October 1, 2012
Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter The southern portion of Mercury’s Vivaldi basin and outlying rugged terrain Named for the 17th-century Venetian composer, the southern half of Mercury’s Vivaldi basin is seen in this image acquired on August 26 by NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft. The 213-km (132-mile) -wide [...]
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May 16, 2012
Researchers at the University of Maryland have discovered a way to identify and track sulfuric compounds in Earth’s marine environment, opening a path to either refute or support a decades-old hypothesis that our planet can be compared to a singular, self-regulating, living organism — a.k.a. the Gaia theory. Remove this ad
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