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• New Images Suggest More Recent Lakes on Mars

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 657
  Image of a channel between putative lakes from the Context Camera (CTX) onboard NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). Modern Mars is frigid and dry, but new evidence suggests that in some locations on the equator there may have been lakes as recently as 3 billion years ago. Researchers from Imperial College ...
  16 hours ago

• Back-Burner Image: Saturn Clouds

  
  wanderingspace — Authority: 103
  Haven’t come across too much lately. When that happens, I like to post these images that have been sitting around collecting virtual dust. Cloud top formations on Saturn taken by Cassini in 2009.
  3 days ago

• HiRISE images for December 23, 2009

  
  Space Spin — Authority: 134
  The following new images taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft are now available: Dark Sand and Bright Bedrock in Terra Meridiani This HiRISE image shows dark sand covering bright bedrock in the Terra Meridiani region of Mars. Edge Along ...
  6 days ago

• ساخت اولین کشتی عمودی تاریخ آغاز شد !

  
  ?????? ???? ?????? — Authority: 167
  پروژه ساخت این کشتی عمودی که SeaOrbiter نام دارد را ژاک راژری معمار فرانسوی اجرا می‌کند. این کشتی قائم شبیه به یک ایستگاه اقیانوس شناسی شناور از جنس...
  1 week ago

• HiRISE images for December 16, 2009

  
  Space Spin — Authority: 134
  The following new images taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft are now available: New Impact Crater: Formed between Jan 2006 and May 2008 This impact crater is only about 5.5 meters (18 feet) across - tiny compared to the giant basins that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter resumes observations

  
  Space Spin — Authority: 134
  Researchers are receiving new science data from NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter after the spacecrafts six science instruments resumed observations. Observations had been suspended since a computer reset Aug. 26. During the time since then, engineers analyzed a series of previous computer resets by the spacecraft and ...
  2 weeks ago

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  Rhetoric & Rockets — Authority: 118
  Potpourri CXICleaning out the inbox and getting laundry done this morning...its an epic morning at Casa de Bart! Why not join in the fun?The Iranians claim to be behind a crash/hack of Twitter yesterday. Message: "You allow our people to tell the world what were doing to them, well crash your site." Nice.From Melissa: ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mars had complex hydrological past, reveals new evidence

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  Washington, December 17 (ANI): In a new research, a tam of scientists has reported new evidence for multiple, water-related geologic processes on Mars, thus indicating that the Red Planet had a complex hydrological past. Catherine Weitz, a senior scientist at the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute, and her ...
  2 weeks ago

• NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Resumes Observations

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 587
  Researchers are receiving new science data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter after the spacecraft’s six science instruments resumed observations today. Observations had been suspended since a computer reset Aug. 26. During the time since then, engineers analyzed a series of previous computer resets by the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lunar morphology in the Lake of Death

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 135
  Close up on southwestern Lacus Mortis and a 700 meter wide section of 104 km-long graben Rimae Burg near where it translates from the mare-filled "lake" into the highlands beyond its shore. The narrow angle camera on-board LRO swept up this familiar Near Side telescopic target early in the commissioning phase of its ...
  2 weeks ago

• Moon harbors coldest place in solar system

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• NASA finds coldest place on Moon

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Trough Deposits on Mars Point to Complex Hydrologic Past

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 587
  Catherine Weitz, a senior scientist at the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute, has reported new evidence for multiple, water-related geologic processes on Mars.She and her colleagues studied light-toned deposits (LTDs) within troughs of the Noctis Labyrinthus region in western Valles Marineris using data ...
  2 weeks ago

• HiRISE images for December 11, 2009

  
  Space Spin — Authority: 134
  The following new images taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft are now available: Faulting in Amazonis Planitia This HiRISE image is centered on a long "strike-slip" fault on the young plains in the Amazonis region of Mars. Light Layered ...
  3 weeks ago

• Boulders of Copernicus

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 135
  Only a portion of the central uplift within Copernicus. The image V-152-H1 was taken by Lunar Orbiter V August 16, 1967 from an altitude of 103 kilometers. The spacecraft was looking straight down as it snapped this series. Resolution is 2.2 m/pixel [NASA/JPL/LOIRP]. On Thursday, December 10, 2009, Keith Cowing and ...
  3 weeks ago

• LOIRP: Boulder Trails on the Moon

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 135
  An update to our post Wednesday from Keith Cowing and the Lunar Orbiter Image Restoration Project ( LOIRP ), demonstrating the tremendous progress that group has made creating new images of the Moon from restored 40 year old telemetry. " Keiths note : This image was taken on 21 November 1966 by Lunar Orbiter ...
  3 weeks ago

• Lunar Orbiters originals vs. LOIRP restorations

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 135
  Keith Cowing MoonViews.com (LOIRP) Keiths note : These images are taken from Lunar Orbiter II image LOII_092H1 Framelet 522. On the left is the highest resolution scanned version available online at LPI (or USGS). On the right is our partially processed version that we retrieved this morning. In addition to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter out of safe mode

  
  Space Spin — Authority: 134
  NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been taken out of the precautionary "safe mode" it had been in since August. Taking the spacecraft out of safe mode is the latest step in a series of commands that are being sent to the orbiter this week. Engineers plan to resume science operations once they conclude a check of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Out of Safe Mode

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 587
  PASADENA, Calif., (NASA) — NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter today has been taken out of the precautionary “safe mode” it had been in since August. Taking the spacecraft out of safe mode is the latest step in a series of commands that are being sent to the orbiter this week. Engineers plan to resume science ...
  3 weeks ago

• New restored detail from Lunar Orbiter II

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 135
  Seeing Boulders on the Moon - Though it might appear to be a LRO Narrow Angle Camera image taken no more than a day or two ago, the photograph above is more than forty years old. It was taken by Lunar Orbiter II and it shows detail of the southwestern Mare Tranquillitatis, close to the future landing site of Apollo ...
  4 weeks ago

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