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Science Images of the Week

August 8, 2012

Curiosity Adjusts to Life on Mars

August 7, 2012

On its first full solar day on Mars, the Curiosity rover is under going a month-long series of health checks before getting down to its mission of exploring the chemistry of Mars. Curiosity isn’t expected to drill its first drill hole in a Mars rock for about another month or two, according to Rob Manning, […]

Science Images of the Week

August 3, 2012

 

Scientists Hope Rover Will Discover If Life Exists on Mars

August 1, 2012

Excitement is building at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.  A little over eight months after its November  2011 launch, NASA’s newest and most advanced Mars rover  is set to land on the red planet on Monday, Aug. 6. The Curiosity rover carries the most sophisticated payload of scientific equipment  ever used on Mars’ […]

NASA Checks Out Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

May 25, 2012

First, the good news. There are fewer asteroids near Earth than previously estimated.  Now the bad news. A new NASA survey also finds there may be more than twice as many aligned with Earth’s orbit than thought, which could increase the odds of an asteroid coming close enough to us to cause concern. The findings […]

Coils of Lava Found on Mars

April 27, 2012

An Arizona State University graduate student has discovered unique spiral patterns in solidified lava flows on the surface of Mars. In a paper published in Science, Andrew Ryan describes the snail-like patterns as ranging in size from about one meter to 30 meters across. While lava flows such as these have been found on the […]

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