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Geotimes August 2004 Naomi Lubick	Slow Boat to a Small Planet For the first time in more than three decades, scientists are going to get a close-up view of Mercury, Earth's smallest neighbor and the rocky planet closest to the sun.
Popular Mechanics November 19, 2009 Stephen Ornes	This Is Not Your Grade School Solar System: Gallery What has changed in solar system imagery over the past few decades and what we can learn from it
Geotimes July 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Mercury's Gooey Center Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, has a large core, which scientists now know is partially molten and therefore could create a magnetic field around the planet.
Chemistry World September 30, 2011 Jon Cartwright	Messenger Sheds Light on Mercury's Formation NASA's Messenger spacecraft is bringing new understanding to the question of how Mercury formed. The new information looks set to rewrite theories about the birth of the solar system's smallest planet.
Popular Mechanics September 2006	Scientists Are Finding Life In Earth's Coldest, Hottest, Weirdest Places By creating an alternative life chemistry in the lab, astrobiologist Steven Benner hopes to uncover a formula for alien microbes. How five big questions about life on our planet are shaping the search for it on other worlds.
Chemistry World November 29, 2012 Jon Evans	Messenger spots Mercury performing organic chemistry Nasa's Messenger spacecraft has uncovered evidence that not only does water ice exist on the surface of the planet Mercury, but in many places this ice appears to be covered in a 10cm-thick layer of soot-like organic material.
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 2003 Golombek et al.	Landing the Mars Exploration Rovers Deciding where on Mars to land each of the two exploration rovers has occupied more than two years of research and analysis. With the help of the planetary sciences community, mission planners have narrowed the field from hundreds to just two.
Geotimes March 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Closing in on Mars A camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft returned its first four images to Earth, and astronomers say they were "thrilled" with the results.
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.
Wired November 24, 2008 Candice Chan	Mercury or Bust: Chasing Down the Galaxy's Fastest Planet In December, NASA's Messenger probe will make an orbit path around Mercury.
Geotimes November 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Comet Full of Fluff Investigations will turn up many clues as researchers have only started to sift through the data uncovered from the Deep Impact crater.
Geotimes December 2004	A Saturnian One-Two Punch: Flybys of Titan and Dione On Monday, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft flew by Titan only 1,200 kilometers above the moon's surface. It was the second such flyby of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, since the spacecraft began orbiting Saturn on June 30.
Geotimes July 2007 Carolyn Gramling	X-ray Eyes in the Sky Scientists are working on the next generation of low-orbiting satellites that they hope will see far past the Earth's surface and into its interior, to better understand the structure and composition of Earth's crust, mantle and core.
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.
Popular Mechanics May 27, 2008 Joe Pappalardo	Phoenix Lander Doesn't Crash, Snaps Pix of Mars (With Gallery!) NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander successfully touched down on Sunday night in an unexplored region near the Martian north pole.
Geotimes January 2005 Sara Pratt	Frozen Volcanism on Titan In late October, the synthetic aperture radar on the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft penetrated Titan's atmosphere of organic smog and captured images of the surface, revealing features that resemble lava domes and lava flows.
Popular Mechanics December 2006 David Noland	The Threat is Out There More than 100,000 asteroids hurtle past our planet. But only one -- that we know of -- may hit us in the next 30 years.
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Barry E. DiGregorio	No Asteroid Impact on Mars After All The expected asteroid impact would have let scientists study crater formation and underlying Martian geology.
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 September 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Opportunity Reaches Martian Crater Cameras aboard NASA's Mars rover Opportunity captured the vast expanse of Victoria crater.
Geotimes December 2005 Kathryn Hansen	New View of a Saturnian Moon More than 250 years after astronomers first discovered Saturn's moon Hyperion, the odd celestial body is still presenting surprises. A closer-than-ever view of the moon revealed a heavily cratered surface, which looks remarkably like a sponge.
Geotimes January 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Stardust Landing a Smashing Success Seven years after its launch, NASA's Stardust spacecraft concluded its 4.6-billion-kilometer roundtrip journey to fly through the tail of a comet and collect dust samples, which astronomers hope will offer insight about the formation of our solar system.
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.
Geotimes January 2005 Naomi Lubick	Bombing a Comet Yesterday at 1:47 p.m. EST, NASA successfully launched a rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., carrying the Deep Impact spacecraft toward its rendezvous with a comet.
Geotimes February 2004 Naomi Lubick	Mars update: a pixel at a time The two rovers on Mars are on the move. Spirit, after 10-day lapse in memory, now functions again after efforts by Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) scientists. Its twin explorer, Opportunity, has been traveling in its own crater, halfway around the planet.
Wired December 2004 Patrick Di Justo	Mysteries of the Cosmos The top 13 places to explore in outer space.
Chemistry World July 27, 2015 Katrina Kramer	A space traveller's guide to the solar system Mark Thompson will take you on a holiday around our solar system in his new book, A space traveler's guide to the solar system -- a journey that promises to be both terrifying and awe-inspiring.
IEEE Spectrum August 2011 Mason Peck	Exploring Space with Chip-sized Satellites The future of space exploration will include swarms of tiny spacecraft.
IEEE Spectrum December 2012 Toth & Turyshev	Finding the Source of the Pioneer Anomaly Thirty years ago, the first spacecraft sent to explore the outer solar system started slowing unexpectedly. Now we finally know what happened
Popular Mechanics March 3, 2008 Brian Lisi	Satellite Snaps Multiple Avalanches on Northern Cliffs of Mars NASA's long observation of the Red Planet has rarely sent home as stunning an in-progress geological change as this: not one, but four avalanches tumbling from the Martian north pole.
Geotimes August 2007 Carolyn Gramling	More on Mars The last few months have held many new discoveries on Mars, including new images of the planet's landslides, caves and polar geysers from the Mars rover, which are giving scientists a closer look at the red planet than ever before.
AskMen.com	Earth-Like Planet Found Astronomers have finally found a place outside our solar system where there's a firm place to stand -- if only it weren't so broiling hot.
Popular Mechanics April 10, 2006 Benjamin Chertoff	NASA Announces New Mission to the Moon NASA uses Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter EELV launch vehicle as a lunar impactor in search for water ice in moon's poles.
Geotimes March 2006	Liftoff for New Horizons After a one-day delay due to windy weather, the New Horizons spacecraft successfully launched Jan. 19 aboard an Atlas V rocket, en route to Pluto. Scientists hope that the mission will drastically increase what is known about the faraway planet.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	NASA's New Spacecraft Will Touch The Sun Scientists at NASA and Johns Hopkins University are working on a space probe that will literally touch the surface of the sun.
Popular Mechanics September 2008 Michael Milstein	Inside NASA's Plan to Bomb the Moon and Find Water Water is a key ingredient in the agency's plans to establishing a permanent outpost there because it can be broken down into oxygen for lunar bases and fuel for rockets.
Scientific American May 8, 2006 Graham P. Collins	Chaos in the Crater Welcome to the Vredefort Crater, a real Bermuda Triangle about 100 kilometers southwest of Johannesburg. It is the oldest and largest impact remnant on the planet, created by an asteroid about two billion years ago.
Geotimes January 2004 Lisa M. Pinsker	Impacts in Space and on Earth: An Interview with Carolyn Shoemaker Carolyn Shoemaker has discovered more comets than anyone else alive today. Under the tutelage of her late husband, Carolyn learned how to identify these objects both in the sky and on the ground.
Geotimes April 2003 Lisa M. Pinsker	Seeing Chicxulub A new map of the Yucatan from NASA shows for the first time the 180-kilometer wide crater left behind after a giant impact that researchers believe killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007	Lockheed Martin Instrument to Monitor Solar Eruptions on Latest NASA Sun Mission Data from spacecraft instruments will allow scientists to construct the first ever three-dimensional views of the Sun, providing a new perspective on Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs).
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 William Stone	Mining the Moon How the extraction of lunar hydrogen or ice could fuel humanity's expansion into space
AskMen.com	Water On The Moon NASA says a spacecraft that was intentionally crashed into the moon has turned up the best evidence yet of water.
Geotimes September 2003 Naomi Lubick	Final mission for Galileo A small, sturdy spacecraft known as Galileo will plunge into Jupiter's atmosphere this Sunday at about 4 p.m. EST, after eight surprisingly productive years of observing the giant gassy planet and its moons.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005 John McHale	The Moon, Mars and beyond... The Space Shuttle program is due to be replaced by the Crew Exploration Vehicle.
TIME Asia June 28, 2010 Christopher Shay	The Moment The Japanese space program confirmed on June 10 it had unfurled the first interplanetary solar sail, powering its spacecraft IKAROS.
Geotimes November 2006 Megan Sever	Forest Fires Release Mercury The most familiar source of mercury in the atmosphere is coal plants. But a hidden mercury threat is lurking as Earth warms: peatlands in the boreal forest regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
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.
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.