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      NASA Craft Settles Into Mars Orbit

      Posted by Billbar from Space.com

      Over the next several months, the orbiter will deploy its 33-foot antenna and remove a lens cap from one of its instruments. It will begin collecting data in November, and scientists expect the resolution of those images to be nine times higher. The unmanned orbiter safely slipped into orbit around Mars in March after a seven-month, 310 million-mile journey. It joined three other spacecraft currently flying around the planet and two rovers rolling across the surface.

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      Mars Rover Poised for Run at Victoria Crater

      Posted by Billbar from Space.com

      It has been a long, hard drive on Mars for NASA's Opportunity rover. Wheeling across the open, parking lot-like dune fields of Meridiani Planum, the robot is nearing a major milestone: rolling up to "Victoria", a crater that is roughly half a mile wide and 230 feet deep.

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      Martian Pole Dotted With Carbon Dioxide Geysers

      Posted by Billbar from Seed Magazine

      The dark spots that appear on the South Pole of Mars have been a source of mystery for years. But now, scientists at the US Geological Survey and Arizona State University have announced that these patches result from geysers of soil and gaseous carbon dioxide, in a process unlike any that takes place on Earth. "You've got this high pressure gas that's moving underneath the ice," said Timothy Titus, an astrogeologist at the U.S. Geological Survey. "As it's moving, if there's any loose dust or sand, it brings it along with it." The sand and dust fall around the vent in a circular pattern, but, over the course of days or weeks, wind carries lighter particles farther from the vent, producing the observed fan-like pattern on the surface of the ice.

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      Lakes Found on Saturn's Moon Titan

      Posted by Billbar from Space.com

      These are not bodies of water like those on Earth, but rather dark lakes of methane and possibly ethane. They are likely the source of the hydrocarbon smog in the moon's atmosphere that has long made it impossible to even see the surface. "This is a big deal," said Steve Wall, deputy radar team leader at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "We've now seen a place other than Earth where lakes are present."

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