Hubble News Feed from SciGuru.com http://www.sciguru.com http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3809/Martian-Dust-Devil-Whirls-into-Opportunity's-View/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:28:58 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3809 In its six-and-a-half years on Mars, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity had never seen a dust devil before this month, despite some systematic http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3797/Caltech-Astronomer-Finds-Planets-in-Unusually-Intimate-Dance-around-Dying-Star-/ Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:18:32 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3797 Hundreds of extrasolar planets have been found over the past decade and a half, most of them solitary worlds orbiting their parent star in seeming iso http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3759/NASA-Spacecraft-Camera-Yields-Most-Accurate-Mars-Map-Ever/ Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:41:04 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3759 A camera aboard NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has helped develop the most accurate global Martian map ever. Researchers and the public can access the http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3729/Video-Camera-Will-Show-Mars-Rover's-Touchdown/ Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:38:59 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3729 A downward-pointing camera on the front-left side of NASA's Curiosity rover will give adventure fans worldwide an unprecedented sense of riding a spac http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3683/Core-values-set-new-date-for-birth-of-the-Earth/ Sun, 11 Jul 2010 05:00:16 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3683 The Earth could be up to 70 million years younger than scientists previously thought, a study has found. An international team of researchers used geo http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3648/Wheels-for-off-roading-on-Mars/ Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:44:46 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3648 Six of them! And these wheels aren't meant for the concrete roadways, bustling freeways, or sleepy highways-they're destined for off-roading on Mars. http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3603/This-Month-in-Exploration---July/ Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:49:44 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3603 From the early days of experimental airplanes to NASA's soaring space shuttles, the evolution of flight has mirrored the evolution of society. The ong http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3602/Man-in-the-Moon-has-'Graphite-Whiskers'/ Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:31:28 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3602 In a new analysis of a lunar sample collected by Apollo 17, researchers have detected and dated carbon on the moon in the form of graphite - the sooty http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3597/Next-Mars-Rover-Sports-a-Set-of-New-Wheels/ Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:40:26 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3597 NASA's next Mars rover, Curiosity, is sitting pretty on a set of spiffy new wheels that would be the envy of any car show on Earth. The wheels and a s http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3583/NASA-Mars-Rover-Seeing-Destination-in-More-Detail/ Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:06:17 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3583 Mars rover team members have begun informally naming features around the rim of Endeavour Crater, as they develop plans to investigate that destinatio http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3563/NASA-Instrument-Will-Identify-Clues-to-Martian-Past/ Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:39:51 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3563 NASA's Curiosity rover, coming together for a late 2011 launch to Mars, has a newly installed component: a key onboard X-ray instrument for helping th http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3545/New-Clues-Suggest-Wet-Era-on-Early-Mars-Was-Global/ Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:44:32 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3545 Minerals in northern Mars craters seen by two orbiters suggest that a phase in Mars' early history with conditions favorable to life occurred globally http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3511/Ten-Cool-Things-Seen-in-the-First-Year-of-Lunar-Reconnaissance-Orbiter-(LRO)/ Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:57:17 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3511 Having officially reached lunar orbit on June 23rd, 2009, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has now marked one full year on its mission to scout http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3491/Seventh-Graders-Find-a-Cave-on-Mars/ Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:19:32 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3491 Using the camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter, 16 seventh-graders at Evergreen Middle School in Cottonwood, Calif., found lava tubes with one pit th http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3479/Caltech-Geologist-Investigates-Canyon-Carved-in-Just-Three-Days-in-Texas-Flood/ Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:09:18 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3479 In the summer of 2002, a week of heavy rains in Central Texas caused Canyon Lake-the reservoir of the Canyon Dam-to flood over its spillway and down t http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3459/Research-Suggests-Water-Content-of-Moon's-Interior-Underestimated/ Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:27:08 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3459 NASA-funded scientists estimate from recent research that the volume of water molecules locked inside minerals in the moon's interior could exceed the http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3407/Rosetta's-blind-date-with-asteroid-Lutetia/ Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:40:18 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3407 ESA's comet-chaser Rosetta is heading for a blind date with asteroid Lutetia. Rosetta does not yet know what Lutetia looks like but beautiful or other http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3398/An-Ancient-Ocean-May-Have-Covered-One-Third-of-Mars-/ Tue, 15 Jun 2010 03:27:17 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3398 A vast ocean likely covered one-third of the surface of Mars some 3.5 billion years ago, according to a new study conducted by University of Colorado http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3395/Hayabusa-Asteroid-Mission-Comes-Home/ Mon, 14 Jun 2010 08:48:13 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3395 The Hayabusa capsule and bus entered the Earth's atmosphere over Woomera, Australia, on June 13 at 11:21 p.m. local time. From the perspective of NASA http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3390/NASA-Helps-in-Upcoming-Asteroid-Mission-Homecoming/ Sun, 13 Jun 2010 09:06:02 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3390 The space and astronomy worlds have June 13 circled on the calendar. That's when the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) expects the sample retu