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  Water Could Flow on Mars, Model Suggests; Scientists Look at Melting and Evaporation of Frozen Brines

  October 22, 2012 — Researchers have created a model that might explain how water could produce the flow patterns seen by a spacecraft orbiting ... > full story
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  Potential Lunar and Martian Bases

  October 22, 2012 — Researchers in the UK have presented plans for an extraplanetary laboratory that will determine whether it will be possible to establish a base on the Moon, or potentially ... > full story
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  Astronomers Study 2-Million-Light-Year 'Extragalactic Afterburner'

  October 22, 2012 — Blasting over two million lights years from the centre of a distant galaxy is a supersonic jet of material that looks strikingly similar to the afterburner flow of a fighter jet, except in this case ... > full story
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  Astronomers Uncover a Surprising Trend in Galaxy Evolution

  October 19, 2012 — A comprehensive study of hundreds of galaxies observed by the Keck telescopes in Hawaii and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed an unexpected pattern of change that extends back 8 billion ... > full story
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  Hubble Sees Galaxy in a Spin

  October 19, 2012 — NGC 3344 is a glorious spiral galaxy around half the size of the Milky Way, which lies 25 million light-years distant. We are fortunate enough to see NGC 3344 face-on, allowing us to study its ... > full story
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  Mars Soil Sample Delivered for Analysis Inside Rover

  October 19, 2012 — NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has ingested its first solid sample into an analytical instrument inside the rover, a capability at the core of the two-year ... > full story
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  Poetry in Motion: Gemini Observatory Releases Image of Rare Polar Ring Galaxy

  October 18, 2012 — Polar-ring galaxies are peculiar objects. Astronomers have found only a handful of them, so not much is known about their origins. Most have an early-type spiral system, called a lenticular galaxy, ... > full story
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  NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement Observatory Completes First Dry Run

  October 18, 2012 — NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory satellite went through its first complete comprehensive performance test (CPT), beginning on Oct. 4, 2012 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight ... > full story
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  Giant Impact Scenario May Explain the Unusual Moons of Saturn

  October 17, 2012 — Among the oddities of the outer solar system are the middle-sized moons of Saturn, a half-dozen icy bodies dwarfed by Saturn's massive moon Titan. According to a new model for the origin of the ... > full story
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  Keck Observations Bring Weather of Uranus Into Sharp Focus

  October 17, 2012 — In 1986, when Voyager swept past Uranus, the probe’s portraits of the planet were “notoriously bland,” disappointing scientists, yielding few new details of the planet and its ... > full story

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