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The Martian Aurora
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
06/12/05 |
| Aurorae are spectacular displays often seen at the highest latitudes on Earth. On our planet, as well as on the giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, they lie at the foot of the planetary magnetic field lines near the Poles, and are produced by charged particles-electrons, protons or ions-precipitating along these lines. |
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Messenger to Moon, Say Cheese
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
05/31/05 |
| NASA's Mercury-bound MESSENGER spacecraft - less than three months from an Earth flyby that will slingshot it toward the inner solar system - successfully tested its main camera by snapping distant approach shots of Earth and the Moon. |
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Bombarded by Mysteries
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
05/25/05 |
| People of every culture have been fascinated by the dark "spots" on the Moon, which seem to compose the figure of a rabbit, frogs or the face of a clown. With Apollo missions, scientists found these features are huge impact basins that were flooded with now-solidified lava. |
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Martian Satellites Greet Each Other
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
05/22/05 |
| New photographs from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft are the first pictures ever taken of a spacecraft orbiting a foreign planet by another spacecraft orbiting that planet. |
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Beam Me to Mars
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
05/08/05 |
| Are we there yet? Everyone has faced this exasperating question from impatient companions on a long road trip. Imagine if the trip lasted six months. One way. It takes conventional rockets about six months just to get to Mars. Could a technology send astronauts racing to Mars up to six times faster? |
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Moonbase Divining for Lunar Water?
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
05/07/05 |
| The next time you look at the Moon, pause for a moment and let this thought sink in: People have actually walked on the Moon, and right now the wheels are in motion to send people there again. Whether a moonbase will turn out to be feasible hinges largely on the question of water. |
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Rosetta Eyes Earth
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
05/04/05 |
| ESA's comet chaser mission Rosetta took these infrared and visible images of Earth and the Moon, during the Earth fly-by of early March 2005 while on its way to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. |
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The Eternal Lunar Day
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
04/17/05 |
| An illuminated part of a lunar crater rim may be very close to the Moon's North pole and is a candidate for a peak of eternal sunlight. Such places could be key locations for future lunar outposts. |
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Pushing the Planetary Envelope
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
03/23/05 |
| In Part Five in the series on stellar and terrestrial evolution, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Director of the Hayden Planetarium and host of the PBS/NOVA Series "Origins", discusses his role in the President's Commission on the Moon, Mars and Beyond, and explains what drives us to seek a future in space. |
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Blue Ribbon Buoyancy
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
03/23/05 |
| In Part Four in the series on stellar and terrestrial evolution, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Director of the Hayden Planetarium and host of the PBS/NOVA Series "Origins", discusses his role in the President's Commission on the Moon, Mars and Beyond, and the surprising things he learned from testimony presented to the commission. |
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