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  Overhead View of Mars Rover 10 Years After Launch

  July 17, 2013 — An image from Mars orbit taken 10 years after the launch of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the long-lived rover on its trek to a new destination on ... > full story
• Extrasolar Planets
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  In the Zone: How Scientists Search for Habitable Planets

  July 17, 2013 — There is only one planet we know of, so far, that is drenched with life. That planet is Earth, and it has all the right conditions for critters to thrive on its surface. Do other planets beyond our ... > full story
• NASA
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  Curiosity Mars Rover Passes Kilometer of Driving

  July 17, 2013 — The latest drive by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover brought the total distance that the rover has driven on Mars to more than 1 kilometer. One kilometer is about 0.62 ... > full story
• Black Holes
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  Ripped Apart by a Black Hole: Gas Cloud Makes Closest Approach to Monster at Center of Milky Way

  July 17, 2013 — New observations show for the first time a gas cloud being ripped apart by the supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy. The cloud is now so stretched that its front part has passed the ... > full story
• Air Quality
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  NASA Technology May Breathe Life, Safety Into Mines

  July 16, 2013 — A technology used by NASA to protect crews working around hazardous gases soon could be called on for a number of life-saving applications as well as the agency's new human spaceflight ... > full story
• Dark Matter
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  New Findings on Makeup of Universe May Spawn Research

  July 16, 2013 — New areas of extragalactic study may emerge from research by astrophysicists using data from the Chandra Space Telescope to conclude that baryons making up all visible matter – once thought to ... > full story
• Sun
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  Heart of Space Weather Observed in Action

  July 15, 2013 — Two NASA spacecraft have provided the most comprehensive movie ever of a mysterious process at the heart of all explosions on the sun: magnetic reconnection. Magnetic reconnection happens when ... > full story
• Moon
  Today's Healthcare
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  Lunar Cycle Affects Cardiac Patients Undergoing Acute Aortic Dissection: Waning and Full Moon Cycles Impact Length of Stay, Mortality

  July 15, 2013 — If you need cardiac surgery in the future, aortic dissection in particular, reach for the moon. Or at least try to schedule your surgery around its cycle. A new study found that acute aortic ... > full story
• Solar System
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  Hubble Finds New Neptune Moon: Smallest Known Moon in the Neptunian System

  July 15, 2013 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a new moon orbiting the distant blue-green planet Neptune, the 14th known to be circling the giant ... > full story
• Space Station
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  NASA's OPALS to Beam Data from Space Via Laser

  July 11, 2013 — NASA will use the International Space Station to test a new communications technology that could dramatically improve spacecraft communications, enhance commercial missions and strengthen ... > full story

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