Space science
What's interesting at the highest peak of Moon Titan?
Scientists on NASA's Cassini spacecraft have just taken a flight to the highest peak of Titan on Saturn.
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Space science
What is the small green spot on Mars's surface?
Recently a satellite image of the Red Planet's terrain has accidentally revealed small blue spots on the surface. So what are they and where do they come from?
Space science
NASA developed the Mars helicopter drone
Despite being an achievement in Mars exploration, even Curiosity will be limited to the Red Planet's vision and mobility on the terrain.
Space science
Mars used to have rain
The study is published in Geophysical Research Letters after the science team explored the topographic structure of the valley system on the red planet. T
Space science
The truth about 'giant finger' on Mars
American researchers have found the answer to the mysterious, seasonal occurrence of giant finger-like structures on steep terrain of the red planet.
Space science
The island of Mars is right on Earth
For the past 16 years, NASA scientists have made many flights to the Canadian island of Devon, which has similar topographic features to Mars to study and test technolog…
Space science
Planetary mystery Vesta
The first images of the asteroid vesta sent from the space probe Dawn were announced by the US Aviation Agency (NASA) on August 1.
Space science
Earth used to have two moons
On the moon, the part that people see from the earth has flat terrain. In contrast, the unseen part is quite rugged with mountains with a height of more than 3,000 meter…
Space science
Explore Mercury from Messenger spacecraft
After nearly three months in orbit, much information about Mercury was sent to the Earth by Messenger. In addition, the new mystery about the planet near the Sun is also…
Space science
ExoMars are 'appointment errors' with Mars
Xinhua News Agency reported that the European Space Agency (ESA) has just announced that it will continue to move the time for bringing the ExoMars off-road vehicle (pic…
Space science
Self-propelled vehicles go on many terrains
ATHLETE is a 6-foot robot vehicle developed by a group of American companies and institutes, capable of crossing quite hard, moderate or extremely soft surface terrains.
Space science
Landslide on Mars
The photographs were completely random and showed that the sepia clouds moved right at the foot of a giant slope up to 760m long, from which an ice and dust eruption was…
Space science
Researchers have succeeded in creating Mars topographic maps
Thanks to the use of high-resolution holographic shooting data called HRSC equipped with Mars Express Mars probe, scientific researchers have drawn the first walking map…
Animal world
Python died of swallowing porcupines
A terrain biker found the African python dead in the reserve, his stomach swollen from swallowing a porcupine.
