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  Dawn Suggests Special Delivery of Hydrated Material to Vesta

  September 26, 2012 — The mechanism by which water is incorporated into the terrestrial planets is a matter of extensive debate for planetary scientists. Now, observations of Vesta by NASA's Dawn mission suggest that ... > full story
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  Slow-Moving Rocks Better Odds That Life Crashed to Earth from Space

  September 24, 2012 — Microorganisms that crashed to Earth embedded in the fragments of distant planets might have been the sprouts of life on this one, according to new research. The researchers provide the strongest ... > full story
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  Scientists Shed Light on Riddle of Sun's Explosive Events

  September 24, 2012 — Four decades of active research and debate by the solar physics community have failed to bring consensus on what drives the sun's powerful coronal mass ejections that can have profound "space ... > full story
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  NASA's Solar Fleet Peers Into Coronal Cavities

  September 20, 2012 — The sun's atmosphere dances. Giant columns of solar material -- made of gas so hot that many of the electrons have been scorched off the atoms, turning it into a form of magnetized matter we call ... > full story
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  NASA Mars Rover Targets Unusual Rock Enroute to First Destination

  September 19, 2012 — NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has driven up to a football-size rock that will be the first for the rover's arm to examine. Curiosity is about 8 feet (2.5 meters) from the rock. It lies about halfway ... > full story
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  First Planets Found Around Sun-Like Stars in a Cluster

  September 14, 2012 — Astronomers have, for the first time, spotted planets orbiting sun-like stars in a crowded cluster of stars. The findings offer the best evidence yet that planets can sprout up in dense stellar ... > full story
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  Up and Running: Just Hours After Launch, Radiation Belt Storm Probes Takes First Science Steps

  September 13, 2012 — While the RBSP teams at NASA's Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station celebrated a job well done following the 4:05 a.m. EDT launch of the Radiation Belt Storm Probes on Thursday, ... > full story
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  New RBSP Instrument Telemetry Provides 'Textbook' Excitement

  September 12, 2012 — In the very early hours of Sept. 1 -- just under two days since the 4:05 a.m. EDT launch of NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes -- the team at the RBSP Mission Operations Center (MOC) controlling ... > full story
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  Extreme Life Forms Might Be Able to Survive on Eccentric Exoplanets

  September 11, 2012 — Astronomers have discovered a veritable rogues' gallery of odd exoplanets -- from scorching hot worlds with molten surfaces to frigid ice balls. And while the hunt continues for the elusive "blue ... > full story
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  Mars's Dramatic Climate Variations Are Driven by the Sun

  September 6, 2012 — On Mars's poles there are ice caps of ice and dust with layers that reflect to past climate variations on Mars. Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have related the layers in the ice cap on ... > full story

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