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Recipe for water: just add starlight
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09/09/2010 01:33 AM
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ESA's Herschel infrared space observatory has discovered that ultraviolet starlight is the key ingredient for making water in space. It is the only explanation for why a dying star is surrounded by a gigantic cloud of hot water vapour. (2010-09-03)
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System uses electrical trickery on the brain to induce realistic spaceflight effects
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09/09/2010 01:33 AM
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What does it feel like to return to Earth after a long stay in space? Until now, it has been difficult during astronaut training to realistically simulate the dizzying effects the human body can experience. (2010-08-25)
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Asteroid found in gravitational 'dead zone'
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09/09/2010 01:33 AM
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There are places in space where the gravitational tug between a planet and the Sun balance out, allowing other smaller bodies to remain stable. These places are called Lagrangian points. (2010-08-13)
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Caltech astronomer finds planets in unusually intimate dance around dying star
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09/09/2010 01:33 AM
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Hundreds of extrasolar planets have been found over the past decade and a half, most of them solitary worlds orbiting their parent star in seeming isolation. (2010-07-28)
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ASU Mars camera yields best Red Planet map ever
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09/09/2010 01:33 AM
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The best Mars map ever made is now available online for planetary scientists and armchair astronauts alike. And citizen scientists are invited to help make it even better. (2010-07-26)
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UT researchers discover water on the moon is widespread, similar to Earth's
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09/09/2010 01:33 AM
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Researchers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, are once again turning what scientists thought they knew about the moon on its head. (2010-07-22)
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Wet era on early Mars was global
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09/09/2010 01:33 AM
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Conditions favourable to life may once have existed all over Mars. Detailed studies of minerals found inside craters show that liquid water was widespread, not only in the southern highlands, but also beneath the northern plains. (2010-06-28)
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Brown Team Finds Widespread Glacial Meltwater Valleys on Mars
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09/09/2010 01:33 AM
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Planetary scientists have uncovered telltale signs of water on Mars - frozen and liquid - in the earliest period of the Red Planet's history. A new claim, made public this month, is that a deep ocean covered some of the northern latitudes. (2010-06-24)
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Caltech geologist investigates canyon carved in just 3 days in Texas flood
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09/09/2010 01:33 AM
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In the summer of 2002, a week of heavy rains in Central Texas caused Canyon Lake-the reservoir of the Canyon Dam-to flood over its spillway and down the Guadalupe River Valley in a planned diversion to save the dam from catastrophic failure. (2010-06-21)
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Rosetta's blind date with asteroid Lutetia
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09/09/2010 01:33 AM
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ESA's comet-chaser Rosetta is heading for a blind date with asteroid Lutetia. Rosetta does not yet know what Lutetia looks like up-close but beautiful or otherwise the two will meet on 10 July. (2010-06-16)
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Zooming in on an infant solar system
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09/09/2010 01:33 AM
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A team led by University of Arizona astronomer Joshua Eisner has observed in unprecedented detail the processes giving rise to stars and planets in nascent solar systems. (2010-06-14)
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New CU-Boulder study indicates an ancient ocean may have covered one-third of Mars
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09/09/2010 01:33 AM
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A vast ocean likely covered one-third of the surface of Mars some 3.5 billion years ago, according to a new study conducted by University of Colorado at Boulder scientists. (2010-06-14)
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New model is proposed to explain absence of organic compounds on surface of Mars
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09/09/2010 01:33 AM
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The ongoing search for evidence of past or present life on Mars includes efforts to identify organic compounds such as proteins in Martian soil, but their absence to date remains a mystery. (2010-06-11)
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The Earth and moon formed later than previously thought
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09/09/2010 01:33 AM
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The Earth and Moon were created as the result of a giant collision between two planets the size of Mars and Venus. Until now it was thought to have happened when the solar system was 30 million years old or approx. 4,537 million years ago. (2010-06-08)
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