News Archive / Tagged: Water
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Observations indicate comets may have brought water to Earth
Laurel KornfeldMay 27th, 2019Observations of Comet Wirtanen by the world's largest airborne observatory support the notion that comets may have delivered water to Earth.
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Curiosity reveals mysterious variety of terrains at Vera Rubin Ridge
Laurel KornfeldSeptember 11th, 2018The area around NASA's Curiosity rover is providing scientists with colors and textures that are leaving them puzzled.
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Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles
Jim SharkeyAugust 28th, 2018A team of researchers using data collected by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument have directly observed definitive evidence of water ice at the Moon's poles. While most of the ice at the southern pole is concentrated in lunar craters, the substance is more widely, but sparsely distributed, at the northern pole.
