News Archive / Tagged: Water
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Ceres may have formed in the outer solar system
Laurel KornfeldApril 3rd, 2022Ceres is located in the asteroid belt, but its makeup and large water content suggest it formed in the outer solar system where other dwarf planets orbit.
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Liquid water may exist beneath Mars’ south polar ice cap
Laurel KornfeldFebruary 14th, 2022Bright reflections detected in 2018 by the Mars Express orbiter could indicate the presence of liquid water lakes beneath Mars south polar ice cap.
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First Perseverance rover Mars rock samples suggest Jezero Crater was once habitable
Laurel KornfeldSeptember 23rd, 2021The first Martian rock samples collected by NASA's Perseverance rover for eventual return to Earth suggest landing site Jezero Crater harbored water for a long enough time to be habitable for microbial life.
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Mars and Titan: Two very different potentially habitable worlds
Laurel KornfeldMarch 23rd, 2021Mars and Saturn’s moon Titan are at the forefront of the search for habitable solar system worlds, but they are very different from one another in terms of the presence of liquid, temperature variations, and the presence of organic compounds, planetary scientist Vincent Chevrier of the University of Arkansas noted in a March 12 online […]
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Amount of water on the Moon varies by location and time of day
Laurel KornfeldFebruary 6th, 2021Two Earth-based studies confirm water molecules are present on the Moon, but amounts vary depending on location and time of day, Casey Honniball of NASA.
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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.
