[FPSPACE] FW: Mars landing preview / Rover finds Yellowstone-like hot spring deposits

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>Subject: Mars landing preview / Rover finds Yellowstone-like hot spring 
>deposits
>Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 14:24:37 -0400
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>PHOENIX LANDER NEARS ITS MARTIAN DESTINATION
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>This Sunday evening, 171 million miles beyond its builders' ability to do
>anything but watch and bite their nails as they monitor events that
>happened 15 minutes earlier, NASA's appropriately named Phoenix spacecraft
>will slam into the upper atmosphere of Mars at a blistering 12,527 mph
>some 77.6 miles above the red planet's frozen surface.
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>http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/phoenix/080522landingpre.html
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>LANDING TIMELINE:
>http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/phoenix/080521edl.html
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>YELLOWSTONE-LIKE HOT SPRING DEPOSITS FOUND ON MARS
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>Deposits of nearly pure silica discovered by the Mars Exploration Rover
>Spirit in Gusev Crater formed when volcanic steam or hot water (or maybe
>both) percolated through the ground. Such deposits are found around
>hydrothermal vents like those in Yellowstone National Park.
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>http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0805/22marshotsprings/
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>SCIENTISTS WITNESS A ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME EVENT
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>When she peered into the screen of her computer one day in January, Alicia
>Soderberg was supposed to see a small, dull glowing smudge in one corner,
>the evidence of a month-old supernova that would help her better
>understand the mystery of these huge exploding stars.
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>http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0805/21supernova/
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>MIGHTY WINDS BLOW IN JUPITER'S LITTLE RED SPOT
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>Using data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft and two telescopes at
>Earth, an international team of scientists has found that one of the solar
>system's largest and newest storms - Jupiter's Little Red Spot - has some
>of the highest wind speeds ever detected on any planet.
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>http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0805/21littleredspot/
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><a 
>href="http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/phoenix/080522landingpre.html">PHOENIX 
>LANDER NEARS ITS MARTIAN DESTINATION</a>
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><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/phoenix/080521edl.html">LANDING 
>TIMELINE</a>
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><a 
>href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0805/22marshotsprings/">YELLOWSTONE-LIKE 
>HOT SPRING DEPOSITS FOUND ON MARS</a>
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><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0805/21supernova/">SCIENTISTS 
>WITNESS A ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME EVENT</a>
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><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0805/21littleredspot/">MIGHTY 
>WINDS BLOW IN JUPITER'S LITTLE RED SPOT</a>
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