... Recent photographs by the spacecraft Mars Global Surveyor, currently in orbit around Mars, show features unusual for Mars yet similar to a dried pond on Earth. ... As a central star of a binary system aged, it threw off its outer envelopes of gas in a strong stellar wind. ... Solar Flares Cause Sun Quakes . ... The quake was the first ever recorded on the Sun, but only because astronomers have only recently figured out when and how to find them using the orbiting SOHO spacecraft. ...