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NASA Releases A Year's Worth Of Data About The Habitability Of Mars

MAVEN, full name the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission, started orbiting Mars just over a year ago with the goal of gathering data about the Martian atmosphere...

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Sustainable Development

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Is About To Get a Precarious Memory Wipe

Prior to its Aug. 12, 2005 launch, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) was loaded up with 10 years’ worth of data projecting the future positions of Earth ...

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Sustainable Development

‘We Were So Surprised’: Researchers Detect Oxygen On Rosetta’s Comet

Rosetta’s ROSINA instrument—a mass spectrometer—detected O2 in the icy body’s coma, the cloud of gas and dust and other space stuff around Comet 67P...

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Sustainable Development

SpaceX Says There’s ‘Not a Lot of Effort’ Going into Satellite Internet Plan

SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell pumped the brakes on the company’s audacious plan to launch 4,000 internet-providing satellites into orbi...

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Sustainable Development

On The Anniversary Of Sputnik, Here’s What The Probe Actually Discovered

Today marks the 58th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite ever to grace orbit, as well as the starting pistol of the space race. As ...

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Sustainable Development

The Amount Of Space Junk Around Earth Has Hit A ‘Critical Density’ — And It Could Jeopardize Our Space Missions

“We’re at what we call a ‘critical density’ — where there are enough large objects in space that they will collide with one another and create...

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Sustainable Development

The Saffire Experiment Will Study Real Fires in Microgravity

This combustible research project is slated for launch in 2016, and will be activated at a distance from the International Space Station to avoid, you know, setting our onl...

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Medical Testing Is So Hot Right Now. This Startup Wants In

THE CALIFORNIA HEADQUARTERS of Cofactor Genomics is a bright little bungalow a few blocks from downtown Mountain View. Floral vines abuzz with insects and hummingbirds part...

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Environment

This Week in Storms: Typhoon Kila, Sudanese Dust, Hurricane Fred

Weather prediction involves a lot of probabilities (and no certainties) and informed guesses, but weather observation gets better every year. In part we can thank NASA's Te...

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Sustainable Development

Chinese Research Will Fly On The International Space Station For The First Time

The International Space Station is a bit like an orbiting United Nations composed of 16 different countries. But it has yet to welcome China into its ranks. That could be s...

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