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Hot but Habitable?
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| Topic: New Planets |
09/04/12 |
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A new Super-Earth planet has been found in the stellar habitable zone of the red dwarf star Gliese 163. The planet receives more light from its parent star than Earth from the Sun, but it still might be habitable for life as we know it. |
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Moon's Craters May Have Patches of Ice
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
09/04/12 |
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Small patches of ice could make up at most five to ten percent of material in walls of Shackleton crater on the Moon. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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