News tagged with red dust
Astronomers spot cosmic dust fountain
(PhysOrg.com) -- Space dust annoys astronomers just as much as the household variety when it interferes with their observations of distant stars. And yet space dust also poses one of the great mysteries of ...
Feb 05, 2009 |
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It's a grind to make Mars red
(PhysOrg.com) -- The widespread idea that Mars is red due to rocks being rusted by the water that once flooded the red planet may be wrong. Recent laboratory studies show that the red dust may be formed by ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 18, 2009 |
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Image: Opportunity's heat shield
This image from 2005 shows the remains of the heat shield from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, broken into two key pieces, the main piece on the left side and a broken-off flank piece near the middle ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 17, 2011 |
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WISE presents a cosmic wreath
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just in time for the holidays, astronomers have come across a new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, that some say resembles a wreath. You might even think of ...
Dec 23, 2011 |
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Mars: Wayward Dust Devil Caught in the Act
(PhysOrg.com) -- The HiRISE camera photographed a dust devil roaming the Martian plains far from the normal occurrence of such weather phenomena.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 26, 2010 |
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Mars Express zeroes in on erosion features
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mars Express has uncovered geological evidence suggesting that some depositional process, revealed by erosion, has been at work on large scales in the equatorial regions of the planet. If ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 19, 2009 |
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Countering contamination for Mars spacesuits
To search for life on Mars, future astronauts would naturally want to step outside their living habitat for a walk. But the spacesuits keeping them alive might also carry Earth microbes or ingredients of life ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 16, 2011 |
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'Pacman' nebula gets some teeth
(PhysOrg.com) -- To visible-light telescopes, this star-forming cloud appears to be chomping through the cosmos, earning it the nickname the "Pacman" nebula, like the famous Pac-Man video game that debuted ...
Oct 27, 2011 |
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Inhaling 'Red Mud Disaster' dust may not be as harmful to health as feared
Scientists in Hungary are reporting that the potential health effects of last October's Red Mud Disaster, one of the worst environmental accidents in Europe, may be less dangerous than previously feared. Their ...
Feb 16, 2011 |
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