Items tagged with exploration

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NASA's Dreaming: Future Space Technologies Saturday, January 29th, 2011 - 12:07:08 - Anuradha Menon From antimatter rockets to flying robots, NASA's wish list of technologies for space exploration stretches the imagination. The ideas appear in the... read more

Space Laboratory Open for Business Thursday, November 18th, 2010 - 09:29:33 - Anuradha Menon After nearly 12 years of development and a price tag of $100 billion, the International Space Station (ISS) is fully assembled, and the White House... read more

Mars Rover Sets Endurance Record Friday, May 21st, 2010 - 12:16:17 - Anuradha Menon Look to the southwest in tonight's sky, and if it's a clear night, you'll see the ruddy dot of Mars just to the right of the bright star Regulus... read more

Ancient DNA Set To Rewrite Human History Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 - 09:09:00 - Anuradha Menon The worlds of ancient and modern DNA exploration have collided in spectacular fashion in the past few months. Last week saw the publication of a... read more

Huge Asphalt Volcanoes Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 - 09:32:13 - Anuradha Menon First discovered in 2007, the seven mounds sit about 700 feet (213 meters) beneath the ocean, roughly 10 miles (16 kilometers) offshore from Santa... read more

The Shape Of Life To Come Monday, April 26th, 2010 - 12:05:40 - Anuradha Menon The United Nations has made 2010 its Year of Biodiversity. While there could be as many as 30 million species on this teeming planet, so far fewer... read more

For Better Health: Be Nice To People Saturday, September 19th, 2009 - 12:24:03 - Anuradha Menon It sounds kind of obvious, and a little trite: the world would be a better place to live in if we were all a bit kinder to each other. But how can we... read more

NASA Mars Rover Ascends To Level Ground Sunday, August 31st, 2008 - 18:37:35 - Anuradha Menon NASA's Mars Exploration rover Opportunity is heading back out to the Red Planet's surrounding plains nearly a year after descending into a large... read more

A New Spectrometer for Planetary Exploration Friday, August 8th, 2008 - 18:46:48 - Anuradha Menon The potency of Fourier transform spectroscopy (FTS) for chemical analysis is well established. It provides identification and quantification of... read more

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