Isachsen's quest began with a simple observation. He spreads a map out on the hood of his truck— a satellite image of New York State. "I first noticed this in the early 1970s," he says. "I had a grant ...
NASA selects Gale Crater as the Mars rover Curiosity landing site, targeting signs of habitability and evidence of water on Mars. In choosing the landing site, scientists had to balance many factors.
Skip the stiff climb up Larch Mountain and the crowded lower parking lots on the Historic Highway. This lesser-used route offers a more moderate ascent to the top of this ancient shield volcano and ...
You're probably as eager as I am for new images of Pluto and Ceres as both New Horizons and Dawn push ever closer to their respective little worlds. Recent photos, of which there are only a few, ...
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has beamed back an incredible image of its surroundings, showing a spectacularly clear view of the enormous mountain that it will clamber up in the next few years. The ...
Deep within the forests of Siberia, there is a mountain of stone that rises from its surroundings at a single point. It is estimated to be 40 meters high, 160 meters wide, and weigh approximately one ...
An interdisciplinary research team led by scientists from Freie Universität Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology has shown how deep lakes formed more than 9,500 years ago in the craters ...
Crater Trail is an unofficial feature of Rocky Mountain National Park, but it’s also a well-established one, having been in place for generations. Now, however, an environmental assessment conducted ...
The Mars Science Laboratory, better known as Curiosity, has sent back its first color photo from the Red Planet. Curiosity snapped this photo showing the rim of the Gale Crater, the 96-mile-wide ...
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