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Curious About Life: Interview with Dawn Sumner
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| Topic: Mars |
02/28/13 |
| Summary: Dawn Sumner helps interpret the visual data that Curiosity rover sees with its cameras. In this interview, she reveals why Curiosity's first images of Mount Sharp made her cry. |
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Astronomers Calculate Origins of Russian Meteor
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| Topic: Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids |
02/27/13 |
| Summary: A team of reseearchers have used triangulation and two videos to determine the origins of the space rock that exploded over Russia. |
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Target: Asteroid Didymos
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| Topic: Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids |
02/27/13 |
| Summary: A target has been selected for the proposed Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment mission (AIDA). AIDA will intercept Didymos as the asteroid makes its closest approach to Earth in 2022. |
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Mercury's Ancient Magma Ocean
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| Topic: Mercury |
02/26/13 |
| Summary: Scientists have partially reconstructed Mercury's history over billions of years, revealing that the planet may have harbored a large, rolling ocean of magma. |
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Vibrant Mix of Sea Life at Extreme Depths
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
02/26/13 |
| Summary: The first results from a record-setting expedition into the world's deepest points, including the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench, has revealed previously unexplored ecosystems in the cold, dark, and highly pressurized depths. |
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Russian Meteor Created a Huge Infrasonic Blast
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| Topic: Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids |
02/25/13 |
| Summary: Infrasonic waves from the meteor that broke up over Russia's Ural mountains last week were the largest ever recorded by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization's International Monitoring System. |
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Detecting Life on Planets that Orbit White Dwarf Stars
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| Topic: Alien Life |
02/25/13 |
| Summary: A white dwarf is a dead star that slowly cools down until it fades into oblivion. Yet it has been predicted that habitable planets can orbit a white dwarf. If we can somehow detect these planets, would we also be able to spot signs of life? |
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Dodging the Extinction Bullet
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
02/24/13 |
| Summary: Biologists have found that the mutation that helps an organism survive in the harshest environment is often dependent on a "relay team" of other mutations that came before, mutations that emerge only as conditions worsen at gradual and moderate rates. |
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Instruments Chosen for Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter
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| Topic: Jupiter System |
02/24/13 |
| Summary: The JUpiter ICy moons Explorer mission, JUICE, will carry a total of 11 scientific experiments to study the gas giant planet and its large ocean-bearing moons. |
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Radar Movie of Asteroid Flyby
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| Topic: Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids |
02/23/13 |
| Summary: NASA scientists have released an initial sequence of radar images of asteroid 2012 DA14 that was obtained on the night of Feb. 15/16, 2013 using the Deep Space Network antenna. |
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