Phoenix Lander Prepares For Microscopy, Wet Chemistry On Mars
06:41 25-06-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has delivered a scoop of Martian soil from the "Snow White" trenches to the optical microscope for analysis tomorrow, June 24, the 29th Martian day of the mission, or Sol 29.
Celestial Clues Hint At Eclipse In Homer's Odyssey
00:41 24-06-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
Among countless other debates about Homer's Odyssey -- not the least of which is whether the entire poem can be attributed to Homer himself -- is whether Odysseus returns home to experience a total solar eclipse. But scientists believe they have found astronomical references in the Odyssey that provide corroborating evidence of this celestial event.
Radio Telescopes Reveal Unseen Galactic Cannibalism
18:41 23-06-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
Using radio telescopes, astronomers have solved a mystery of how the gigantic black holes at the cores of active galaxies known as Seyfert galaxies get their "food." While visible-light images showed little evidence that these galaxies had any interaction with their neighbors, the radio-telescope images revealed that the galaxies are snacking on their neighbors, and the "meal" ultimately reaches the black hole.
NASA Mars Lander To Dig; Team Probes Flash Memory
06:41 20-06-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission generated an unusually high volume of spacecraft housekeeping data on Tuesday causing the loss of some non-critical science data. Phoenix engineers are analyzing why this anomaly occurred. The science team is planning spacecraft activities for Thursday that will not rely on Phoenix storing science data overnight but will make use of multiple communication relays to gain extra data quantity.
Bright Chunks At Phoenix Lander's Mars Site Must Have Been Ice
06:41 20-06-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
Dice-size crumbs of bright material have vanished from inside a trench where they were photographed by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander four days ago, convincing scientists that the material was frozen water that vaporized after digging exposed it.
Chemical Clues Point To Dusty Origin For Earth-like Planets
21:41 19-06-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
Higher than expected levels of sodium found in a 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite suggest that the dust clouds from which the building blocks of the Earth and neighboring planets formed were much denser than previously supposed.
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