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Teen project one-ups NASA, finds hole in Mars caveWashington (AFP) June 23, 2010 A teen school project on Mars uncovered a surprise - what appears to be a hole in the roof of a cave on the red planet, researchers said Wednesday. The 16 students in a 7th grade science class at Evergreen Middle School in Cottonwood, California, chose to study lava tubes, a common volcanic feature on Earth and Mars as their class project sponsored by Arizona State University's Mars Education Program. The students developed a research project focused on finding the most common locations of lava ... read more |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 09, 2010With the passing of the winter solstice and improving power, Opportunity continues to drive towards Endeavour crater. On Sol 2254 (May 27, 2010), the rover drove about 26 meters (85 feet) to the south/south east. Opportunity drove again on Sol 2256 (May 29, 2010), for about 25 meters (82 feet). But on Sol 2257 (May 30, 2010), a fault occurred with the pancam mast assembly (PMA) that suppor ... more  
Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Jun 08, 2010The Earth and Moon were created as the result of a giant collision between two planets the size of Mars and Venus. Until now it was thought to have happened when the solar system was 30 million years old or approx. 4,537 million years ago. But new research from the Niels Bohr Institute shows that the Earth and Moon must have formed much later - perhaps up to 150 million years after the for ... more 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2010Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2010 A catalogue of places on Earth where one can find Mars-like conditions might include Antarctica's Dry Valleys, Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic, the hyper-acidic Rio Tinto in Spain, and Chile's bone-dry Atacama Desert. But it probably wouldn't include Brooklyn. And yet it's in Brooklyn where, in an otherwise unexceptional warehouse, Honeybee Robotics ... more |
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ASU Instrument Helps Identify Rare Rock On MarsTempe AZ (SPX) Jun 04, 2010 It's amazing what cleaning your glasses can reveal. A mineral-scouting instrument developed at ASU's Mars Space Flight Facility has found an outcrop of rock rich in carbonate minerals in the Columbia Hills of Gusev Crater on Mars, according to a report published online June 3 in the journal Science. The instrument is onboard NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. What makes the discovery unusual is that Spirit visited the outcrop, dubbed Comanche, back in December 2005. Yet the data pointing to the ... read more |
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