Tag: Planetary Sciences & Geobiology
May 9, 2010
Separated at Birth
It turns out that the newly discovered deposits of water ice on Mars, called lobate debris aprons, are very similar to rock covered glaciers in…
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Hunting Hidden Glaciers: The Search for Mid-Latitude Ice on Mars
Scientists reviewing images of the surface of Mars transmitted to Earth by the Viking orbiters in the 1970s were puzzled by mountains and cliffs surrounded…
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A Tradition of Training Astronauts
For more than half his life, Bill Muehlberger has trained astronauts. He started in 1964 when he took a group of Apollo astronauts to the…
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Fly Me to the Moon
Mark Helper looked out the windshield of his pressurized lunar rover at a gray otherworldly landscape that stretched in every direction as far as he…
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