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New high res images from mars

Category: Mars

Mars Orbiter has captured thousands of images in high resolution from the surface of the Grumpy Reddish Planet. The picture you see here is a chain of pit craters. That must have been one helluva noisy event. Reminds me of the walls at the Entebe...

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New, Very Cool Image of Vic Crater, Mars

Category: Cosmos

Look closely at this picture of Victoria Crater on Mars. Clicking on the picture will give you a really big file, but a much better look. There are a number of things you can see in this view of Victoria that you could not...

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Mars Recon Orbiter Restarts Mission

Category: Mars

The mission was temporarily interrupted when the computer inexplicably rebooted. Perhaps they should have used Linux on the embedded Power PC hardware, rather than the proprietary system they did use. From a NASA press release: PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is examining Mars...

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Water on a sub-freezing Mars

Category: Mars

NASA researchers is now reporting in the May 21st issue of Nature that water could remain liquid at sub-freezing temperatures if made stable against freezing by containing dissolved minerals. From the abstract: Many features of the Martian landscape are thought to have been formed by...

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New Geo Paper from Mars Rover "Opportunity" Out Today

Category: Cosmos

The Mars rover Opportunity has explored Victoria crater, a ~750-meter eroded impact crater formed in sulfate-rich sedimentary rocks. Impact-related stratigraphy is preserved in the crater walls, and meteoritic debris is present near the crater rim. The size of hematite-rich concretions decreases up-section, documenting variation in...

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