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| Priming the Human Primate |
| Topic: Origin & Evolution of Life |
02/19/05 |
| Sharing ninety-nine percent of a chimpanzee's DNA code does not tell the story of its distance from humans, according to a new report in Science Magazine. The code itself is just part of the story. The cut points or hotspots that combine mates to yield the next generation may determine the difference between species. |
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| High Voltage Mars |
| Topic: Mars |
02/07/05 |
| Meteorites and comets should have delivered vast amounts of organic chemicals to Mars, yet the Viking mission found no organics in the red soil. A new hypothesis by Sushil Atreya suggests how dust storms may zap away any chances for life on the martian surface. |
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| Clockwork Orange Planet |
| Topic: Mars |
01/24/05 |
| As the MER rovers blow out the candle on their one-year anniversary, they continue to make new discoveries on the Red Planet. How long they'll keep running is an open question, but NASA has several programs in the works for an encore. |
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| Lighting Up the Flammable Moon |
| Topic: Titan |
01/21/05 |
| Titan is a world where bits of muck continually fall out of the smoggy sky, blanketing the frozen surface like dark gooey snow. Squalls of methane rain periodically wash the surface clean, sweeping the organic gunk into rivers. |
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| Titan: Stranger to the Familiar |
| Topic: Titan |
01/21/05 |
| When Titan was viewed beneath its hazy atmosphere, a new world appeared with a mixture of the strange and familiar. Some compared the landscape of pebbles to what has appeared on Mars. Others saw the clouds or speckled dark regions as indicative of methane rain or even surf. |
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| Lakefront Landing in Crème Brûlée |
| Topic: Titan |
01/15/05 |
| For the first time, humans have gotten a close-up look at Titan, the planet-sized moon. Huygens, scientists say, has landed in soil with the consistency of wet sand or clay. |
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| Titan Close Up |
| Topic: Titan |
01/14/05 |
| The European Space Agency has released the first 3 of several hundred images captured by the Huygens probe during its descent through the atmosphere of Saturn's giant moon Titan. They reveal a world of diverse landforms, shaped at least in part by fluid erosion. |
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| Huygens, Phone Home |
| Topic: Titan |
01/14/05 |
| Huygens appears to be on track for its historic descent through Titan's atmosphere later today. The first of Huygens' images is expected to arrive on Earth shortly after 5:00 pm GMT (11:00 am EST). |
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| Rendezvous with Titan |
| Topic: Titan |
01/13/05 |
| For nearly a decade, scientists around the world have been waiting patiently for the European Space Agency's Huygens probe to arrive at its destination: Saturn's giant moon Titan. |
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| Comet Blaster Blasts Off |
| Topic: Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids |
01/12/05 |
| The Deep Impact spacecraft launched today and is now on its way to a rendezvous with comet Tempel 1. On July 4th, a specially designed impact spacecraft will detach from the mothership and crash head-on into the comet. |
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