News articles tagged with 'crater'
New NASA missions to investigate how Mars turned hostile
— 19 Nov 2011 15:46 | AstronomyMaybe because it appears as a speck of blood in the sky, the planet Mars was named after the Roman god of war. From the point of view of life as we know it, that's appropriate. The…
The scars of impacts on Mars
— 5 Mar 2011 13:24 | AstronomyESA's Mars Express has returned new images of an elongated impact crater in the southern hemisphere of Mars. Located just south of the Huygens basin, it could have been carved out by…
NASA's LRO creating unprecedented topographic map of moon
— 18 Dec 2010 14:45 | AstronomyNASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is allowing researchers to create the most precise and complete map to date of the moon's complex, heavily cratered landscape…
Scientists find evidence for widespread water ice on the moon
— 23 Oct 2010 17:53 | AstronomyScientists from NASA's Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment team have detected the widespread presence of water ice in large areas of the moon's south pole…
NASA-engineered collision spills new Moon secrets
— 23 Oct 2010 16:09 | AstronomyScientists led by Brown University are offering the first detailed explanation of the crater formed when a NASA rocket slammed into the Moon last fall and information about the composition…
Scientists report new insights into the moon's rich geologic complexity
— 17 Sep 2010 09:44 | AstronomyThe moon is more geologically complex than previously thought, scientists report Sept. 17 in two papers published in the journal Science…
NASA'S LRO exposes moon's complex, turbulent youth
— 17 Sep 2010 09:17 | AstronomyThe moon was bombarded by two distinct populations of asteroids or comets in its youth, and its surface is more complex than previously thought, according to new results from NASA's…
Rocky mounds and a plateau on Mars
— 28 Jun 2010 15:11 | AstronomyWhen Mars Express set sail for the crater named after Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, it found a windblown plateau and mysterious rocky mounds nearby. Stretching across 190…
Wet era on early Mars was global
— 26 Jun 2010 13:07 | AstronomyConditions favourable to life may once have existed all over Mars. Detailed studies of minerals found inside craters show that liquid water was widespread, not only in the southern…
Scientists conclude asteroid ended the age of dinosaurs
— 25 May 2010 16:33 | Geology and palaeontologyUniversity of Alaska Fairbanks scientist Michael Whalen is part of a team of distinguished scientists who recently compiled a wide swath of evidence striking a definitive blow in the…