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Ancient Impacts Stained Vesta with Carbon-Rich Material
Composite-color 3D image of Cornelia crater on Vesta (NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA)Ever since arriving at Vesta in July 2011, NASA's Dawn spacecraft has been capturing high-resolution images of...
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The Search For Life On Europa Could Center On Celestial Party-Crashers
The cool thing about space missions is long after they conclude, the data can yield the most interesting information. Here's an example: Jupiter's moon Europa may have a ripe spot for organic materials...
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Ancient Martian Life May Be Preserved in Glass
When large asteroids or comets strike the Earth -- as they have countless times throughout our planet's history -- the energy released in the event creates an enormous amount of heat, enough to briefly...
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Unusual Distributions of Organics Found in Titan’s Atmosphere
A new mystery of Titan has been uncovered by astronomers using their latest asset in the high altitude desert of Chile. Using the now fully deployed Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) telescope in...
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover detects Methane, Organics on Mars
On Tuesday, December 16, 2014, NASA scientists attending the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco announced the detection of organic compounds on Mars. The announcement represents...
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NASA Selects Mission Science Instruments Searching for Habitability of...
In a major move forward on a long dreamed of mission to investigate the habitability of the subsurface ocean of Jupiter’s mysterious moon Europa, top NASA officials announced today, Tuesday, May 26,...
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Curiosity Discovers Mars Rock Like None Before, Sets Drill Campaign
On the eve of the 3rd anniversary since her nail biting touchdown inside Gale Crater, NASA’s car sized Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover has discovered a new type of Martian rock that’s...
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