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According to a new model, small fluctuations in convective flow in Earth’s core can explain how the Earth’s magnetic field reverses....
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:: 11 December, 2008
We live beyond our means: it is no longer just a problem of obesity threatens us, but a heart attack. Or more exactly, is a cardiac crisis that...
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:: 13 April, 2008
With less than two months to go before it is due to land on Mars, NASA's Phoenix probe has been directed towards a specific landing site called...
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:: 13 March, 2008
Venus Express has constantly been observing the south pole of Venus and has found it to be surprisingly fickle. An enormous structure with a...
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:: 08 March, 2008
The Cassini spacecraft has found evidence of material orbiting Rhea, Saturn's second largest moon. This is the first time rings may have been found...
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:: 06 March, 2008
Using two ESA spacecraft, planetary scientists are watching the atmospheres of Mars and Venus being stripped away into space. The simultaneous...
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:: 21 February, 2008
Venus Express has revealed a planet of extraordinarily changeable and extremely large-scale weather. Bright hazes appear in a matter of days,...
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:: 20 February, 2008
Despite the incredible diversity of Saturn’s icy moons, theirs is a story of great interaction. Some are pock-marked, some seemingly dirty, others...
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:: 05 December, 2007
A new map obtained with SMART-1 data shows the geography and illumination of the lunar north pole. Such maps will be of great use for future lunar...
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:: 23 November, 2007
On 25 December 2003, Europe’s first Mars explorer arrived at the Red Planet. Almost four years later, Mars Express continues to rewrite the text...
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:: 09 November, 2007
We're now coming into the home stretch of the last good apparition of Mars until 2016. Now blazing in the late-evening east-northeast sky like an...
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:: 06 November, 2007
Watching the stars set from the surface of the Earth may be a romantic pastime but when a spacecraft does it from orbit, it can reveal hidden...
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:: 02 November, 2007
Most people have seen the five brightest naked-eye planets, yet there is a sixth planet that can be spied without optical aid and another which can...
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:: 23 October, 2007
Enormous bubbles of plasma trapped within Earth's magnetic fields have been fully mapped for the first time.
Scientists now think the bubbles of...
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:: 18 October, 2007
A Chinese satellite plunged into the Earth's atmosphere and destroyed itself this week to end an extended mission studying the planet's magnetic...
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:: 08 October, 2007
When NASA's Phoenix lander arrives at Mars next May, it will join a flotilla of spacecraft already at the red planet working as a team of robotic...
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:: 21 September, 2007
This false-color image of the north polar layered deposits has been processed to emphasize color variations. It shows that the color as well as...
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:: 05 August, 2007
robotic dirt and ice digger blasted off Saturday on a 422 million-mile journey to Mars that NASA hopes will culminate next spring in the first...
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:: 04 August, 2007
The Planetary Society's silica-glass DVD is ready to launch to Mars on board Phoenix, NASA's newest Scout mission led by Principal Investigator...
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:: 24 June, 2007
Scientists and engineers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have just completed a successful test of new robotic vehicles...
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