Spaceship Earth
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Mar 23, 2014Changes in the sun’s energy output may have led to marked natural climate change in Europe over the last 1000 years.
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Mar 8, 2014MIT scientists identify a plasma plume that naturally protects the Earth against solar storms.
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Dec 12, 2013NASA's Juno spacecraft flew by Earth in October, building up speed for its journey to Jupiter. The spacecraft also captured an interesting picture of the Earth-Moon system.
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Nov 17, 2013Changes in solar activity have contributed no more than 10 per cent to global warming in the twentieth century, a new study has found.
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Nov 11, 2013Mysterious cosmic rays constantly bombard Earth from outer space. Now scientists find these energetic particles could limit where life as we know it might exist on alien planets.
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Sep 30, 2013Scientists have uncovered new information about the nature of the radiation belts that surround the Earth.
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Sep 19, 2013A new study shows that the production of nutrients essential to ocean health on Earth is tied to the cyclic wobbling of our planet on its axis.
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Jul 24, 2013Color and black-and-white images of Earth taken by two NASA interplanetary spacecraft on July 19 show our planet and its moon as bright beacons from millions of miles away in space.
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Apr 17, 2013Scientists have discovered that sediment in the deep-sea may hold radioactive iron from a supernova that happened 2.2 million years ago. The remnants of the stellar explosion may be preserved in fossilized remains of iron-loving bacteria.
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Mar 1, 2013NASA’s Van Allen Probes mission has discovered a previously unknown third radiation belt around Earth. The belts are critical regions for modern society, which is dependent on many space-based technologies.