On Dec. 14, 1962, NASA's Mariner 2 spacecraft sailed close to the shrouded planet Venus, marking the first time any spacecraft had ever successfully made a close-up study of another planet. It flew by Venus as planned at ...
Space Exploration
Dec 17, 2012
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Scientists at the University of Leeds are looking to discover how dust particles in the solar system interact with the Earth's atmosphere.
Earth Sciences
May 18, 2012
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Although we think of space as being empty, there is more out there than meets the eye – dust, for example, is everywhere. If all the material between the Sun and Jupiter were compressed together it would form a moon ...
Space Exploration
Mar 30, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Transient Events, a new iPhone application for amateur and professional astronomers and anyone interested in the universe, highlights cosmic events such as exploding supernovae, comets traveling through the ...
Space Exploration
Apr 15, 2010
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