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NASA Research Suggests Mars Once Had More Water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean

By Dwayne Brown | NASA, Nancy Neal-Jones / Elizabeth Zubritsky | NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center on Mar 8, 2015 Featured, Science/Education

A primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean, according to NASA scientists who, using ground-based observatories, measured water signatures in the Red Planet’s atmosphere. Scientists have been searching for answers to why this vast water supply left the surface. Details of the observations and computations appear in Thursday’s edition of Science […]

NASA Beams Mona Lisa to Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at the Moon

By Nancy Neal-Jones / Elizabeth Zubritsky | NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center on Feb 3, 2013 Science/Education

As part of the first demonstration of laser communication with a satellite at the moon, scientists with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) beamed an image of the Mona Lisa to the spacecraft from Earth.