Irene Antonenko
So You Want to Look at the Moon?
This Saturday September 22, 2012 marks the 3rd annual International Observe the Moon Night (InOMN), when people all over the…
Thin Skinned and Wrinkled, Mercury is Full of Surprises
[/caption] Until relatively recently, Mercury was one of the most poorly understood planets in the inner solar system. The MESSENGER…
Fears of Tornado Catastrophes Due to Global Warming Unfounded
[/caption] The 2012 tornado season got off to a rousing start. Between February 28th and March 3rd, two deadly storm…
A ‘Melted’ Moon Makes for Bad Future Landing Sites
[/caption] The miniature radio frequency (min-RF) radar instrument aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is revealing some interesting things about…
If the Moon Currently has Liquid Magma, Why isn’t it Erupting?
[/caption] Last year, scientists took another look at the seismic data collected by Apollo era experiments and discovered that the…
Lunar Crater Reveals Many Secrets, Including a Not-So-Young Age
[/caption] The Moon is covered with craters of various shapes and sizes, and in various states of preservation. Scientists have…
New Insights into the Moon’s Mysterious Magnetic Field
Ever since the Apollo era, scientist have known that the Moon had some kind of magnetic field in the past,…
Large Amounts of Water Ice Found Underground on Mars
[/caption] Many models predict that water ice shouldn't be stable on Mars today, anywhere beyond the poles, no matter how…
A Wrinkled Moon
[/caption] Wrinkle ridges have been seen on the surface of the Moon for over a century. Studies of these interesting…
New Research Casts Doubt on the Late Heavy Bombardment
[/caption] Was the early solar system bombarded with lots of big impacts? This is a question that has puzzled scientists…