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Underwater Ice reserve?

 

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Underwater Ice reserve?

'underground' That error is in the thumbnail, video itself is fine. A (Frozen) Great Lake of Water Is Found Beneath the Surface of Mars


Whatever. More Martian stuff

 

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Colour composite of Phobos taken with the ExoMars orbiter's Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) on 26 November 2016. The observation was made at a distance of 7700 km and yields a resolution of 87 m/pixel.

Colourful swirls depict an unprecedented storm that played out in the northern hemisphere of the gas giant Saturn from December 2010 until June 2011.

Cassini Beams Back First Images from New Orbit

New images from ISS

Dec. 2, 2016, view from the Navigation Camera on the mast of NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover shows rocky ground within view while the rover was working at an intended drilling site called "Precipice" on lower Mount Sharp.

New image from Opportunity Rover on Mars

Sahara Desert From the Space Station's EarthKAM

Part of Ezinu Crater on Ceres is seen at top left in this image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft.

Dark Matter May be Smoother than Expected

 

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New images from Ceres and Saturn

 

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Earth from ISS

Cassini beams back images of Hyperion, Tethys & Enceladus

This stunning aerial image shows the hills and mountains surrounding ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile.

Impact of a Solar Storm 28 October 2003

 

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New images of Sun, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Mimas

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The world's largest digital survey of the visible universe, mapping billions of stars and galaxies, has been published for the first time.


Researchers will now be able to study the 'farthest reaches of the universe and gain insights into elusive dark energy and dark matter' using the map, experts say.

The map is the product of a project using a 6 foot (1.8 metre) telescope at the summit of the Haleakala volcano in Maui, Hawaii, which captured large images of the sky every 30 seconds for four years.

The Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) captures fast-moving objects and tracked exploding stars across the sky.

The project is part of an international collaboration including the universities of Edinburgh and Durham, and Queen's University Belfast, and was also supported by Nasa and the National Science Foundation.

Images from the project, released today by the Space Telescope Science Institute and the University of Hawaii, will now be analysed to identify and catalogue astronomical objects.

http://www.hawaii.edu/news/2016/12/19/largest-digital-sky-survey-released-by-pan-starrs/

 

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The world's largest digital survey of the visible universe, mapping billions of stars and galaxies, has been published for the first time.

Thanks, here are alternative links from Durham and Queen's universities. They say this immense collection of information contains 2 petabytes of computer data.

 

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Lots of exciting discoveries:

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Experiment resolves mystery about wind flows on Jupiter
Using a spinning table and a massive garbage can, UCLA geophysicist leads team in simulating the planet's atmosphere

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Many muons: Imaging the underground with help from the cosmos

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Lunar sonic booms

Sonic boomlets are being generated by protons in the solar wind - moving at supersonic speed - colliding with pockets of magnetic fields that bubble up from the Moon's crust.

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The climate-changing desert dust fertilising our oceans

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Teasing Out the Secrets beneath Jupiter's Cloud Tops

Did Jupiter form closer to the Sun and then move out? Is helium rain continuously falling on a supersized Jovian core of metallic hydrogen?

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Large, Exceptional Gem Diamonds Formed from Metallic Liquid inside Earth's Mantle

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Researchers discover hot hydrogen atoms in Earth's upper atmosphere (thermosphere)

 

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Cassini captured this image roughly 25,200 miles from Pandora during its closest-ever flyby on December 18. It’s one of the highest-resolution views yet, showing the 52-mile-wide moon that orbits just outside the F ring

According to the space agency, the image was captured in green light using Cassini’s narrow-angle camera, at a scale of 787 feet (240 meters) per pixel.

 

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Cassini captured this image roughly 25,200 miles from Pandora during its closest-ever flyby on December 18. It’s one of the highest-resolution views yet, showing the 52-mile-wide moon that orbits just outside the F ring

Great shot. Pandora kinda looks like Phobos (post 429 on this page)



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Astronomer Vera Rubin who did pioneering work on dark matter, passes away at 88

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Dwarf star Gliese 710 gonna kick our butts ... in 1.35 million years

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Aurora

Earth from ISS

 

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Earth from space (image from astronaut Thomas Pesquet)

Energetic particles from Sun smashed into Earth's magnetic field Dec. 22, stirring up a display of northern lights: (NASA)

Sunlight truly has come to Saturn's north pole (Cassini mission NASA/ESA)

 

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Latest news/discoveries

 

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Latest news/discoveries

 

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