Tag: crater
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actual race to mars could begin saturday
from foxnews: It’s a grueling marathon, only this time the finish line is the Red Planet — and the race takes place at 70,000 miles per hour. NASA’s newest Mars rover is scheduled for launch Saturday; Curiosity should arrive at the Red Planet’s mineral-rich Gale Crater next August, after a 354-million-mile, 8.5-month voyage aboard an…
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transient lunar phenomena
The advent of Transient Lunar Phenomena (TLP) is a relatively recent development with the term first used in 1968. There are professionals, who still doubt whether the brief changes in light, color and appearance of moon features are just optical illusions. A common belief is the TLPs may be “last gasps” of geological activity coming from below the moon’s surface, as presented in this…