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Probing Question: Why does the Earth rotate?
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Aug 06, 2007 |
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We spend our lives on a spinning globe -- it takes only 24 hours to notice that, as night follows day and the cycle repeats. But what causes Earth to rotate on its axis?
Genesis Findings Solve Apollo Lunar Soil Mystery
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Nov 21, 2006 |
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Ever since astronauts returned from another world, scientists have been mystified by some of the moon rocks they brought back. Now one of the mysteries has been solved. "We learned a great deal about the sun ...
The Sky is Falling
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May 01, 2006 |
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Up on the Moon, the sky is falling. "Every day, more than a metric ton of meteoroids hits the Moon," says Bill Cooke of the Marshall Space Flight Center's Meteoroid Environment Office. They literally fall out ...
Scientist Explains Why Jupiter's Moon Europa Could Have Energetic Liquid Oceans
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 12, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists used to think that Jupiter and its moons - and most other bodies orbiting far from the Sun - were cold, icy, and probably barren. When the Voyager spacecraft flew by in the late ...
Jules Verne ATV reveals unexpected capabilities
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Jun 16, 2008 |
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Eleven weeks into its integrated service to the International Space Station, Jules Verne ATV has followed up its successful automatic docking on 3 April 2008 by achieving all its scheduled objectives - and ...
Climate catastrophes in the Solar System
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 26, 2007 |
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Earth sits between two worlds that have been devastated by climate catastrophes. In the effort to combat global warming, our neighbours can provide valuable insights into the way climate catastrophes affect ...
Mars Rovers Resume Driving
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Aug 27, 2007 |
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After six weeks of hunkering down during raging dust storms that limited solar power, both of NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have resumed driving.
Missing Black Hole Report: Hundreds Found!
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 25, 2007 |
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Astronomers have unmasked hundreds of black holes hiding deep inside dusty galaxies billions of light-years away.
Mars Rovers Sharpen Questions About Livable Conditions
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 15, 2008 |
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Like salt used as a preservative, high concentrations of dissolved minerals in the wet, early-Mars environment known from discoveries by NASA's Opportunity rover may have thwarted any microbes from developing ...
Russia hopes nuclear ship will fly humans to Mars
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Oct 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Russia should build a new nuclear-powered spaceship for prospective manned missions to Mars and other planets, the nation's space chief said Thursday.
LCROSS Impact Finds Water on the Moon
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The argument that the moon is a dry, desolate place no longer holds water. Secrets the moon has been holding, for perhaps billions of years, are now being revealed to the delight of scientists ...
Sun goes longer than normal without producing sunspots
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 09, 2008 |
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The sun has been laying low for the past couple of years, producing no sunspots and giving a break to satellites.
Asteroid Threatens to Hit Mars
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Dec 21, 2007 |
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Astronomers funded by NASA are monitoring the trajectory of an asteroid named 2007 WD5 that is expected to cross the orbital path of Mars early next year. Calculations by NASA's Near-Earth Object Office at the ...
Life on Mars theory boosted by new methane study
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Dec 08, 2009 |
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Scientists have ruled out the possibility that methane is delivered to Mars by meteorites, raising fresh hopes that the gas might be generated by life on the red planet, in research published tomorrow in Earth an ...
SETI Astronomer Envisions Technology Capable of Receiving ET Signals by 2032
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 14, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- SETI, (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Senior Astronomer Seth Shostak and host of the weekly radio show "Are We Alone," predicted during a recent conference in San Francisco that ...
