock on Mars. ...
Feb 26, 2013
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Curiosity rover confirms first drilled Mars rock sample
(Phys.org)—NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images that confirm it has successfully obtained the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another planet. No rover has ever drilled ...
Feb 20, 2013
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Clays on Mars: More plentiful than expected
(Phys.org)—A new study co-authored by the Georgia Institute of Technology indicates that clay minerals, rocks that usually form when water is present for long periods of time, cover a larger portion of ...
Dec 20, 2012
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What is creating gullies on Vesta?
(Phys.org)—In a preliminary analysis of images from NASA's Dawn mission, scientists have spotted intriguing gullies that sculpt the walls of geologically young craters on the giant asteroid Vesta. Led by ...
Dec 06, 2012
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Curiosity rover: No big surprise in first soil test
(Phys.org)—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 Martian soil. Water and sulfur and chlorine-containing ...
Dec 03, 2012
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Curiosity rover shakes, bakes, and tastes Mars with SAM (w/ video)
NASA's Curiosity rover analyzed its first solid sample of Mars in Nov. with a variety of instruments, including the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite. Developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...
Dec 03, 2012
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Mars soil sample delivered for analysis inside rover
(Phys.org)—NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has ingested its first solid sample into an analytical instrument inside the rover, a capability at the core of the two-year mission.
Oct 18, 2012
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Curiosity rover's second scoop discarded, third scoop commanded
(Phys.org)—Commands will be sent to Curiosity today instructing the rover to collect a third scoop of soil from the "Rocknest" site of windblown Martian sand and dust. Pending evaluation of this Sol 69 ...
Oct 15, 2012
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Curiosity rover prepares to study martian soil
(Phys.org)—NASA's Curiosity rover is in a position on Mars where scientists and engineers can begin preparing the rover to take its first scoop of soil for analysis.
Oct 04, 2012
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National Ice Core Lab stores valuable ancient ice
It's a freezing cold day inside the National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL) in Denver, Colo., as it is every day of the year. That's because the NICL is a facility for storing and studying ice cores recovered ...
Oct 02, 2012
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Popigai: Russia's vast, untouched diamond crater
In the far north of Siberia, Russian scientists have stepped up research on a once-secret deposit of diamonds whose scale dwarfs anything ever discovered and could turn world markets "upside down".
Sep 19, 2012
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Rock stars: Geologists testing aquifer rocks as containers to permanently trap carbon dioxide
(Phys.org) -- Two Kansas State University geologists are part of a comprehensive statewide study on using rocks for long-term storage of carbon dioxide.
Jul 09, 2012
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NASA's Moon Mapper Beholds Home
(PhysOrg.com) -- This image of Earth taken from 200 kilometers (124 miles) above the lunar surface was taken by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper, one of two NASA instruments onboard the Indian Space Research Organization's ...
Aug 03, 2009
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