Space

Whether called “dirty snowballs” or “icy dirtballs,” comets are rich in water ice. However, until today, little is known about the nature of cometary water…
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The interior of comets and asteroids is still poorly known. A better knowledge of these small Solar bodies is particularly interesting as these bodies contain…
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Large asteroid families are usually the product of a collision between two bodies. Fragments of the parent body are ejected with terminal ejection velocities that…
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Mars is a planet of geological curiosities that often have no parallels on Earth. Among these include the largest and deepest canyon system — Valles…
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For the Mars surface exploration mission, a vehicle, e.g. Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), should fly through the atmosphere and land on the Mars surface using…
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Clouds are not located at the same altitude everywhere in Venus’ atmosphere. They are 10km lower at the poles than at the equator. This altitude…
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The heliosphere is filled with hot dilute plasma known as solar wind. Due to thermal collisions, the velocity distribution of ions follows a Maxwell distribution….
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Space is one of humanity’s last frontier and a place we are eager to explore. As we prep many different missions to explore our solar…
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Space words help you to learn more about our solar system and everything in it. From Mars to International Space Station, space words bring meaning…
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NASA made an exciting discovery this past Thursday. According to the agency, the NASA rover Curiosity found organic matter in soil samples obtained at the…
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In a recent study published in the journal Science, researchers from the Arizona detachment of United States Geological Survey reported, with the help of NASA…
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