Galaxies Astronomy Club
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We keep our star talk down to earth! Beginning stargazers, professional astronomers, armchair astronauts and the cosmologically curious are all invited to join us. Galaxies Astronomy Club was founded in 1994.
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7/15/15
Curiosity rover finds evidence of Mars' primitive continental crust
This is the first discovery of a potential "continental crust" on Mars. "Along the rover's path we have seen some beautiful rocks with large, bright crystals, quite unexpected on Mars" said Roger Wiens LOS ALAMOS, N.M., July 13, 2015-The ChemCam laser instrument on NASA's Curiosity rover has turned its beam onto some unusually light-colored rocks on Mars, and the results are surprisingly similar to Earth's granitic continental crust rocks.
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7/30/15
NASA's Curiosity Rover Eyes Weird Rock on Mars : DNews
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity went out of its way to investigate a rock the likes of which it has never seen before on the Red Planet. Measurements by Curiosity's rock-zapping ChemCam laser and another instrument revealed that the target, a chunk of bedrock dubbed Elk, contains high levels of silica and hydrogen, NASA officials said.
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8/19/15
India's Mangalyaan Mars Orbiter Returns Stunning Images of Red Planet's Rocky Surface
It's almost a year since India's Mangalyaan Mars Orbiter, the nation's first ever Martian space probe, successfully arrived at its destination. Since then, the spacecraft has been gathering an array of science data on Mars, exceeding expectations with every new piece of information it returns.
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