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Geotimes
January 2004
Megan Sever |
Unraveling the Chicxulub Case On the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, geologists are drilling one of Earth's three largest impact structures, hoping to reveal clues about a devastating event linked to the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.   |
Geotimes
March 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Cancun and Beyond Look beyond the typical vacation of lounging on the resort beaches of Cancun and be sure to venture south and explore some Maya ruins as well as the region's remarkable system of caves and sinkholes. |
Scientific American
May 16, 2005
Barry E. DiGregorio |
Doubts on Dinosaurs Yucatan impact crater may have occurred before the dinosaurs went extinct. |
Geotimes
March 2004
Megan Sever |
Extinction debate continues Did the Chicxulub impact off the Yucatan coast in Mexico kill the dinosaurs 65 million years ago? |
Geotimes
January 2004
C. Wylie Poag |
Coring the Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater An extraterrestrial impact 36 million years ago left a lasting impression in the Chesapeake Bay and continues to affect the region's environment today. |
Geotimes
October 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Debate Continues Over Dinosaur Demise Analysis of new core samples support previous research from that the Chicxulub meteor struck about 300,000 years prior to the K/T extinction event and, therefore, did not cause extinction of the dinosaurs. |
Geotimes
March 2005 |
An Elevated View of Earth After four years of compiling data from the space shuttle Endeavour, the largest, most detailed topographic map of the world is now complete... Book Reviews - Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak by Kenneth S. Deffeyes... etc. |
Geotimes
September 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Opportunity Reaches Martian Crater Cameras aboard NASA's Mars rover Opportunity captured the vast expanse of Victoria crater. |
Scientific American
March 13, 2005
Mark Alpert |
Lunar Science NASA's plan to establish a permanent lunar base and use the program's technology to prepare a human mission to Mars hinges on a risky prediction: that astronauts will find water ice in a permanently shadowed crater basin at one of the moon's poles. |
Popular Mechanics
January 18, 2008
Jennifer Bogo |
Inside NASA's Mega Flyby of Mercury's Dark Side NASA's new Messenger spacecraft will conduct a full scientific investigation of Mercury's surface. |
Science News
July 15, 2006 |
Science Safari: A Meteoroid Hits the Moon This NASA Web page describes observations of a recent meteoroid impact on the moon, which created a new crater. |
Popular Mechanics
September 24, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Water Found on Moon These images show a very young lunar crater on the side of the moon that faces away from Earth, as viewed by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper on the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. |
High on Adventure
April 2007
Vicki Andersen |
Roaming Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula One of the most distinctive pieces of real estate on Earth, the Yucatan Peninsula is home to an astonishing diversity of amazing archaeological sites, beautiful old Colonial cities, secluded coastlines, and luxurious beachfront resorts. |
Geotimes
July 2005
McFadden & Schultz |
Collision Course: Deep Impact The Deep Impact project will shed light on some fundamental scientific questions about comets, including what they are made of and how they formed. |
Geotimes
May 2005
Megan Sever |
Meteor Crater's Slow Impact New findings suggest that rather than one large meteorite striking the ground at a high velocity, a lower velocity, pancake-shaped swarm of meteorite pieces -- formed from the explosion a larger meteorite -- likely carved out Meteor Crater. |
Geotimes
January 2006
Megan Sever |
Sizing up a Crater New modeling of the impact of an Eocene extraterrestrial projectile in what is now the Chesapeake Bay shows that it was smaller than previously thought, and could help better predict the effects of future potential impacts. |
Geotimes
August 2004
Sara Pratt |
Burrowing K/T Survivors When it comes to the mass extinction that marked the Cretaceous/Tertiary (K/T) boundary 65 million years ago, what it all came down to, researchers say, is that only those who hid had a chance to survive. |
Popular Mechanics
January 5, 2010
Jeremy Jacquot |
The Top 4 Sites to Land on Mars and Their Biggest Mysteries Scientists at the Pasadena based NASA research center will decide within the next two years where to send the Mars Science Laboratory rover after it launches in the fall of 2011. |
National Defense
February 2016
Stew Magnuson |
Planetary Defense: A New Hot Market With little fanfare, NASA in January opened up its planetary defense coordination office with a mandate to identify potential chunks of rock hurdling toward Earth and to stop them if possible. |
