News tagged with planets moons
Will Kepler find habitable moons?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the launch of the NASA Kepler Mission earlier this year, astronomers have been keenly awaiting the first detection of an Earth-like planet around another star. Now, in an echo of science ...
Sep 03, 2009 |
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Planet Smash-Up Sends Vaporized Rock, Hot Lava Flying (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found evidence of a high-speed collision between two burgeoning planets around a young star.
Aug 10, 2009 |
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Surface features on Titan form like Earth's, but with a frigid twist
Saturn's haze-enshrouded moon Titan turns out to have much in common with Earth in the way that weather and geology shape its terrain, according to two pieces of research to be presented at the XXVII General ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 06, 2009 |
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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 ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 03, 2009 |
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Galileo's notebooks may reveal secrets of new planet
Galileo knew he had discovered a new planet in 1613, 234 years before its official discovery date, according to a new theory by a University of Melbourne physicist.
Jul 09, 2009 |
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NASA Details Plans for Lunar Exploration Robotic Missions
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's return to the moon will get a boost in June with the launch of two satellites that will return a wealth of data about Earth's nearest neighbor. On Thursday, the agency outlined the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 22, 2009 |
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Four of Saturn's moons parade by their parent
On 24 February 2009, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured a photo sequence of four moons of Saturn passing in front of their parent planet. The moons, from far left to right, are the white icy moons ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 17, 2009 |
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NASA and ESA prioritize outer planet missions
At a meeting in Washington last week, NASA and ESA officials decided to first pursue a mission to study Jupiter and its four largest moons, and plan for another mission to visit Saturn's largest moon, Titan, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 18, 2009 |
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Half-baked asteroids have Earth-like crust
Asteroids are hunks of rock that orbit in the outer reaches of space, and scientists have generally assumed that their small size limited the types of rock that could form in their crusts. But two newly discovered ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 07, 2009 |
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