Previous maps of the continent had a resolution similar to seeing the whole of Central Park from a satellite, writes Shannon Stirone in the New York Times. With this new data, it is now possible to see down to the size of a car, and even smaller in some areas. The data is so complete that scientists
At D-brief, Shannon Stirone quoted one scientist as saying the Curiosity data is "a jackpot," and another noting that the researchers have "consistently seen these habitable conditions over time and in different locations across Mars." Stirone says the water in Gale Crater Lake might even have been
Date: Dec 19, 2016
Source: Google
New Horizons Gets Green Light To Explore A World Beyond Pluto
history-making Pluto exploration last July, the fate of the little spacecraft that could was up in the air. It continued past Pluto and started heading for MU69, an icy, 20-30 mile wide Kuiper Belt object that's "a time capsule from the earliest days of our solar system," PopSci's Shannon Stirone wrote.