Venus Express Reveals New Details On Venusian Clouds
06:41 05-06-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
As ESA's Venus Express orbits our sister planet, new images of the cloud structure of one of the most enigmatic atmospheres of the Solar System reveal brand-new details. Venus is covered by a thick layer of clouds that extends between 45 and 70 km above the surface. These rapidly-moving clouds are mainly composed of micron-sized droplets of sulphuric acid and other aerosols (fine solid or liquid droplets suspended in a gas), the origin of which is unknown.
Phoenix Mars Lander Ready To Gather Samples
06:41 05-06-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
Two practice rounds of digging and dumping the clumpy soil at the Martian arctic site this week gave scientists and engineers gathered at the University of Arizona confidence to begin using Phoenix's Robotic Arm to deliver soil samples to instruments on the lander deck.
Search For ET: New Telescope Array Could Help Detect Possible Signals From Advanced Civilizations
03:41 05-06-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
Scientists are taking advantage of promising new ideas on where to search for possible extraterrestrial intelligence in our galaxy. They propose using the new Allen Telescope Array, made up of hundreds of specially produced small dishes to search for possible signals from technologically advanced civilizations elsewhere in our galaxy.
Giant Telescope Mirrors For The Moon Could Be Made With Carbon, Epoxy And Lunar Dust
21:41 04-06-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
Scientists working at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, have concocted an innovative recipe for giant telescope mirrors on the Moon. To make a mirror that dwarfs anything on Earth, just take a little bit of carbon, throw in some epoxy, and add lots of lunar dust.
Team Hopes To Use New Technology To Search For ETs
18:41 04-06-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
A team is briefing fellow scientists about plans to use new technology to take advantage of recent, promising ideas on where to search for possible extraterrestrial intelligence in our galaxy.
White Dwarf Lost In Planetary Nebula
03:41 04-06-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
Call it the case of the missing dwarf. A team of stellar astronomers is engaged in an interstellar CSI (crime scene investigation). They have two suspects, traces of assault and battery, but no corpse. The southern planetary nebula SuWt 2 is the scene of the crime, some 6,500 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Centaurus.
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