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  Mars Rovers Find New Evidence Of 'Habitable Niche'

  December 21, 2007 — Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity have found new evidence that the planet could once have sustained life. Measurements showed the soil to be about 90 percent amorphous silica -- a substance ... > full story
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  Mountains Discovered On Titan, Saturn's Largest Moon

  December 20, 2007 — Astronomers have discovered and analyzed mountains on Saturn's largest moon, additional evidence that it has some of the most earthlike processes of any celestial body in the solar system. Titan's ... > full story
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  Earliest Stage Of Planet Formation In Our Solar System Dated

  December 19, 2007 — Researchers have dated the earliest step in the formation of the solar system -- when microscopic interstellar dust coalesced into mountain-sized chunks of rock -- to 4,568 million years ago, within ... > full story
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  Supercomputers Offer New Explanation Of Tunguska Disaster

  December 18, 2007 — The stunning amount of forest devastation at Tunguska a century ago in Siberia may have been caused by an asteroid only a fraction as large as those postulated in previously published estimates, ... > full story
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  Deep Impact Spacecraft Heads For Comet Hartley 2

  December 15, 2007 — The Deep Impact spacecraft is heading to Comet Hartley 2 on a two-part extended mission known as EPOXI. The spacecraft will fly by Earth on New Year's Eve at the beginning of a more than ... > full story
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  Building Blocks Of Life Formed On Mars, Scientists Conclude

  December 11, 2007 — Organic compounds contain carbon and hydrogen and form the building blocks of all life on Earth. By analyzing organic material and minerals in the Martian meteorite Allan Hills 84001, scientists at ... > full story
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  Age-Old Mystery Of Missing Chemicals From Earth's Mantle May Be Solved

  December 5, 2007 — Observations about the early formation of Earth may answer an age-old question about why the planet's mantle is missing some of the matter that should be present. Earth is made from chondrite, very ... > full story
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  Travel Maps Of The Lunar North Pole

  December 5, 2007 — A new map shows the geography and illumination of the lunar north pole. The lunar poles are very interesting for future science and exploration of the Moon mainly because of their exposure to ... > full story
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  World's First HDTV Image Of 'Earth-Rise' Over Moon

  November 13, 2007 — The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) have successfully performed the world's first high-definition image taking of an Earth-rise by the lunar ... > full story
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  Rosetta Closes In On Earth -- A Second Time

  November 8, 2007 — ESA's comet chaser, Rosetta, is on its way to its second close encounter with Earth on Nov. 13. The spacecraft's operators are leaving no stones unturned to make sure Earth's gravity gives it the ... > full story

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