... reliable information and have the ability to detect an Earth-mass moon around a Neptune-mass gas ... gather so much information about distant moons as well as distant planets. If some of these gas giants ...
NASA's LCROSS probe takes images of Earth and Moon from orbit.
Images taken right after Rosetta’s second Earth swing-by last night are now available. ... chaser’s navigation camera (NAVCAM) took pictures of regions in the Antarctic and snapshots of Earth and the Moon ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A spacecraft sent on a mission to inspect comets has filmed the Earth and its moon from 31 million miles away, making an alien's-eye view of our world.
... graphics to simulate and render an accurate visualization of a lunar eclipse. The model uses celestial geometry of the sun, Earth, and moon, along with data for the Earth's atmosphere and the moon's ...
... involved in the current research.
"Water ice on the moon has been something of a holy grail for lunar scientists ... June 2009 and December 2007 flybys of the Earth and Moon needed to get adequate gravity ...
... to 3.8 billion years ago. This period corresponds to the earliest years of the solar system, when Earth, the moon and Mars sustained a cosmic bombardment by comets and asteroids. Rocks of this age ...
... new insight on Titan's chemistry and weather dynamics.
Titan, which is one-and-a-half times the size of Earth's moon and bigger than either Mercury or Pluto, is one of the most fascinating bodies in ...
... of oxygen types, or isotopes, that differs from those found in all known planetary rocks, including those from Earth, its Moon and meteorites from Mars. Now scientists from UC San Diego and Lawrence ...
The MESSENGER spacecraft's second swing past the innermost planet shows that the tiny world appears to bear striking similarities to Earth's moon.
... is located about 10.5 light-years from Earth in the constellation Eridanus. (A light-year is the distance ... total, it contains about 1/20 the mass of Earth's Moon. Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, ...
... ever sent to Europa in search of life. Europa, which is slightly smaller than Earth's moon, is one of Jupiter's 63 moons. With surface temperatures as cold as minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit, Europa's ...
... Many of them look very different than impact craters seen on Earth's moon or Mercury. Fresh lunar and Mercurian craters have ejecta blankets that look a bit rough near the crater rims ...
