 Ice Cold Sunrise on Mars 7 hours ago | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- From the location of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, above the Martian arctic circle, the sun does not set during the peak of the Martian summer. | |
 Yellowstone's ancient supervolcano: Only lukewarm? 7 hours ago | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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The geysers of Yellowstone National Park owe their eistence to the "Yellowstone hotspot"--a region of molten rock buried deep beneath Yellowstone, geologists have found. But how hot is this "hotspot," and ... | |
 Why is Greenland covered in ice? 10 hours ago | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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There have been many reports in the media about the effects of global warming on the Greenland ice-sheet, but there is still great uncertainty as to why there is an ice-sheet there at all. | |
 Scientists discover minimum mass for galaxies 10 hours ago | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- By analyzing light from small, faint galaxies that orbit the Milky Way, UC Irvine scientists believe they have discovered the minimum mass for galaxies in the universe – 10 million times the ... | |
 A clash of clusters provides another clue to dark matter 12 hours ago | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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New Hubble and Chandra observations of the cluster known as MACSJ0025.4-1222 indicate that a titanic collision has separated dark from ordinary matter. This provides independent confirmation of a similar effect ... | |
Space Shuttle Atlantis To Move To Launch Pad Saturday August 26, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to roll out to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Saturday, Aug. 30. Atlantis is targeted to lift off Oct. 8 to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. | |
 Mars Rover Opportunity Climbing out of Victoria Crater August 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Exploration rover Opportunity is heading back out to the Red Planet's surrounding plains nearly a year after descending into a large Martian crater to examine exposed ancient rock ... | |
 GLAST Observatory reveals entire gamma-ray sky August 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's newest space telescope is giving scientists their best look yet at the highest-energy gamma ray bursts generated by violent events in space. For Toby Burnett, a University of Washington ... | |
Protection zones in the wrong place to prevent coral reef collapse August 26, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Conservation zones are in the wrong place to protect vulnerable coral reefs from the effects of global warming, an international team of scientists warned today. | |
 Phoenix Mars Lander Digs Deeper as Third Month Nears End August 26, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The next sample of Martian soil being grabbed for analysis is coming from a trench about three times deeper than any other trench NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has dug. | |
 Alpine lakes beginning to show effects of climate change August 26, 2008 | User rating: 1.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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A recent study forecasts that increased climatic variability poses serious consequence for both the biodiversity and ecosystem function of high-elevation lakes. | |
New analysis of earthquake zone raises questions August 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Oregon State University scientists have completed a new analysis of an earthquake fault line that extends some 200 miles off the southern and central Oregon coast that they say is more active than the San Andreas Fault in ... | |
 How Do Galaxies Grow? August 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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How do galaxies form? The most widely accepted answer to this fundamental question is the model of 'hierarchical formation', a step-wise process in which small galaxies merge to build larger ones. One can ... | |
 Rosetta spacecraft meets asteroid Steins August 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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ESA's Rosetta spacecraft will make a historic encounter with asteroid (2867) Steins on 5 September 2008. | |
 XMM-Newton's massive discovery August 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 44 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's orbiting X-ray observatory XMM-Newton has discovered the most massive cluster of galaxies seen in the distant Universe until now. The galaxy cluster is so big that there can only be ... | |
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