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Searching In features, blog entries, column entries & news items, Under the topic Planetary Science
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NASA's two most recent missions to Mars failed because they were underfunded, managed by inexperienced people, and insufficiently tested, according to a report released March 28. (p. 215)Published: April 1st, 2000; Vol.157 #14Found in: Planetary Science
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A new gravity map of Mars has revealed a network of buried channels that billions of years ago may have been on the surface and helped carry water to fill an ancient ocean. (p. 206)Published: March 25th, 2000; Vol.157 #13Found in: Planetary Science -
A new study suggests that the evolutionary burst on Earth some 540 million years ago occurred around the time that cosmic debris began pummeling our planet at an increasing rate. (p. 165)Published: March 11th, 2000; Vol.157 #11Found in: Planetary Science -
Home / News / September 7th, 2002; Vol.162 #10 / Pluto and the Occult: Rare events illuminate Pluto's atmosphereTwice in the past month, astronomers were given a rare opportunity to peer through the tenuous atmosphere of Pluto. (p. 148)Published: September 7th, 2002; Vol.162 #10Found in: Planetary Science -
Home / News / August 31st, 2002; Vol.162 #9 / Planetary Beginnings: Data reveal Earth's quick gestationTwo new studies confirm that Earth's core formed in a hurryduring the first 30 million years after the solar system's birth. (p. 131)Published: August 31st, 2002; Vol.162 #9Found in: Planetary Science -
Astronomers have taken what appears to be the sharpest image of the moon ever recorded from Earth. (p. 141)Published: August 31st, 2002; Vol.162 #9Found in: Planetary Science -
Home / News / August 24th, 2002; Vol.162 #8 / Lost in Space: Comet mission appears to have broken apartA spacecraft that had just begun its journey to two comets has fallen silent and may have broken apart. (p. 116)Published: August 24th, 2002; Vol.162 #8Found in: Planetary Science -
On Valentine's Day, the NEAR spacecraft cozied up to the asteroid 433 Eros, becoming the first craft to orbit a tiny body. (p. 118)Published: February 19th, 2000; Vol.157 #8Found in: Planetary Science
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New evidence supports the notion that Jupiter's moon Europa contains an ocean beneath its icy surface, and a planetary scientist has proposed a novel way that Europa could be getting the energy required to sustain life within that ocean. (p. 70)Published: January 29th, 2000; Vol.157 #5Found in: Planetary Science
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Planetary scientists have for the first time precisely dated a collision that smashed an asteroid into fragments. (p. 30)Published: July 13th, 2002; Vol.162 #2Found in: Planetary Science
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Sensors on board the Mars Odyssey spacecraft have spied strong signs of ice buried near both poles of the Red Planet, exactly the regions where scientists previously had said that such frozen water deposits could exist. (p. 355)Published: June 8th, 2002; Vol.161 #23Found in: Planetary Science -
About one out of every eight asteroids traveling near Earth has a rocky companion. (p. 317)Published: May 18th, 2002; Vol.161 #20Found in: Planetary Science
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Flight controllers have revived an instrument on the Mars Odyssey spacecraft that measures the amount of radiation bombarding the Martian surface. (p. 205)Published: March 30th, 2002; Vol.161 #13Found in: Planetary Science
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Simultaneous measurements by two spacecraft have probed in greater detail than ever before Jupiters magnetosphere, the invisible bubble of charged particles that surrounds the giant planet. (p. 174)Published: March 16th, 2002; Vol.161 #11Found in: Planetary Science
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Home / News / March 9th, 2002; Vol.161 #10 / Odyssey's First Look: Craft spies signs of ice at the Martian south poleAstronomers have for the first time found evidence of large amounts of frozen water in the subsurface of Mars. (p. 149)Published: March 9th, 2002; Vol.161 #10Found in: Planetary Science
