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  NASA Rover Finds Conditions Once Suited for Ancient Life on Mars

  March 12, 2013 — An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA's Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes. Scientists identified sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and ... > full story
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  Strategies for Possible Survival on Mars: Scientists Found Differences in Core Proteins from a Microorganism That Lives in a Salty Lake in Antarctica

  March 11, 2013 — Research has revealed key features in proteins needed for life to function on Mars and other extreme environments. Scientists studied organisms that survive in the extreme conditions of Antarctica. ... > full story
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  Lunar Impacts Created Seas of Molten Rock

  March 11, 2013 — The impact that formed the Moon's Orientale basin created a sea of melted rock 220 miles across and 6 miles deep, according to a new analysis. Similar seas of impact melt were probably present in at ... > full story
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  Blue Bursts of Hot Young Stars Captured by Hubble

  March 11, 2013 — A new Hubble image, speckled with blue, white and yellow light, shows part of the spiral galaxy IC 5052. Surrounded in the image by foreground stars in our own galaxy, and distant galaxies beyond, it ... > full story
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  Cassini Returns Images of Battered Saturn's Moon Rhea

  March 11, 2013 — Following its last close flyby of Saturn's moon Rhea, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured these raw, unprocessed images of the battered icy moon. They show an ancient, cratered surface bearing the ... > full story
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  Closest Star System Found in a Century

  March 11, 2013 — A pair of newly discovered stars is the third-closest star system to the Sun and the closest discovered since 1916. At 6.5 light years, it is so close that Earth's television transmissions from 2006 ... > full story
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  Cassini Makes Last Close Flyby of Saturnian Moon Rhea

  March 8, 2013 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be swooping close to Saturn's moon Rhea on Saturday, March 9, the last close flyby of Rhea in Cassini's mission. The primary purpose will be to probe the internal ... > full story
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  Comet PANSTARRS Rises to the Occasion Mid-March

  March 8, 2013 — Comets visible to the naked eye are a rare delicacy in the celestial smorgasbord of objects in the nighttime sky. Scientists estimate that the opportunity to see one of these icy dirtballs ... > full story
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  New 3-D Reconstructions Show Buried Flood Channels on Mars

  March 7, 2013 — New maps of the subsurface of Mars show for the first time buried channels below the surface of the red planet. Understanding the source and scale of the young channels present in Elysium Planitia -- ... > full story
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  Hubble Finds 'Birth Certificate' of Oldest Known Star

  March 7, 2013 — Astronomers have taken an important step closer to finding the birth certificate of a star that's been around for a very long time. The star could be as old as 14.5 billion years (plus or minus 0.8 ... > full story

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