Planet
WALL-E and NASA are looking for Right Name for new Mars Rover
By: William Atkins
NASA has announced that it is looking for a name to call its new Mars rover, which should be launched toward Mars in 2009. The Walt Disney robot WALL-E is teaming up with NASA in this naming contest for U.S. students ranging in ages from five to 18 years old.
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By: William Atkins
NASA has announced that it is looking for a name to call its new Mars rover, which should be launched toward Mars in 2009. The Walt Disney robot WALL-E is teaming up with NASA in this naming contest for U.S. students ranging in ages from five to 18 years old.
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Astronomical first: Hubble sees an exosolar planet!
By: Stephen Withers
For the first time, astronomers have directly observed a planet orbiting a star other than our own Sun. The historic image was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.
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By: Stephen Withers
For the first time, astronomers have directly observed a planet orbiting a star other than our own Sun. The historic image was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.
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NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander may not arise again
By: William Atkins
The Martian winter is producing bitter cold and giant dust storms are cutting sunlight to its solar arrays. The deadly combination may be too much for the now-silent NASA Phoenix lander, which has extended its mission on the planet for two months longer than planned.
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By: William Atkins
The Martian winter is producing bitter cold and giant dust storms are cutting sunlight to its solar arrays. The deadly combination may be too much for the now-silent NASA Phoenix lander, which has extended its mission on the planet for two months longer than planned.
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It’s snowing on Mars
By: William Atkins
The NASA Phoenix Mars Lander has identified snow falling from Martian clouds. A Phoenix scientist says, “Nothing like this view has ever been seen on Mars.”
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By: William Atkins
The NASA Phoenix Mars Lander has identified snow falling from Martian clouds. A Phoenix scientist says, “Nothing like this view has ever been seen on Mars.”
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NASA rover Opportunity moving to new digs on Mars
By: William Atkins
NASA announced on September 22, 2008, that its Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is moving to a larger home on the planet Mars—a crater that is over twenty times larger than its previous home inside Victoria Crater.
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By: William Atkins
NASA announced on September 22, 2008, that its Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is moving to a larger home on the planet Mars—a crater that is over twenty times larger than its previous home inside Victoria Crater.
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Astronomers (probably) take 1st direct pix of planet orbiting star
By: William Atkins
Canadian astronomers have discovered and photographed for the first time what they think is a normal sized exosolar planet (exoplanet) orbiting a star other than the Sun. However, if true it could change our theories of planet formation.
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By: William Atkins
Canadian astronomers have discovered and photographed for the first time what they think is a normal sized exosolar planet (exoplanet) orbiting a star other than the Sun. However, if true it could change our theories of planet formation.
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NASA to go to Mars with MAVEN robotic spacecraft
By: William Atkins
NASA announced on September 15, 2008, that it will send the unmanned Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft to find out why the planet lost most of its atmosphere billions of years ago.
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By: William Atkins
NASA announced on September 15, 2008, that it will send the unmanned Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft to find out why the planet lost most of its atmosphere billions of years ago.
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Mercury, Venus, and Mars team up in southwestern sky
By: William Atkins
In September 2008, the three planets of Mercury, Venus, and Mars will be visible low in the southwestern sky just after sunset. Each will be viewable, especially with the use of binoculars.
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By: William Atkins
In September 2008, the three planets of Mercury, Venus, and Mars will be visible low in the southwestern sky just after sunset. Each will be viewable, especially with the use of binoculars.
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NASA’s Opportunity takes to the open road on Mars
By: William Atkins
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover (MER) “Opportunity” is rolling out of Victoria Crater after a successful year-long investigation of the Martian hole. It will now target the cobbles found on the Martian plain Meridiani Planum.
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By: William Atkins
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover (MER) “Opportunity” is rolling out of Victoria Crater after a successful year-long investigation of the Martian hole. It will now target the cobbles found on the Martian plain Meridiani Planum.
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Smallest ever space image taken by Phoenix Mars Lander
By: William Atkins
NASA announced on August 15, 2008 that its Phoenix Mars Lander has imaged a single particle of Martian dust using its atomic force microscope at a “… higher magnification than anything ever seen from another world.”
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By: William Atkins
NASA announced on August 15, 2008 that its Phoenix Mars Lander has imaged a single particle of Martian dust using its atomic force microscope at a “… higher magnification than anything ever seen from another world.”
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Was Venus surrogate mother for Earth?
By: William Atkins
Venus and Earth have often been called “sister” planets because of their similarities, but a new British research study finds that mother Venus may have sent microorganisms to daughter Earth via father Sun and created life on Earth.
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By: William Atkins
Venus and Earth have often been called “sister” planets because of their similarities, but a new British research study finds that mother Venus may have sent microorganisms to daughter Earth via father Sun and created life on Earth.
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Welcome to the solar system! Dwarf planet and plutoid Makemake!
By: William Atkins
The International Astronomical Union recently recognized Makemake as a dwarf planet and classified it as a plutoid. Makemake, the celestial body, was named after Makemake, the bird-man god of Easter Island.
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By: William Atkins
The International Astronomical Union recently recognized Makemake as a dwarf planet and classified it as a plutoid. Makemake, the celestial body, was named after Makemake, the bird-man god of Easter Island.
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Cassini finds evidence of underground ocean on Enceladus
By: William Atkins
The NASA spacecraft Cassini, while on its travels around the planet Saturn, has found striking evidence that the tiny Saturnian moon of Enceladus may have a vast ocean underneath its cold, icy surface.
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By: William Atkins
The NASA spacecraft Cassini, while on its travels around the planet Saturn, has found striking evidence that the tiny Saturnian moon of Enceladus may have a vast ocean underneath its cold, icy surface.
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Our MESSENGER to Mercury sends home important data
By: William Atkins
The NASA spacecraft MESSENGER flew by Mercury on January 14, 2008. It reported back to scientists on Earth some information they did not know about its volcanic history and the source of its magnetic field.
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By: William Atkins
The NASA spacecraft MESSENGER flew by Mercury on January 14, 2008. It reported back to scientists on Earth some information they did not know about its volcanic history and the source of its magnetic field.
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Mars, Saturn, Regulus put on evening show in July skies
By: William Atkins
During the first ten days of July 2008, the two planets Mars and Saturn and the bright star Regulus will be seen low in the western sky after dusk and into the evening, less than one-third the way up from the horizon.
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By: William Atkins
During the first ten days of July 2008, the two planets Mars and Saturn and the bright star Regulus will be seen low in the western sky after dusk and into the evening, less than one-third the way up from the horizon.
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HARPS sees HD 40307 planets: We have ability to find earth-type exoplanets
By: William Atkins
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By: William Atkins
Astrophysicists have found, for the very first time, a trio of super-earth planets around a sun-like star.
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Microscope studies Mars soil up close and personal
By: William Atkins
The Phoenix Mars Lander is equipped with an Optical Microscope that is showing NASA scientists detailed images of soil particles, with sizes down to one-tenth the diameter of a human hair. Let's be clear, though, no human hairs have been found on Mars.
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By: William Atkins
The Phoenix Mars Lander is equipped with an Optical Microscope that is showing NASA scientists detailed images of soil particles, with sizes down to one-tenth the diameter of a human hair. Let's be clear, though, no human hairs have been found on Mars.
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Pluto gets recognition it deserves, well, sorta
By: William Atkins
On Wednesday, June 11, 2008, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) announced that the former planet called Pluto will now be classified as a (drum roll, please): Plutoid.
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By: William Atkins
On Wednesday, June 11, 2008, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) announced that the former planet called Pluto will now be classified as a (drum roll, please): Plutoid.
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