A German-built drill nicknamed “The Mole” will pound 16 feet into the Martian crust to take the temperature of the planet, while a sensitive French-built seismometer will detect any Marsquakes.
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"Mexican Sinkhole May Lead NASA to Jupiter" By Ceci Connolly - 0 views
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It may not show up on MapQuest, but NASA scientists are betting that the best route to Jupiter and its ice-crusted moon Europa runs through an underwater cavern in Mexico.
Star crust is 10 billion times stronger than steel - space - 14 April ... - 0 views
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On detection of gravitational waves - with dedication to Pacome...
NASA will send robot drill to Mars in 2016 - The Washington Post - 0 views
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slashdot describes the drill as "a self-driving mole developed by the German space agency (DLR)". This seems to be the drill: GEMS - a mole to explore the interior of Mars, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSE.2009.5278132. Interesting news for all the roots people :)
Underground oceans - 1 views
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Interesting report on water transport in deep see fault lines. Subduction can suck huge quantities of water of water underground where friction and pressure heat it up causing the mantle to partly melt which leads to volcanic activities around the fault zones. Not all the water would make it back up, leading to the possibility that there might be large quantities of water stored within the earths crust.
New evidence for oceans of water deep in the Earth @Science - 0 views
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Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of New Mexico report evidence for potentially oceans worth of water deep beneath the United States. Though not in the familiar liquid form-the ingredients for water are bound up in rock deep in the Earth's mantle-the discovery may represent the planet's largest water reservoir.
AGM2015: Antineutrino Global Map 2015 : Scientific Reports - 1 views
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Cool study about measuring antineutrino emissions in order to prospect composition of Earth's crust and mantle.
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