A mysterious radio static that seems to pervade the universe has astronomers theorizing as to its source.
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Ancient clay tablet deciphered, may solve asteroid mystery
British scientists have finally deciphered a mysterious ancient Assyrian clay tablet discovered 150 years ago, and believe they have solved a riddle over a giant asteroid impact more than 5,000 years ago in an area that is now the Austrian Alps.
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Microbes could survive meteorite smashes
Experiments to test microbial life’s response to the conditions of an asteroid smash boost the possibility of life travelling between planets
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Mars Express one of three orbiters preparing for Phoenix landing
A trio of NASA and ESA spacecraft orbiting Mars are preparing for the 25 May arrival of NASA’s Phoenix lander. ESA’s Mars Express has already started adjusting its orbit to provide critical back-up monitoring of Phoenix.
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After successfully delivering Columbus, Atlantis is back on Earth
ESA PR 10-2008. NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis, which successfully delivered ESA’s Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station, has safely returned to Earth with its crew of seven. Landing was at 14:07 UTC (15:07 CET) on 20 February at Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
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High energy electron holes reveal unseen rings
Gaps in the soup of high-energy particles near the orbits of two of Saturn’s tiny moons indicate that Saturn may be surrounded by undiscovered, near-invisible partial rings. A paper in the February issue of the journal Icarus suggests that the larger saturnian moons may not be the only ones contributing material to Saturn’s ring system.
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Cassini finds mingling moons may share a dark past
Despite the incredible diversity of Saturn’s icy moons, theirs is a story of great interaction. Some are pock-marked, some seemingly dirty, others pristine, one spongy, one two-faced, some still spewing with activity and some seeming to be captured from the far reaches of the solar system. Yet many of them have a common thread - black ‘stuff’ coating their surfaces.
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Columbus external experiments installed during spacewalk
Astronauts have successfully completed a spacewalk to install the Columbus external experiment facilities, SOLAR and the European Technology Exposure Facility. The facilities will now be activated and checked out before starting to collect the first data later this month.
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Deep valleys of Candor Chasma
Mars Express took snapshots of Candor Chasma, a valley in the northern part of Valles Marineris, as it was in orbit above the region on 6 July 2006.
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Titan’s surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth
Saturn’s orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new Cassini data. The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes.
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