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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on the mend
After unexpectedly switching to its backup... |
| | news from space |
further adventures in interesting rocks
The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has... |
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| fire it up |
Remember Virgin Galactic—Sir Richard Branson’s
Scaled-Composites-powered venture to... |
| | mmm, carbon |
A meteorite which fell into Tagish Lake in Ontario, Canada in 2000
was recently analyzed and... |
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| | OCO no-go |
On Tuesday, February 24, NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory craft
was lost shortly after... |
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| 10,000 years of junk |
The accidental crash last week between a defunct Russian military
satellite and a U.S. Iridium... |
| | Hayabusa, come home |
After more than a year of coasting through space, Japan’s Hayabusa
space probe recently... |
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| Omid |
Iran has launched its first domesticly-built satellite into orbit,
according to numerous... |
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| fabulous methane |
New research using three ground-based telescopes has shown that
nearly 21,000 tons of methane... |
| | roar |
While sound doesn’t travel in space, radio waves can, and a team of
astronomers has... |
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| | if it walks like a duck |
While possessing a sophisticated array of soil-analysis tools, the
first solid evidence of ice... |
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| dig, dug |
After a rough start, the Phoenix Mars Lander is successfully
analyzing dirt samples dug up from... |
| | clumping |
While the robot arm on the Phoenix Mars Lander has successfully
delivered dirt to the lander, at... |
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| scoops and dumps |
On June 2, NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft lifted its first scoop of
Martian soil as a test of... |
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