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  Asteroid Craters on Earth Give Clues in Search for Life on Mars

  April 17, 2012 — Craters made by asteroid impacts may be the best place to look for signs of life on other planets, a study ... > full story
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  Designing the Interplanetary Web

  April 13, 2012 — Reliable Internet access on the Moon, near Mars or for astronauts on a space station? How about controlling a planetary rover from a spacecraft in deep space? These are just some of the pioneering ... > full story
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  NASA to Fly Atomic Clock to Improve Space Navigation

  April 12, 2012 — When people think of space technologies, many think of high-tech solar panels, complex and powerful propulsion systems or sophisticated, electronic guidance systems. Another critical piece of ... > full story
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  12-Mile-High Martian Dust Devil Caught in Act

  April 6, 2012 — A Martian dust devil roughly 12 miles high (20 kilometers) was captured whirling its way along the Amazonis Planitia region of Northern Mars on March 14. It was imaged by the High Resolution Imaging ... > full story
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  'Mount Sharp' on Mars Links Geology's Past and Future

  March 28, 2012 — One particular mountain on Mars, bigger than Colorado's grandest, has been beckoning would-be explorers since it was first sighted from orbit in the 1970s. Scientists have ideas about how it took ... > full story
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  Mars-Bound NASA Craft Adjusts Path, Tests Instruments

  March 26, 2012 — NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, halfway to Mars, adjusted its flight path March 26, 2012 for delivery of the one-ton rover Curiosity to the surface of Mars in ... > full story
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  Geologists Discover New Class of Landform -- On Mars

  March 22, 2012 — An odd, previously unseen landform could provide a window into the geological history of Mars, according to new research by geologists. They call the structures periodic bedrock ... > full story
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  Super-Earth Unlikely Able to Transfer Life to Other Planets

  March 20, 2012 — While scientists believe conditions suitable for life might exist on the so-called "super-Earth" in the Gliese 581 system, it's unlikely to be transferred to other planets within that solar ... > full story
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  Camera on NASA Mars Odyssey Tops Decade of Discovery

  February 29, 2012 — Ten years ago, on Feb. 19, 2002, the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS), a multi-band camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter, began scientific operations at the Red Planet. Since then the camera ... > full story
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  NASA Mars Orbiter Catches Twister in Action

  March 7, 2012 — An afternoon whirlwind on Mars lofts a twisting column of dust more than half a mile (800 meters) high in an image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars ... > full story

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