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Saturn's Icy Moon May Keep Oceans Liquid With WobblePasadena CA (JPL) Oct 07, 2010 Saturn's icy moon Enceladus should not be one of the most promising places in our solar system to look for extraterrestrial life. Instead, it should have frozen solid billions of years ago. Located in the frigid outer solar system, it's too far from the sun to have oceans of liquid water - a necessary ingredient for known forms of life - on its surface. Some worlds, like Mars or Jupiter's moon Europa, give hints that they might harbor liquid water beneath their surfaces. Mars is about 4,200 miles ... read more |
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Bozeman, Mont. (UPI) Oct 5, 2010 A rare oasis of life has been found among geothermal vents in Wyoming's Yellowstone Lake, the first such discovery in a freshwater system, scientists say. Montana State University researchers have found a colony of moss, worms and varieties of shrimp in inky-black, 90-degree F water in a cauldron of nutrients and gases, a university release said Monday. The geothermal vent is alm ... more  
San Antonio TX (SPX) Oct 04, 2010The unusual "knot" in the bright, narrow ribbon of neutral atoms emanating in from the boundary between our solar system and interstellar space appears to have "untied," according to a paper published online in the Journal of Geophysical Research. Researchers believe the ribbon, first revealed in maps produced by NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft, forms in response to ... more  
Arlington TX (SPX) Oct 04, 2010Work by a team of University of Texas at Arlington astronomers could significantly broaden astrophysicists' search for planets in other solar systems by changing the way they think about the orbiting bodies. If correct, the findings could increase the opportunities for the discovery of new planets in candidate systems. The paper by Manfred Cuntz, UT Arlington associate professor of p ... more |
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NASA official: Moon still mattersWash., D.C. (UPI) Oct 1, 2010 NASA new direction of sending astronauts to the asteroids or Mars doesn't mean a return to the moon is out of the question, the U.S. agency's deputy head says. NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver said the moon has a role to play in the new space exploration plan set by President Barack Obama and approved by Congress this week. "Lunar science and lunar exploration is alive and well in NASA," Garver told SPACE.com. Obama's plan cancels NASA's moon-oriented Constellation program, i ... read more |
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