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Who Wants To Go Ice Skating Across This Wintry Martian Crater?
Korolev crater on Mars boasts an ice rink measuring over 80km wide—and it’s one of the most spectacular surface features on the Red Planet, as the latest image from the Mars Express spacecraft reveals.
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Launching Today: A Mission To The Best Planet (Mercury)
Mercury is the best planet, in my humble but well-researched opinion. Sure, it may be small, rocky, and lacking an atmosphere, but how it came to look the way it does absolutely baffles scientists. It might even have water and carbon hidden away from the beginning of the Solar System. Today, scientists from the European…
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Forgotten Data From 1996 Sheds New Light On Jupiter’s Mysterious Moon Ganymede
Twenty-two years ago, the Galileo spacecraft made its first flyby of Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon. Scientists with NASA have taken a new look at the data collected during that historic encounter, providing tantalising new details about this strange celestial object, its unique magnetic shield, and its unusually bright auroras.
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NASA And ESA Are Getting Serious About Bringing Martian Soil To Earth
Yesterday, officials with NASA and the European Space Agency signed a statement of intent to explore the various ways in which Martian soil samples can be collected and delivered back to Earth. Sounds great, but a complex project of this nature won’t be easy, as it would involve the first-ever rocket launch from the surface of…