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Looking Up – Bob Eklund

The layered geologic past of Mars is revealed in stunning detail in new color images returned by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover (mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl), which is currently exploring the “Murray Buttes” region of lower Mount Sharp. The …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

Space Scientists Call for Volunteers to Help Guide Mission to Solar System’s Edge Looking for a cutting-edge science project for your youngster? Here’s one that will help the space effort as well as educate—and it …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

Cassini Spacecraft Captures Ocean-Like Spray from Saturn’s Moon– NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has discovered the best evidence yet for a large-scale saltwater reservoir beneath the icy crust of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The data came from the …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

Asteroids May Have Brought Us Life’s Ingredients Some asteroids may have been like “molecular factories” cranking out life’s ingredients and shipping them to Earth via meteorite impacts, according to scientists who’ve made discoveries of molecules …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

New Mars Rover to Have 3-D Color Vision; “Highway to the Stars” Opens to Mt. Wilson Two digital color cameras riding high on the mast of NASA’s next Mars rover will complement each other in …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

Searching for Intelligent Life on 86 Earth-Like Planets Now that NASA’s Kepler space telescope has identified 1,235 possible planets around stars in our galaxy, astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley, are aiming a radio …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

Herschel Space Observatory Lives Up to the Family Name — Astronomy is about scientific discoveries, and every week our scientists bring us new and richer views of the Universe around us. But astronomy is also …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

Sailing the Titan Seas: NASA Selects Mission to Saturn’s Moon — The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., is managing a project to explore the organic seas of Saturn’s moon Titan, …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

NASA Orbiter Reveals Buried Dry Ice Deposit on Mars NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has discovered that the total amount of atmosphere on Mars changes dramatically as the tilt of the planet’s axis varies. This process …[READ MORE]

Looking Up by Bob Eklund

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

School Pupils to Partner with Research Scientists – The Van Allen radiation belts are a hazardous environment, full of “killer” electrons that can be lethal to orbiting satellites. And when those electrons sometimes hit the …[READ MORE]