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The World Through a Looking Glass
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| Topic: Missions |
09/03/12 |
| Summary: Don Pettit, member of the Expedition 31 crew, discusses the laboratory that humankind has built in orbit of the Earth. The International Space Station offers many unique conditions in which to study life's adaptation to the space environment. |
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NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Prepares for Trek to Ceres
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| Topic: Meteorites, Comets and Asteroids |
09/02/12 |
| Summary: NASA's Dawn spacecraft is preparing to leave the giant asteroid Vesta and start its two-and-a-half-year journey to the dwarf planet Ceres. |
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NASA Launches Mission to Radiation Belts
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| Topic: Spaceship Earth |
09/02/12 |
| Summary: NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes mission has launched from Cape Canaveral. The twin-spacecraft mission will study the radiation belts, providing important information about the connections between the Sun and the Earth. |
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The Kuiper Belt at 20
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| Topic: Outer Solar System |
09/01/12 |
| Summary: Planetary science is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the discovery of the Kuiper Belt. Since 1992, more than 1,000 objects have been discovered in this distant region of our solar system. |
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Astronauts Search for Life Underground
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
09/01/12 |
| Summary: A team of astronauts are taking part in a caving adventure designed to prepare them for spaceflight. While working in the confined space, the they will also search for unique cave-dwelling life while testing new equipment and scientific procedures. |
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Curiosity on the Move
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| Topic: Mars |
08/31/12 |
| Summary: NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has set off from its landing vicinity on a trek to a science destination about a quarter-mile (400 meters) away, where it may begin using its drill. |
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Merging the Biologic and the Electronic
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| Topic: Robotics & A.I. |
08/31/12 |
| Summary: Scientists have created a type of "cyborg" tissue by embedding a three-dimensional network of functional, bio-compatible nanoscale wires into engineered human tissues. |
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How Old are the First Planets?
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| Topic: Cosmic Evolution |
08/30/12 |
| Summary: Heavy elements - ‘metals' in astronomer-speak - are created within stars and then spewed out across the cosmos by supernovae. Scientists are now asking: when did the Universe have enough metals to start building planets? |
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There are Fewer Microbes than You Think
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| Topic: Extreme Life |
08/30/12 |
| Summary: A new study on the number of microbes living in ocean sediments has produced a result much lower than previous estimates. Even so, the new estimate is still staggering. |
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Multiple Planets around a Pair of Stars
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| Topic: New Planets |
08/29/12 |
| Summary: Astronomers have observed multiple planets orbiting two suns. The discovery shows that planets can form and persist in the stressful realm of a binary star. One gas giant planet in the system orbits the star pair within the system's potential 'habitable zone.' |
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