Lunar Ice: 'Cold Traps' Eyed for Exploration
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BOULDER, COLORADO -- Think    of it as some sort of extraterrestrial axiom: Look for places on a celestial    body where the Sun doesn't shine.
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Lake Vostok, an Antarctic freshwater lake buried by 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) of ice, may host a diverse community of microbial life-forms, scientists say.
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A probable active glacier is identified on the surface of Mars for the first time.
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Rivals for lunar conquest four decades ago, Russia hopes to join the U.S. moon exploration program with technology and know-how, a Russian space agency spokesman said Thursday.
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Saturn&#39;s largest moon Titan may have molten ice welling up to the surface from its warm interior, data from the Cassini spacecraft suggests.
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The surface of Saturn's moon Titan may be covered by thick drifts of combustible organic "snow" floating on lakes of liquid methane or water and ammonia ice flows, NASA scientists said on Friday.
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Findings in the Martian atmosphere by the European Mars Express spacecraft orbiting the red planet correspond to areas where the US Mars Odyssey spacecraft has detected possible water ice just beneath the surface.
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It is a desperately cold, forbidding landscape, where water ice becomes just another fist-sized chunk of stone, but scientists said Saturday Saturn's remote moon Titan may have one thing found nowhere else in the solar system besides Earth:  weather.
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Scientists are working on a tethering system that could help explorers with the prospect of walking on a surface without much sticking power.
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LOS ANGELES: New photographs from space suggest that water occasionally flows on the frigid surface of Mars, raising the tantalizing possibility that the Red Planet is hospitable to life, scientists reported.
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Scientists find many regions on Earth that once had permanent frozen ground are now experiencing a thaw.
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HOUSTON, Texas - NASA has decided to pursue a base on the Moon. The space agency rolled out today a strategy and rationale for robotic and human exploration of the Moon--determining that a lunar outpost is the best approach to achieve a sustained, human presence on the Moon.
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When the Cassini spacecraft&#39;s Huygens probe parachutes to the surface of the Saturn moon Titan on Jan. 14, it could splash into a lake, burrow into a powdery drift or slam onto rock-hard ice.
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Two giant slabs of ice are about to collide in Antarctica, possibly with spectacular results, say Nasa experts.
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NASA's proposed 2024 moon base will be a steppingstone to Mars, but it may also be a mining outpost. The moon is an abundant source of helium-3, a potent fuel for next-generation nuclear reactors. Trouble is, China, India and Russia have their eyes on it too. By John Lasker.
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Previously undiscovered lakes under Antarctica may help improve our understanding of the interaction between global warming and the melting icepack. Plus: New climate accord sought. By the Associated Press.
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The Cassini spacecraft has discovered three new lakes near the south pole of Saturn's moon Titan.  These strange bodies are filled not with water but liquid methane and ethane. Researchers are also studying a lake near Titan's north pole larger than Lake Superior.