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NASA Scientists Soar Over a Mini Ice Cap

April 29, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter It’s quite a long way from Mars, but I can’t help but be reminded of the Red Planet’s ice-covered north pole when looking at this photo taken by Michael Studinger earlier this month, during a recent IceBridge survey flight over Greenland. [...]

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Saturn to Shed its Spooky Spokes for Summer

March 12, 2013

As Saturn steadily moves along its 29.7-year-long orbit toward summertime in its northern hemisphere NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is along for the ride, giving astronomers a front-row seat to seasonal changes taking place on the ringed planet. One of these fluctuations is the anticipated disappearance of the “spokes” found in the rings, a few of which [...]

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Dry Ice Drives Dramatic Changes on Mars

January 25, 2013

Mars may not be tectonically active but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing happening on the Red Planet’s surface. This video from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows the dramatic seasonal changes that take place in Mars’ polar regions when the frozen carbon dioxide — called “dry ice”  – coating the basalt sand dunes begins to thaw [...]

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Is This Icy “Mega” Meteorite Really From Outer Space?

December 26, 2012

Earlier today, Euronews reported an icy “mega meteorite” fall in a farmer’s field in the Hrira region of Morocco. The farmer found the chunk of supposed space ice and put it in his freezer for later investigation by scientists, who apparently confirmed that it is in fact from space. But… really? Remove this ad

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Lighting Up Mercury’s Shadowy North Pole

November 27, 2012

Part of a stereographic projection of Mercury’s north pole Talk about northern exposure! This is a section of a much larger image, released today by the MESSENGER team, showing the heavily-cratered north pole of Mercury as seen by the MESSENGER spacecraft’s Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) instrument. See the full-size image below: Remove this ad

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