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 detail.
Space Exploration
Jun 21, 2011
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How do you study the topography of an asteroid millions of miles away? Map it with a robotic cartographer!
Space Exploration
Aug 11, 2016
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Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego will explore the earthquake rupture site of the Feb. 27 massive 8.8-magnitude Chilean earthquake, one of the largest earthquakes in recorded history.
Earth Sciences
Mar 18, 2010
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VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed an optical accessory that turns an ordinary camera phone into a high-resolution microscope. The device is accurate to one hundredth of a millimetre. Among those who will ...
Engineering
Feb 15, 2012
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This animated flyover of each of the four candidate sample collection sites on asteroid Bennu, selected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission, was produced using close-range data from the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter ...
Space Exploration
Aug 29, 2019
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The Western United States is losing its glaciers.
Earth Sciences
Sep 25, 2023
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(Phys.org) -- NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has successfully deployed its lengthy mast, giving it the ability to see the highest energy X-rays in our universe. The mission is one step closer to ...
Space Exploration
Jun 22, 2012
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Anyone who digs in the earth needs a geologic map, says State Geologist Stephen Mabee at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and now he and colleagues have finished a federal-state collaboration that began 81 years ago ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 27, 2019
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Geologist John Goodge looks for clues about Antarctica's past in the 2 percent of the continent that is not covered in ice!
Earth Sciences
Nov 1, 2011
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Scott W. Anderson and colleagues use repeat aerial LiDAR to quantify the erosional impact of the heavy rains that inundated the Colorado Front Range in September 2013. The five-day storm triggered more than 1,100 landslides ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 30, 2015
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