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Space NASA rovers Spirit and Opportunity may still have big achievements ahead as they approach the fifth anniversaries of their memorable landings on Mars.
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Space Different wavelengths of light provide new information about the Orientale Basin region of the moon in a new composite image taken by NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper, a guest instrument aboard the Indian Space Research Organization’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft.
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Space Satellites that were designed to measure sea level over the world’s oceans can serve a valuable purpose over land, a new study has found. Researchers used satellite to measure the height and extent of flooding in North America, South America, and Asia.
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Space It’s a tie! The new record-holder for dimmest known star-like object in the universe goes to twin “failed” stars, or brown dwarfs, each of which shines feebly with only one millionth the light of our sun.
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Space NASA is using powerful computers and software programs to design the rocket that will carry crew and cargo to space after the space shuttle retires. But those computers will have their work checked the old-fashioned way with the first of several uncrewed demonstration launches beginning in 2009.
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Space The ancient climate change on Mars was caused by regular variation in the planet’s tilt, or obliquity, according to new research. On Earth, similar “astronomical forcing” of climate drives ice-age cycles.
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