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• Fresh Copernican Crater on the Moon

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 591
  A key part of the LROC science investigation is the imaging and analysis of fresh, Copernican-aged craters (craters younger than 1.1 billion years), like this small (6-km diameter) example at the edge of Oceanus Procellarum, west of Balboa crater.The LROC team has seen a variety of landforms related to these important ...
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• Bright Copernican Age crater

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 437
  Subset of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter NAC image M112162602L showing landslides covering impact melt on the floor (see below) of a fresh unnamed Copernican-Age crater beyond the western edge of Oceanus Procellarum and Balboa. Image width 220 meters (0.55 m/p) [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Samuel Lawrence ...
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• Moon harbors coldest place in solar system

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  London, December 17 (ANI): NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has used its Diviner instrument to find the coldest place in the solar system at the Moon, where night-time surface temperatures can dip as low as minus 249 degree Celsius.According to a report by BBC News, the Diviner instrument probed the insides of ...
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• NASA finds coldest place on Moon

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  London, December 17 (ANI): NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has used its Diviner instrument to find the coldest place on the Moon, where night-time surface temperatures can dip as low as minus 249 degree Celsius.According to a report by BBC News, the Diviner instrument probed the insides of permanently shadowed ...
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• Young Giordano Bruno

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 437
  Frozen impact melt flows on the ejecta blanket of the young impact crater Giordano Bruno (22 km diameter). The image is about 600 m across and the flows are about 50-100 m wide (NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University). Mark Robinson LROC News System In many cases LROC has seen frozen flows of impact melt inside ...
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• Sovereign Government Debt Defaults Come Full Circle

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Sovereign Government Debt Defaults Come Full Circle Economics / Global Debt Crisis Dec 15, 2009 - 10:58 AM By: Jim_Willie_CB The continuation of the bank dominoes took 14 months, but it occurred. The initial destructive impact craters were carved in the United States and England. To be sure, major damage was done to ...
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• Scientists reveal new method of detecting past comet strikes upon Earth

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Washington, December 14 (ANI): An investigation by scientists at the University of Kansas (KU) has revealed a promising new method of detecting past comet strikes upon Earth and gauging their frequency.“Comet impacts might be much more frequent than we expect,” said Adrian Melott, professor of physics and ...
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• doublespeak chewing gum in perpetual collision warning

  
  hypoetics — Authority: 112
  the iludium Q explosive space modulator manifests its arrival in norway as the just war prize speech is panned between messier craters in stereo . "there is a cure for the big C ," announced a hard-working teleprompter whilst chewing exploding gum : "but we cannot find a cure for the biocentric universe ...
  2 weeks ago

• Yellowstone hotspot’s giant magma plume slowly eats its way northeast

  
  Ralph Maughan's Wildlife News — Authority: 481
  Scientists confirm 500-mile finger of molten rock under Yellowstone- Park’s giant magma plume eating up mountains. By Cory Hatch. Jackson Hole Daily . Actually the hot spot is probably stationary. The apparent surface movement is due to the North American plate drifting to the southwest over the spot. The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Skywatch Friday

  
  A Walk Through Auckland — Authority: 127
  Pigeon Mountain (Ohuiarangi in Maori), in Halfmoon Bay is an old pa site. This volcano was originally larger but 2 of its craters have been quarried away. This is another photo that was used without permission on the Manukau Council website (See my previous post). Im happy to report that the photos have finally ...
  4 weeks ago

• Mars may have once hosted a body of water the size of Lake Michigan

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Washington, November 26 (ANI): Scientists have found a telltale “bathtub ring” of minerals inside an ancient Martian impact crater, which has led them to suggest that Mars may have once hosted a body of water roughly the size of Lake Michigan.According to a report in National Geographic News, the find means that ...
  4 weeks ago

• Craters on the dark side of the moon

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 591
  When people envision a “moonscape” it probably looks something like this – craters, craters everywhere.There are two types of impact craters on the Moon: primary and secondary. Primary craters form as the result of an asteroid or comet (or spacecraft) impacting the Moon. Secondary impact craters formed from the ...
  4 weeks ago

• How to be a planetary scientist–and a Martian too. For free.

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 145
  Want to live on Mars and even study it as a scientist? Then move to this amazing new Web site Drawing on observations from the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Mars missions, the “Be a Martian” Web site is designed to help the public to participate as citizen scientists to improve Martian ...
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• Cluster of farside secondary craters

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 437
  Cluster of secondary craters help geologists determine the relative ages of features, even when they are separated by great distances. Image width = 630 meters. From an uncalibrated Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LROC) Narrow Angle Camera frame showing the floor of a small 14 kilometer diameter crater on the lunar ...
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• Central Peak of Rutherfurd

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 437
  Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) view of boulders on the floor of Rutherfurd (349.9°E, 60.9°S), about to disappear into the shadows of dusk. (Width = ~204 meters; Orbit 1242, Oct. 4, 2009, 1426 UT) [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Samuel Lawrence LROC News System ...
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