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»» NASA Mars Phoenix Lander to Bake Ice-Rich Soil Next Week
[Friday, July 4, 2008] The next soil sample delivered to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander"s Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer (TEGA) will be ice-rich.
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»» Geologists push back date basins formed, supporting frozen Earth theory
[Friday, July 4, 2008] University of Florida geologists say they have found strong evidence that a half-dozen major basins in India were formed a billion or more years ago, making them at least 500 million years older than commonly thought.
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»» Arthur C. Clarke, A Visionary Astrobiologist
[Thursday, July 3, 2008] Arthur C. Clarke is best remembered for the saga 2001: A Space Odyssey, published 40 years ago. The driving force behind that novel and the screenplay was Stanley Kubrick, who had developed a fascination for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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»» NASA Spaceward Bound Pavilion Lake Status Report 1 July 2008
[Wednesday, July 2, 2008] "Tuesday AM dive. Deepworkers: Darlene Lim, Mike Gephardt. CapCom: Bernard
South, south basin the 15m and 30m contours."
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»» Exploding Asteroid Theory Strengthened by New Evidence Located in Ohio, Indiana
[Wednesday, July 2, 2008] Was the course of life on the planet altered 12,900 years ago by a giant comet exploding over Canada? New evidence found by UC Assistant Professor of Anthropology Ken Tankersley and colleagues suggests the answer is affirmative.
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»» Mars Sample Return: the next step in exploring the Red Planet
[Wednesday, July 2, 2008] ESA and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) will be co-hosting, in cooperation with NASA and the International Mars Exploration Working Group (IMEWG), an International Conference on 9 and 10 July 2008.
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»» NASA Mars Phoenix Scrapes to Icy Soil in Wonderland
[Saturday, June 28, 2008] NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander scraped to icy soil in the "Wonderland" area on June 26, confirming that surface soil, subsurface soil and icy soil can be sampled at a single trench.
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»» Cassini to Earth: 'Mission Accomplished, But New Questions Await!'
[Saturday, June 28, 2008] NASA's Cassini mission is closing one chapter of its journey at Saturn and embarking on a new one with a two-year mission that will address new questions and bring it closer to two of its most intriguing targets--Titan and Enceladus.
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»» Scientists confirm that parts of earliest genetic material may have come from the stars
[Saturday, June 28, 2008] Scientists have confirmed for the first time that an important component of early genetic material which has been found in meteorite fragments is extraterrestrial in origin, in a paper published on June 15, 2008
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»» Ancient mineral shows early Earth climate tough on continents
[Saturday, June 28, 2008] A new analysis of ancient minerals called zircons suggests that a harsh climate may have scoured and possibly even destroyed the surface of the Earth's earliest continents.
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