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| Up, Up and Away with Aerobots |
| Topic: Missions |
05/13/10 |
| Unmanned blimps or balloons flying for thousands of kilometers could offer a bird´s eye view of planets and moons. |
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| Seeing the Closest Aliens Will Take Centuries |
| Topic: Alien Life |
04/29/10 |
| As telescopes become more advanced, we´ll be able to see more details about planets orbiting other stars – including indications that those planets have life. However, it would probably take many centuries before we could actually see the aliens. |
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| Counting Titan´s Craters |
| Topic: Titan |
04/22/10 |
| Impact craters found on Titan could help scientists determine the age of this Earth-like moon and its potential for life. |
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| Dual Drill Designed for Europa´s Ice |
| Topic: Europa |
04/15/10 |
| NASA and the European Space Agency are sending a mission to study Jupiter and its moon Europa in 2020. There may be life in the moon´s ocean, but to find out a mission will have to be able to drill down through the overlying ice shell. |
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| A Cyborg Space Race |
| Topic: Robotics & A.I. |
04/05/10 |
| Who should explore space: robots or humans? Our ability to travel beyond Earth is hampered by the harsh conditions of space, but rather than let robots have all the fun, could cyborg technology allow humans to make greater strides into the final frontier? |
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| How to Respond When E.T. Says Hello |
| Topic: Alien Life |
04/01/10 |
| Scientists are studying the best ways to compose messages meant for alien eyes in case we ever do get the chance to communicate with extraterrestrials. |
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| Europa on Earth |
| Topic: Europa |
03/25/10 |
| Cracks in the icy shell of Jupiter´s moon Europa contain sulfur-rich material. An expedition to a sulfur spring in the Arctic could help solve some mysteries about Europa – including its potential for life. |
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| Life Without Water? |
| Topic: Titan |
03/18/10 |
| On Saturn´s giant moon Titan, it is so cold that water is frozen as hard as granite. And yet there is a complete liquid cycle of methane and ethane. Scientists wonder whether there could also be life. |
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| Avatars in Space |
| Topic: Robotics & A.I. |
03/15/10 |
| At this year's Oscars, there was a great deal of buzz surrounding the science fiction epic, Avatar. The movie focuses on human explorers virtually immersing themselves in the environment of a distant world through the eyes and body of an avatar. The movie may be science fiction, but the concepts behind avatars in space exploration are based in science fact. |
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