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ESA - Cassini-Huygens - Huygens descent timeline: "Timeline of expected events during the Huygens descent to the surface of Titan on 14 January 2005."

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top ten space songs

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EducationGuardian.co.uk | Higher | Space probes feel cosmic tug of bizarre forces: "Something strange is tugging at America's oldest spacecraft. As the Pioneer 10 and 11 probes head towards distant stars, scientists have discovered that the craft - launched more than 30 years ago - appear to be in the grip of a mysterious force that is holding them back as they sweep out of the solar system.

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Space's largest window is built: "The largest window built for use in space has been completed, promising to give astronauts a spectacular view from the International Space Station. The 80cm-wide window is one of seven fitted to an observation dome called Cupola, which will be attached to the ISS in January 2009. Cupola has six trapezoid-shaped side windows around

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HoustonChronicle.com - Pilots will help bring Genesis capsule to soft landing: "In a harrowing feat high over the Utah desert Wednesday, two helicopter stunt pilots will try to snatch a floating space capsule that holds 'a piece of the sun' and bring it safely down. Their biggest fear: What if they flub it on live TV? And that's entirely possible. The pilots rate it 8 or 9 on a difficulty scale

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News: "Hurricane Frances did more damage to the Kennedy Space Center than any other storm in history, tearing an estimated 1,000 exterior panels from a giant building where space vehicles are assembled, officials said Monday. No space shuttles were inside the 525-foot-high building, a familiar landmark at the space center. But center director James Kennedy said he feared the damage could set

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EducationGuardian.co.uk | Higher | Antarctic craters reveal asteroid strike: "Scientists using satellites have mapped huge craters under the Antarctic ice sheet caused by an asteroid as big as the one believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs 65m years ago. Professor Frans van der Hoeven, from Delft University in the Netherlands, told the conference that the evidence showed that an asteroid

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Big shuttle repairs not possible: "Space shuttle astronauts will fly next year without the ability to repair in orbit the type of damage that destroyed the Columbia vehicle in February 2003. Flying foam debris on launch punched a 15-25cm opening in the shuttle's left wing, resulting in catastrophic heating of the airframe on its return to Earth. The US space agency

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Bananas could power Aussie homes: "Australian engineers have created an electricity generator fuelled by decomposing bananas, and hope to build a full size fruit-fired power station. At present, much of Australia's annual banana crop goes to waste, because the fruit are too bruised or small. But rather than just letting them rot, the researchers would like to put the

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Duke's Vomit Comet Crew: "Through the NASA Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program (RGSFOP), four juniors from Duke University: John Fang, Isaac Chan, Dan Choi, and Gary Sing, have the chance to design and perform a study on the effects of microgravity (nearly zero-g) on a subject of their own choosing aboard the KC-135A, a.k.a. NASA's "Vomit Comet." This blog will provide

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MarsBlog

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Guardian Unlimited | Today's issues | Y-fronts: "Even spacemen have issues with dirty underwear. There are no washing machines in space so Nasa has deliberated over what its astronauts should do with the offending garments. It's a question of feeding them to bacteria, growing plants with them, sending them into orbit or simply reusing them."

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Guardian Unlimited Shopping | Motoring | Future of motoring is dolphin-shaped: "Its designers say the hydrogen-powered car, whose only emission is water and which is said to be capable of circling the globe using less power than your average lightbulb, heralds a new age of clean, quiet motoring. In 15-20 years, hydrogen powered vehicles could be commonplace on the roads, they say. But only the

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Guardian Unlimited | Life | Space travel goes sailing: "US and Russian scientists are planning the ultimate in fuel-economy travel: they hope to launch a space sailing ship driven only by the pressure of sunlight later this year."

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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | 09/08/04 Interactive. Messenger space probe to Mercury

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Scotsman.com News - Sci-Tech - Stormy solution to rain crisis: "WITH water increasingly scarce in its parched and heavily populated north-eastern plain, China has become the world’s leading rainmaker, using aircraft, rockets and even anti-aircraft guns to seed the clouds for precious moisture. The hunt has become so intense that rival regions sometimes compete for clouds sailing across the sky.

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Solar System could be 'unique': "In the past 10 years, over 100 extrasolar systems (planetary systems orbiting stars other than the Sun) have been discovered from the wobble in their host stars, caused by the motion of the planets themselves. But none of them seem to resemble our Solar System very much. In fact, these exoplanets have several important

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Wired News: Probe Set to Test Einstein Theory: "NASA's Gravity Probe B spacecraft could begin testing Einstein's general theory of relativity as early as this week, according to mission controllers at Stanford University. The probe, said to be one of the most precise scientific instruments ever assembled, was initially scheduled to begin taking measurements within 45 to 60 days of its April 20

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Wired News: Da Vinci Gambles on X Prize: "It's a new frontier for Canada -- and for the online gaming industry. Toronto's da Vinci Project on Thursday unveiled its Ansari X Prize craft, called Wild Fire, and announced that it will try to capture the $10 million cash jackpot with flights in October. Da Vinci project leader and Wild Fire pilot Brian Feeney said the first launch is slated from an

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news@nature.com - Could astronauts sleep their way to the stars?: "The state of suspended animation that astronauts enter during long-haul space flights is a staple of science-fiction movies. But now the European Space Agency (ESA) wants to turn it into reality. Agency staff are planning future research into the possibility of inducing a hibernation-like state in humans. 'We are not sure whether

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DiverseWorks ||| Programs : "Daniel Adame: Voyage Mars Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 3, 4 and 5, 2005 @ 8 PM DiverseWorks Theater A multi-media performance that investigates Mars as a conceptual starting point to explore cultural/social issues including: war, power, masculinity, space travel, red, and destination. Adame's highly energetic choreography and movement and unique

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Electric cars that pay | csmonitor.com: "So, you're thinking of buying one of those gas-electric hybrid cars like the Toyota Prius or Honda Insight. They're trendy, conserve fuel, and reduce pollution. But to really go 'green,' some entrepreneurs and academics say, you should try a Volkswagen Jetta. Not just any Jetta. A dark blue one that a California electric-car company has modified so that

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remembering rebecca :: july 2004"'There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than is dreamt of in your philosophy.' A recent study funded by NASA's Earth Science Department shows that the tiny sea plants release high quantities of cloud-forming compounds on days when the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays are especially strong. The compounds evaporate into the air through a series of

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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Nasa launches Mercury mission: "Nasa this morning launched the first mission to Mercury for 30 years in an attempt to solve some of the mysteries of the closest planet to the sun. The Messenger probe set off on a 5bn mile, six and a half year journey at 2.16am (0716BST) from Florida's Cape Canaveral air force station. Liftoff came a day later than had been

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News: "The astronauts aboard the International Space Station will make a spacewalk next week to prepare for the arrival of the first cargo craft to be sent to the orbiting outpost by the European Space Agency, NASA said on Wednesday. "

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News: "A meteorite from Mars has been discovered in Antarctica, one of only about 30 known martian space rocks on Earth. 'We've gotten something like 13,000 meteorites from Antarctica and this is only the sixth one from Mars,' Timothy McCoy, curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian Institution, said by telephone on Wednesday. The rest of the known martian meteorites on this planet were found

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HoustonChronicle.com - Private spacecraft to fly again in September: "The SpaceShipOne craft that cracked the commercial space flight barrier will be launched in September in a bid to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize, pioneering aviation designer Burt Rutan announced today."

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HoustonChronicle.com - NASA fuel tank redesign addresses foam problem: "The foam that detached on liftoff and led to the space shuttle Columbia disaster last year has been removed from redesigns of the fuel tanks that launch shuttles into space, NASA officials said. NASA approved a redesign that installs heaters in place of some of the foam, which is applied to the fuel tanks as a shield against

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The New York Times > Science > More Astronauts Approved for Space Station: "Nations involved in the International Space Station have agreed to increase the number of astronauts working aboard and to look at ways to accelerate the launching of Japanese and European research modules, program officials said Friday."

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The Globe and Mail: "The international Cassini spacecraft has taken new images of Saturn's two-faced moon Iapetus, possibly offering clues to why the moon has a dark hemisphere and another that is bright, scientists said Thursday. Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory hope Cassini's observations of the mysterious moon help determine where the dark material comes from. The spacecraft

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Ammonia on Mars could mean life: "Ammonia survives for only a short time in the Martian atmosphere so it must be getting constantly replenished. There are two possible sources: either active volcanoes, none of which have been found yet on Mars, or microbes."

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Grant's Blog

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The Australian: Hawking backflip defies gravity [July 16, 2004]: "Next week at a conference in Dublin, the wheelchair-bound Oxford University academic will recant his controversial 'black-hole paradox'. It's an idea he first proposed in 1976 and involves the complicated physics of black holes, or dense objects such as what remains when some stars run out of fuel and collapse under their own

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VOANews.com: "After three failed launch attempts, the U.S. space agency NASA has finally sent the Aura satellite into orbit. A Boeing Delta 2 rocket carrying Aura blasted off from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base early Thursday. The $785 million satellite separated from the rocket an hour later and entered orbit at 700 kilometers above the Earth. Aura is designed to monitor the planet's

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Guardian Unlimited | Today's issues | Useful excrement: "During a two-year expedition to Mars, a crew of six astronauts can generate over six tons of waste. The current protocol is to ship the faeces back to Earth. Nasa, however, are funding research to create a membrane microbial fuel cell that would recycle the excrement to provide drinking water, fertilizer and electricity. A waste of space?

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The New York Times > Movies > Critic's Notebook: For Asimov, Robots Were Friends. Not So for Will Smith.: "The movie's retro material, then, may be a kind of a wink at its antique source. But in his book, Asimov also declared war on those who think about robots with fear and trembling, dreading the dangers of technological change. The new movie, though, often seems to oppose Asimov's view.

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HoustonChronicle.com - Panel urges using shuttle crews for Hubble repairs: "On Tuesday, a congressionally approved panel of 20 top scientists concluded a robotic solution would rely on an array of technologies so challenging, the space agency was at least a year away from knowing which would work. 'The committee has recommended that NASA keep its options open, that NASA should not preclude a

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Why Does Saturn Have Rings? - And how come Earth has none? By Brendan I. Koerner: "Size is a big reason. Saturn is 95 times more massive than Earth and thus boasts more moons and more gravitational pull, both of which are vital to ring formation. Moons, in particular, are the critical factor in the creation of Saturn's 'dust rings,' which are similar to the wispy circles that also surround

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USATODAY.com - NASA mulls cash prizes for private spaceflight milestones: "NASA is considering going where it has never gone before, offering cash prizes for space exploration achievements. In the wake of the first private, manned mission to space earlier this week, a NASA official said the federally funded space agency might offer awards for commercial spaceflight milestones. According to

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Popular Science | SpaceShipOne Soars: "Near the end of the climb, one of the electrical actuators that controls the craft in pitch and roll apparently failed. When Melvill called for a pitch maneuver that should have moved the left and right wing controls, only one of them moved, and SpaceShipOne rolled to the left, skidding 20 miles off course in seconds. 'I really thought I had a big problem,'

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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Tiny craft takes big step in new space race: "It was not much bigger than the four-wheel drives gathered in the dust to watch, but a small, oddly shaped white machine made history yesterday when it soared through the Californian sky to become the world's first commercial craft in space."

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CNN.com - Private craft soars into space, history - Jun 21, 2004: "The man who became the first person to pilot a privately built craft into space called his flight 'almost a religious experience' after his safe landing Monday morning."

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News: "The stuff of pulp science fiction and children's adventure books could become reality this week high over the Mojave Desert, when an innovative rocket plane points its nose toward space."

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CNN.com - Mars rover Spirit develops wheel problem: "PASADENA, California (AP) -- The Mars rover Spirit has developed a problem with one of its six wheels, but NASA officials said Tuesday they believe the robot geologist can continue working."

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CNN.com - Private spacecraft to launch June 21: "The world's first privately built spacecraft is scheduled to leave Earth on June 21 and -- if successful -- usher in a new era of spaceflight for private enterprise."

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Wired News: Commission: NASA Needs to Change: "NASA could cede its dominance over spacecraft launches to corporations in the private sector, if a White House panel has its way. In a report released Wednesday, the President's Commission on Implementation of U.S. Space Exploration Policy said the 'commercialization of space should become the primary focus' of NASA's vision for the future. The

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The New York Times > Week in Review > For Scientists, It's Hard to Love Venus: "Although Venus was once regarded as Earth's sister planet because it is almost the same size, planetary scientists have of late given it short shrift, instead devoting attention and a parade of space probes in the opposite direction, toward Mars. Venus' 900-degree, sulfuric acid-laden atmosphere not only makes it a

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The New York Times > Science > Private Space Travel? Dreamers Hope a Catalyst Will Rise From the Mojave Desert: "ne week from today, from a runway in a barren reach of the Mojave Desert 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles, Burt Rutan will try sending a pilot higher than anyone has ever flown in a private plane. A longtime designer of innovative aircraft, he plans to shoot his creation, a rocket

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Satellite images 'show Atlantis': "Satellite photos of southern Spain reveal features on the ground appearing to match descriptions made by Greek scholar Plato of the fabled utopia."

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The New York Times > Science > Rover Unearths More Evidence of Water on Mars, Scientists Say: "The Mars rover Spirit has dug up more evidence of water on the red planet, scientists said yesterday. At a news conference at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., Dr. Steven W. Squyres, the mission's principal investigator and a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, said the

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Autos: "These new diesels are not like the rattling, coughing, smoke-spewing slugs of the past. The E320 CDI, for example, can make it to 60 mph from a stop in less than 7 seconds, yet returns 40 mpg--better fuel efficiency than most of today's compact-size economy cars. The diesel V-10 Touareg should offer a no-compromises SUV with performance as good as or better than V-8 gasoline engines--but

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Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Skies clear for historic Venus transit: "Millions of people across the world today were able to watch the transit of Venus, with clear skies over most of Britain granting astronomers a good view of the rare cosmic event. At 0619 BST the Earth's closest planetary neighbour began to cut a diagonal path across the face of the sun. Appearing as a black disc 30

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The New York Times > Science > Space & Cosmos > Free From Gravity, These Students Taste Outer Space: "Such is life aboard KC-135, the four-engine military version of the Boeing 707 that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration uses to train astronauts for weightlessness, to test in-space technology, to help Hollywood shoot weightless scenes - and to let dozens of engineering students

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The Hindu : A down-to-earth approach is the need of the hour: "IT HAPPENED 121 years ago. After tomorrow's celestial occurrence of the transit of Venus between the sun and the earth, the next major transit will take place after 121 years and the minor transit after eight years. Venus orbits around the sun faster than the earth, which also has a longer distance to cover. The transits of the

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Historic Space Launch: "A privately-developed rocket plane will launch into history on June 21 on a mission to become the world’s first commercial manned space vehicle. Investor and philanthropist Paul G. Allen and aviation legend Burt Rutan have teamed to create the program, which will attempt the first non-governmental flight to leave the earth’s atmosphere. SpaceShipOne will rocket to 100

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EducationGuardian.co.uk | Higher | Scientist defends mission to Mars: "The head of the ill-fated Beagle 2 mission to Mars today defended the project as an inquiry for British and European space agencies revealed its findings. Speaking ahead of a press conference at the Department of Trade and Industry, the mission's chief scientist, Professor Colin Pillinger, said the project had not been run '

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ANSARI X PRIZE: "The X PRIZE Foundation (XPF) and the New Mexico Office of Space Commercialization (NMOSC) have joined together to continue the quest for a future in which the general public will personally participate in space travel and share in its benefits. The first step is the ANSARI X PRIZE competition that challenges teams from around the world to be the first private commercial venture

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Data From Recent Test Flight of Private Spacecraft Released

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NightSky Friday - Satellite Spotting: See Dramatic Iridium Flares Now: "What Allen fortuitously saw was an 'Iridium flare,' caused by one in a new fleet of satellites that have been put into Earth orbit over the past several years; satellites that can briefly appear to flare to incredible brilliance. And you can spot them, too, especially if you take the time to find out when they're likely to

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The New York Times > Science > Space & Cosmos > Venus Returns for Its Shining Hour: "On June 8, people in the right places on Earth will be able to see Venus move across the face of the Sun in a kind of minieclipse that is visible twice every century or so. The last such occurrence, called a transit of Venus, was in 1882. It inspired an international effort to use the event to answer one of the

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New Scientist: "Hollywood now has one less disaster scenario to worry about. The Earth, it seems, will be safe when its magnetic field falters during the next reversal of its magnetic poles. A new model of the way the Earth interacts with the solar wind indicates that a replacement field will form in the upper atmosphere during the switch. Scientists had previously thought that the planet

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CNN.com - Remote medicine on frontier of space - May 10, 2004: "Technology developed for the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo moon programs called telemetry, or long-distance monitoring of vital signs, ended up saving lives in intensive care units. The instruments use computers and body sensors to monitor heart rate, respiration and brain activity. They became common in hospitals across the nation

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CNN.com - Private spaceship sets altitude record - May 13, 2004: "Aircraft designer Burt Rutan and his firm Scaled Composites took a giant leap early Thursday toward becoming the first private company to send a person into space. Scaled Composites, funded by Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen, set a new civilian altitude record of 40 miles in a craft called SpaceShipOne during a

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Wired News: Space Tug Could Save Hubble: "A new line of robotic spacecraft designed to tug wayward communications satellites back into their proper orbits could extend the life of the Hubble Space Telescope, according to the CTO of British aerospace firm Orbital Recovery. Set to launch in 2007, Orbital Recovery's first ConeXpress Orbital Life Extension Vehicle, or CX OLEV, will be equipped with

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The New York Times > Science > Space & Cosmos > A Dim Speck in Space With a Fantastic View: "een from Earth, Sedna, the recently discovered farthest known object in the solar system, is a dim speck. But what's the view from Sedna? NASA released an artist's painting answering this question. The Sun, eight billion miles away, is still the brightest object in Sedna's daytime sky. Venus, Earth and

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The New York Times > Science > New Crater Beckons Mars Rover: "erched on the edge of a 430-foot-wide crater, the Mars rover Opportunity has spied a new treasure trove of rocks that promise to tell a richer, deeper story of the planet's geological past. At a news conference yesterday at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., Dr. Steven W. Squyres, the mission's principal

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Without a Trace: Whereabouts of Beagle 2 Remain a Mystery: "Gone without a trace. The British-built Beagle 2 lander remains lost in action after attempting a landing on Mars late last year. The probe was ejected from the European Space Agency?s Mars Express Orbiter now circling the red planet. A Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) high-resolution view of the Beagle 2 landing

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When she dropped me off at the airport, Annie said "go save the world." That was supposed to be her calling, but she's a victim of her own success in making me aware of the glaring human needs that are unmet everyday on our planet. Now I find myself unable to stop thinking about the raw statistics: - 5 million people die every year because they don't have clean water and sanitation - 1.2

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It literally took my breath away the first time this popped up on my screen. It looks like you can just reach into the screen and pick up a rock! Space.com actually has a pretty good Mars photo article. It's concise and has a link to the high resolution photos. JPL had to temporarily remove the high res links due to heavy traffic. By the time you read this, the NASA web portal should have

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Another good site for getting straight to the latest pictures can be found at The Planetary Society, which also has a lot of great information about Mars. Now we're getting 3-D photos- these are made by combining the images from the two "eyes" of the rover. You'll need 3-D glasses to see them (I got mine from my National Geographic Mars book, put out after the Pathfinder landing). It's a little

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Yahoo! News - Space Station Air Pressure Dropping: "The international space station is experiencing a slow, steady drop in air pressure, and American and Russian flight controllers are investigating possible causes of the leak. Mission Control notified astronaut Michael Foale and cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri about the leak just before their bedtime late Monday afternoon. " Good thing they have

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The amazing folks at the Jet Propulsion Lab shot a rocket from earth last summer, aiming for Mars. After hundreds of millions of miles, every little part worked perfectly- the rocket motors, solar arrays, batteries, navigation instruments, parachute, retro rockets, _and_ finally the airbags. Now we have a robot field geologist about the size of a golf cart ready to roll onto the surface of Gusev

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I am spaceboy- although I am mostly grown up now, I hope I never lose the awe and wonder I held as a kid watching spaceships leave the shackles of gravity and blur the lines we make up between ourselves. There's something special and pure about our desire to leave everything we know and see what else is out there. I hope to share with you news, information, and my own reflections. I hope to keep

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