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November 24, 2009

Earth / Space

09/22/07

Research | Earth / Space:  Heat-sensing camera finds 'skylights' on Mars

A team of geologists, including ASU's Phil Christensen have found seven small, deep holes on Mars using a heat-sensitive camera designed at ASU and flying on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter.

08/03/07

Science | Earth / Space:  Apollo archive casts new light

The complete photographic record from the Apollo moon project has landed in a new online digital archive that gives access to researchers and the general public.

07/22/07

Research | Earth / Space:  Pluto's moon an ice machine

Frigid geysers spewing material up through cracks in the crust of Pluto’s companion Charon could be making this distant world into the equivalent of an outer solar system ice machine.

07/15/07

Research | Earth / Space:  ASU scientists track Martian dust storm

Scientists at ASU’s Mars Space Flight Facility are using the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) on NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter to monitor a large dust storm on the Red Planet.

07/11/07

University | Research | Earth / Space:  ASU scientists keep an eye on Martian dust storm

Scientists at ASU’s Mars Space Flight Facility are using the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) on NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter to monitor a large dust storm on the Red Planet.

06/25/07

Science | Earth / Space:  Scientist uncovers Earth's mysterious layer

Laboratory measurements of a high-pressure mineral believed to exist deep within the Earth show that the mineral may not, as geophysicists hoped, have the right properties to explain a mysterious layer lying just above the planet's core.

06/21/07

Science | Faculty and Staff | Earth / Space:  ASU geophysicists detect molten rock layer deep below American Southwest

A sheet of molten rock roughly 10 miles thick spreads underneath much of the American Southwest, some 250 miles below Tucson. From the surface, you can't see it, smell it or feel it.

06/20/07

Earth / Space:  Fate and Stars

Rogier Windhorst has spent his entire career thinking big. He has to. He is an astrophysicist. He uses the most advanced telescope systems ever developed to peer into deep space, and essentially back in time.

04/22/07

University | Faculty and Staff | Earth / Space:  Robinson's research gives astronauts lay of the (lunar) land

The next astronauts to go to the moon will know where to land, thanks to a powerful camera run by one of ASU's own.

03/30/07

Earth / Space:  Symposium highlights science communication

Some of the nation's leading scientists and science journalists will present their perspectives on the roles of scientists and engineers in popular communication during a symposium April 2 at ASU titled “Essential Dialogues: Why Scientists and Engineers Must Not Speak in Tongues.”