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Mars Orbiter spies Phobos in front of Red Planet

Colin Stuart — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 10:57:18 +0000

Unlike our Moon, which is about one quarter the size of Earth, Phobos, the largest of Mars’s two moons is tiny – just 25 kilometres across. That makes it smaller than London. In this new image, released from The Mars Orbiter, Phobos is seen passing in front of Mars back in October. The gorgeous views […]

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Revived Kepler telescope spies first multiple planet system

Colin Stuart — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:07:18 +0000

In very encouraging news, the Kepler planet-hunting telescope seems to be relishing its new setup – so much so that it has spotted its first exoplanetary system with more than one planet. This comes hot on the heels of the news before Christmas that the mission – dubbed K2 – had found its first exoplanet […]

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Dawn mission reveals Ceres’s ‘white spot’ persists

Colin Stuart — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 18:10:17 +0000

The latest image from NASA’s Dawn mission has revealed the same unexplained white spot observed by the Hubble Space Telescope as far back as 2003. Its true nature is one of many mysteries the mission hopes to resolve when it sidles up to the asteroid later this year. Some researchers suspect that Ceres has a […]

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