News tagged with planetary data system

Kepler mission announces next data release to public archive

The Kepler science team announced on Aug. 12 the next release of data to the public archive. Quarter three science data collected during the months of September to December 2009 will be available for download on Sept. 23, ...

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created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NASA details achievements of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

NASA has declared full mission success for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). As a result of the mission, LRO has changed our view of the entire moon and brought it into sharper focus with unprecedented ...

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created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Aalien mining

In what is starting to become a familiar theme, researchers have speculated on what types of observational data from distant planetary systems might indicate the presence of an alien civilization, in this ...

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created Apr 25, 2011 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (6) | comments 11

New lunar images and data available to the public

The public can follow along with NASA on its journey of lunar discovery. On March 15, the publicly accessible Planetary Data System will release data sets from the seven instruments on board NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance ...

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created Mar 15, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast




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Exploring Mars in the Austrian Alps

In the largest ice caves on Earth, spacesuits and remote-controlled planetary rovers were for the first time tested in a five-day odyssey in the Alps designed to mimic potential future missions on Mars.

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created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Human hands leave prominent ecological footprints

Early human activity has left a greater footprint on today's ecosystem than previously thought, say researchers working at the University of Pittsburgh and in the multidisciplinary Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network, ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Cassini reveals details about charged 'nanograins' near Enceladus

(Phys.org) -- It was a call that Rice University physicist Tom Hill had waited more than 20 years to receive. It traveled almost a billion miles to reach him. And the message — once it arrived from NASA’s ...

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created May 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Venus Express unearths new clues to the planet's geological history

(Phys.org) -- ESA's Venus Express has been used to study the geology in a region near Venus' equator. Using near-infrared observations collected by the Venus Monitoring Camera (VMC), scientists have found ...

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created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Geological record shows air up there came from below

(Phys.org) -- The influence of the ground beneath us on the air around us could be greater than scientists had previously thought, according to new research that links the long-ago proliferation of oxygen ...

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created May 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Newfound exoplanet may turn to dust

Researchers at MIT, NASA and elsewhere have detected a possible planet, some 1,500 light years away, that appears to be evaporating under the blistering heat of its parent star. The scientists infer that a ...

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created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

The most profitable asteroid is...

With the recent announcement of the asteroid mining company, Planetary Resources, some of the most-asked questions about this enticing but complex endeavor include, what asteroids do we mine? Which are the ...

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created May 17, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 60

Celestial tapestry is born of uncertain parentage

(Phys.org) -- A new Legacy Image from the Gemini Observatory reveals the remarkable complexity of the planetary nebula Sharpless 2-71 (Sh 2-71). Embroiled in a bit of controversy over its “birth parents” ...

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created May 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Seeking signs of life at the glacier's edge

Microbes living at the edges of Arctic ice sheets could help researchers pinpoint evidence for similar microorganisms that could have evolved on Mars, the Jovian moon Europa, or Saturn's moon Enceladus.

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created May 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers reveal unseen planet by its gravity

More than a 150 years ago, before Neptune was ever sighted in the night sky, French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier predicted the planet's existence based on small deviations in the motion of Uranus. In a ...

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created May 10, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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