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If we are looking today on Mars we can notice that its atmosphere is absolutely transparently and very thin. We don't see any clouds of water vapor. Clouds that are found on the planet surface are made mainly from carbon dioxide and dust. The small...
After a series of alternate successes and failures, the Hayabusa probe was claimed to have collected samples from the Itokawa asteroid. It was the first probe ever to collect samples from an asteroid. I did not go wrong with the tense when I said...
Attention sky gazers and thrill seekers. Venus is reaching its peak brightness for 2005, and is casting its very best shadows right now. Try it yourself. Difficult, yes, but worth the effort! The shadows are very delicate. The slightest movement would...
Active volcanic plumes above the surface of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured unique views of the two moons, although the probe’s first close encounter with the large moon Rhea was somewhat eclipsed by a sidelong snapshot...
Astronauts will be back on the moon by 2018, and the NASA's Vision for Space Exploration is busy readying the mission. But, the NASA scientists are also worried that they'll have to deal with lots of moon-dust. Walking on the moon between 1969 and...
Life left its mark in the Martian rock layers. It may have had a tough time getting started in the ancient environment, examined by NASA's Opportunity rover. The challenges life may have faced in the harsh Martian environment, is revealed by the most...
Explore the Earth from space. Witness new feature and activities on the earth surface every 20 minutes. The venture seems thrilling. But, it’s not a ride on a satellite. It’s just a click away from you. Visit the website, ‘satellite.ehabich.info’ and...
Two international teams of astronomers observed with unprecedented detail the environment of two stars. Thanks to the newly installed AMBER instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer. The instrument combines the light from two or three...
Do you know what build the earth? Its quite obvious that it is made from the materials available – is it a conglomeration of materials scattered in the space? Black holes, young stars, new suns and planetary systems are guiding us with through several...
It’s a rare cooperative effort by U.S. and Latin American scientists -- an advance in the use of radio astronomy; a 17-story monster of a telescope is being assembled atop a 15,000-foot peak in Mexico. It can also be claimed as the most important...
At last the operation went without failure. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s space probe was successful. The Hayabusa spaceprobe has snatched samples from the asteroid Itokawa, according to JAXA. At 0707 Japanese time (2207 GMT Friday), the...
Space and astronomy is all about gazing. But, don’t pity the blinds anymore. They can ‘Touch the Sun’ with the tips of their fingers. Noreen Grice has come up with another tactile graphic book about space and astronomy. A NASA Braille Book, TOUCH THE...
Venus Express acquired its first remote-sensing data during its commissioning phase using Earth and the Moon as a reference. A recent check of the VIRTIS imaging spectrometer during the commissioning has allowed this. It was after the first ten days of...
Revealing the nature of the Sun's atmosphere, the links between its magnetic fields and coronal mass ejections, and even discovering more than 1,000 comets, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has spent 10 years of its operations. So, with...
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