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November 24, 2009

Earth / Space

08/18/09

Science | Earth / Space | Social Science:  When it comes to weather, there's still much to learn

Arizona State University professor Randy Cerveny is bringing past weather to light in a new book that shows how weather played a major role in key turning points in history.

07/17/09

Earth / Space:  Apollo missions brought surprises to one of Arizona’s ‘leading moon men’

ASU Regents' Professor Emeritus Carleton Moore was among those in Arizona who helped prepare NASA astronauts for lunar travel.

07/17/09

Research | Earth / Space:  LROC takes first look at Apollo landing sites

The imaging system on board NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, operated by ASU professor Mark Robinson, recently had its first of many opportunities to photograph the Apollo landing sites.

07/15/09

Earth / Space:  Turbulence responsible for black holes’ balancing act

Assistant professor Evan Scannapieco is part of a team of international theoretical astrophysiscists responsible for uncovering a model that expands our knowledge of clusters, the largest structures in the Universe.

07/14/09

Earth / Space:  Recalling 1st Moon walk: July 20, 1969

ASU cosmologist Lawrence Krauss recalls for the New York Times'  Claudia Dreifus what he was doing when Apollo 11 landed on the Moon.

07/10/09

Science | Earth / Space:  ASU rock pile reaches 10,000

An off-hand comment by ASU professor and Mars scientist Philip Christensen at a NASA news conference started an international postal avalanche of rocks.

07/08/09

Science | Research | Earth / Space:  Explosive growth of life fueled by early greening of Earth

Researchers, led by ASU geologist L. Paul Knauth, believe they have found the trigger for the Cambrian explosion of life that occurred on Earth roughly 540 million years ago.

07/02/09

Research | Earth / Space:  New focus on the Moon

The first images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera show dramatic views of the Moon's surface, to the delight of ASU's Mark Robinson, the project's lead scientist.

06/30/09

News coverage | Earth / Space:  Cassini spacecraft finds evidence for liquid water on Enceladus

Research published in the journal Nature, confirms ASU planetary geochemist Mikhail Zolotov's prediction that an early ocean on one of Saturn's moons would have contained sodium chloride and sodium bicarbonate.

06/23/09

Earth / Space:  ASU instrument takes better look at Mars minerals

A new orbit at an earlier time of day is increasing the sensitivity and efficiency of ASU's THEMIS multi-band camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.