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NASA: Robotic arm key to finding life on Mars - Computerworld

The 7.5-foot long arm has an attached scoop and drill bit that will dig up Martian ice and dust on the northern pole of the planet, according to Matthew ...Touchdown on the red planet, a site for thawed ice Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9090798

Astonomers find tiny planet orbiting tiny star SpaceRef

Astonomers find tiny planet orbiting tiny star
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=25565

Computer models suggest discovery of Earth-like planet !

The world is abuzz with the discovery of an extrasolar, Earth-like planet around the star Gliese 581 that is relatively close to our earth at 20 light years away in the constellation Libra.
http://www.physorg.com/news101135181.html

Another Asteroid Passes Close to Earth Universe Today

19 Responses to ???Another Asteroid Passes close to Earth??? ... yet this asteroid was able to skim the planet undetected our technology should be more directed ...
http://www.universetoday.com/2008/02/07/another-asteroid-passes-close-to-earth/

NASA - Beware the Mars Hoax

Earth and Mars are converging for a close encounter--but not as close as some people think.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/07jul_marshoax.htm

StarChild: The planet Venus

It is called this because it looks so bright to us from Earth. ... Venus and earth are almost the same size. Venus is the closest planet to ...
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level1/venus.html

INTERVIEW: The great Ridley Scott Speaks with Eclipse by Scott Essman - Eclipse Magazine

Today The Andromeda Strain seems just as potent because there is a combination of things ?? what we have done to our planet and global warming. ...
http://eclipsemagazine.com/hollywood-insider/interview-the-great-ridley-scott-speaks-with-eclipse-by-scott-essman/5812

How do you Model the Earth's Magnetic Field? Build your own Baby Planet?? Universe Today

The Earth's magnetic field is quite a mystery. How is it generated? How does it remain so stable? We have known of the Earth's magnetic field for hundreds of years and the humble compass has been telling us the direction of magnetic North Pole since the 1
http://www.universetoday.com/2008/06/02/how-do-you-model-the-earths-magnetic-field-build-your-own-baby-planet/

Research finds that Earth's climate is approaching 'dangerous' point

FTA: "NASA and Columbia University earth Institute research finds that human-made greenhouse gases have brought the Earth??s climate close to critical tipping points, with potentially dangerous consequences for the planet."Of course, there will
http://www.physorg.com/news99834285.html

99942 Apophis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

After the Minor planet Center confirmed the June discovery of Apophis then known only as ... 9 It will return for another close earth approach in 2036. ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apophis

New Worlds on the Horizon: Earth-Sized Planets Close to Other Stars ...

Our prospects for finding Earth-sized planets close to their host stars ... of detecting the emission from a "hot" Earth-sized planet close to a Sun-like star. ...
http://www.uah.edu/youngstars/ssrg/gaidos07.pdf

BBC - Science & Nature - Planet Earth

An interactive journey around the planet brings stunning video and images to your desktop. UK viewers can enjoy clips from planet earth and other natural history series.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/planetearth/

Phoenix gears up to begin Mars dig - San Francisco Chronicle

The arrival of Phoenix after its 422-million-mile voyage from earth had ended precisely on schedule Sunday and in the gentlest fashion possible, ...Video: NASA Spacecraft Successfully Lands on Mars AssociatedPress
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/27/MNP110TSTG.DTL

Mini-planet almost fits Earth??s profile MSNBC

There's a new extrasolar planet on the block: a mini-orb likely covered with a deep ocean. And it takes the record for the lowest-mass exoplanet to orbit a normal star, astrophysicists announced Monday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24935469/

MARS Programme Simulates Living on the Red Planet Here on Earth PICS

We might not be all that close to sending a manned mission to Mars, but that isn't stopping people from preparing for the journey. The Mars Analogue Research Station MARS Programme sets up simulations of the Martian atmosphere here on Earth, allowing pe
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A close encounter with the planet Mars

Right: This NASA Hubble Space Telescope view of the planet Mars is the clearest picture ever taken from Earth, surpassed only by close-up shots sent back by ...
http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast23apr99_1.htm

Planet Earth : Animals Up Close : Discovery Channel

Meet the animal stars of Discovery Channel&aposs planet earth series in our comprehensive interactive. ... ATTENTION! We recently updated our privacy policy. The changes are effective ...
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/planet-earth/animals/animals.html

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Red Planet comes close to Earth

Mars had a close encounter with earth early on Sunday, approaching to within 69.4 million km of our planet.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4384700.stm

New Mini-Planet Found "Shot in the Arm" for ET Search - National Geographic

The planet is 3000 light-years from earth and has a close-in orbit similar to Venus&39s. But because the newfound body&39s parent is so much cooler than our sun ...Newfound planet has just three times Earth&39s mass New Scientist subscription
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080602-new-planet.html

Astronomers Find Tiny Planet Orbiting Tiny Star SpaceDaily

by Staff Writers St. Louis, MO SPX Jun 02, 2008 An international team of astronomers led by David Bennett of the University of Notre Dame has discovered an extra-solar planet of about three earth masses orbiting a star with a mass so low that its core m
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Astronomers_Find_Tiny_Planet_Orbiting_Tiny_Star_999.html

Planets Align Over Australian Radio Telescope Array

Last week, Mercury, Venus, and the Moon all appeared close together in Earth's sky. This picturesque conjunction was caught on camera behind elements of the Australia Telescope Compact Array ATCA near the town of Narrabri in rural New South Wales.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080310.html

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Red Planet comes close to Earth

Oct 30, 2005 ... Mars had a close encounter with earth early on Sunday, approaching to within 69.4 million km of our planet.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4384700.stm

YouTube - Planet Earth

Planet earth.. trailer of the world ! live earth ! 07-07-07 ... close ... this planet don&apost need us at all!What a beautiful ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObzQOztMaZ4&feature=related

Re: What planet comes closest to Earth?

Venus approaches us as close as 26 million miles 41 million kilometres every 19 months whereas Mars is closest at 35 million miles 56 million kilometres every 15 years.
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/mar2000/953757660.As.r.html

Summertime Balls of Fire - Space.com

2008 ED69 is closest to earth on June 22, and brightest in the first week of June when its apparent visual magnitude +18.45 makes it a point of light in the ...
http://www.space.com/searchforlife/080529-seti-kappa-cygnids.html

Astonomers find tiny planet orbiting tiny star EurekAlert!

An international team of astronomers led by David Bennett of the University of Notre Dame has discovered an extra-solar planet of about three earth masses orbiting a star with a mass so low that its core may not be large enough to maintain nuclear reactio
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-06/uond-aft060208.php

German Memories in Asia - A Discussion on Volcanic Winter & Human Evolution

But the Sumatra region has a record of having faced many disasters and re-shaping human evolution itself on planet Earth. A new hypothesis about recent human evolution suggests that we came very close to extinction because of a "volcanic winter"
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/German+Memories+in+Asia+-+A+Discussion+on+Volcanic+Winter+%26+Human...-a01073746813

Space Today Online - Mars Closest to Earth in 59619 Years

Red planet Closest to earth in 59619 Years ... At its closest to Earth, on August 27, Mars was 34.65 million miles away from our planet. ...
http://www.spacetoday.org/SolSys/Mars/MarsThePlanet/MarsNearEarth.html

snopes.com: Mars Close to Earth

Will the planet Mars pass unusually close to earth during August 2007? ... The planet Mars will make a once-in-our-lifetimes, remarkably close approach to ...
http://www.snopes.com/science/mars.asp

Venus

Astronomers refer to Venus as Earth's sister planet. Both are similar in size, mass, density and volume.
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/venus.htm

First Day Of Summer - TheDay

As the moon will be near perigee and nearly as close to earth as it can come in its elliptical orbit, it should be very easy to read The Day by moonlight, ...
http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=4c8c438d-01f3-4df7-80e5-dfae0d3c8210

Small Planet Discovered Orbiting Small Star Science Daily

Astronomers have discovered an extra-solar planet of about three earth masses orbiting a star with a mass so low that its core may not be massive enough to maintain nuclear reactions. The planet, referred to as MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb, establishes a record for
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080602131105.htm

Earth??s Twin Habitable?

Scientists have discovered a planet not much bigger than our earth that may also be covered in oceans and has the right temperature to support life, about 20.5 light years away.Scientists believe that by 2020, it will be possible for a telescope to take a
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/04/1st_habitable_p.htmlmore

Planet Earth : Animals Up Close : Discovery Channel

Meet the animal stars of Discovery Channel&39s planet earth series in our comprehensive interactive.
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/planet-earth/animals/animals.html

Planet Earth - Prince

Planet earth album by Prince including album title, track listings, release dates, guest ... or offensive content, let us know by clicking the &aposReport This!&apos button. X Close
http://music.aol.com/album/planet-earth/1211378

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Mars Close to Earth

Will the planet Mars pass unusually close to earth during August 2007? ... Claim: The planet Mars will make a once-in-our-lifetimes, ...
http://www.snopes.com/science/mars.asp

Comments on this Story - Arizona Daily Star

Maybe the water/ice they discover on Mars can somehow be extracted, and through the miralcle of science, be transported back to planet earth and processed ...
http://regulus2.azstarnet.com/comments/index.php?id=241767

Smallest Earth-like planet detected McClatchy Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON ?? Astronomers have discovered what may be the smallest alien planet yet ?? a rocky ``SuperEarth'' only four times heavier than our home planet.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/200/story/38989.html

Planets with 4 Suns Discovered?

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope recently discovered what might be the first planetary system with four Suns. The quadruple-star system known as HD 988000 is approximately 10-million years old, and is located 150 light-years away from earth fairly close in
http://www.tfot.info/pod/266/Planets-with-4-Suns-Discovered-.html

SPACE.com -- Major Discovery: New Planet Could Harbor Water and Life

Apr 24, 2007 ... Gliese 581 C "is the closest planet to another earth that has been found to date. I hope the SETI folks are listening," Boss said. ...
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070424_hab_exoplanet.html

Planet Earth TV series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

... biggest mountain glacier : the Baltoro in Pakistan , which is 43 miles long and visible from space. planet earth Diaries demonstrates the difficulty of obtaining the first ever close ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bbc_planet_earth

Venus Fact Sheet

Venus earth Ratio Venus/Earth Mass 1024 kg 4.8685 5.9736 0.815 Volume 1010 km3 ... Venus earth Ratio Venus/Earth Semimajor axis 106 ...
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/venusfact.html

The greening of planet Earth - Inquirer.net

... a cause I have carried close to my heart ever since. magazines that highlight the beauty or distress of planet Earth. by the way colleagues and the ...
http://blogs.inquirer.net/notjustforprofit/2008/06/03/the-greening-of-planet-earth/

Newfound planet has just three times Earth's mass New Scientist

The alien world is likely made of rock and ice, and is the closest in mass to earth among the known planets of other stars
http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn14038-newfound-planet-has-just-three-times-earths-mass.html?feedId=online-news_rss20

German Memories in Asia: A Discussion on Volcanic Winter

But the Sumatra region has a record of having faced many disasters and re-shaping human evolution itself on planet Earth. A new hypothesis about recent human evolution suggests that we came very close to extinction because of a
http://www.ideamarketers.com/library/article.cfm?articleid=138529

Space Today Online - Solar System - Planet Venus - Venus Express ...

In modern times, due to the popularity of Mars, it has not been widely appreciated that the planet closest to earth is Venus. In fact, Venus comes twice as ...
http://www.spacetoday.org/SolSys/Venus/VenusExpress.html

Planet Quest: News Article

Planet Quest: the Search for Another earth is a multimedia-rich news and ... the mass of Jupiter than it is to detect planets closer to the mass of Earth. ...
http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/news/rocky_planet.cfm

Venus Facts

... size, density, and mass, Venus and earth often referred to as sister planets. ... A day on Venus 243 earth days is longer than a year ...
http://mars.sgi.com/worlds/CyberMarz/Venus/HTML/index.html

Environmental huddle riles Modoc County locals - San Francisco Chronicle

Many of his poems are ecological odes, and on the symposium program, he writes, "Find your place on the planet." And then there is Margolin, ...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/02/BASS110MEV.DTL

Planet similar to Earth found San Jose Mercury News

WASHINGTON - Astronomers have discovered what may be the smallest alien planet yet - a rocky "super-Earth" only four times heavier than our home planet.
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_9437039?source=rss

THANKFUL FOR AMERICA WITHOUT GUILT OR FEAR

All my life, I have always thought it was the coolest thing on planet earth to be an American. I have been to something close to 200 countries and political jurisdictions in the world, and whenever someone asks me, "Where are you from?" it is a
http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2972/2/

Earth: A Borderline Planet For Life?

Jan 14, 2008 ... Venus is a sister planet to Earth. It is ... > read more .... close. del.icio.us Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080112151809.htm

Armageddon Online - In 2003 Planet X could pass close to Earth ...

In 2003 planet X could pass close to Earth, stopping its rotation ... as the giant planet Jupiter and possibly so close to earth that it would be ...
http://armageddononline.tripod.com/planetx.htm

The Nine Planets Solar System Tour

... of getting up close with interplanetary spacecraft has revolutionized planetary ... Hypothetical Planets Planet X et al, or "Don't ...
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html

Five Years Of Mars Express - Space Daily

There is much to be said for the view that for some time it was warmer on the Earth&39s outer neighbouring planet than it is now, and that it had a water ...
http://www.marsdaily.com/reports/Five_Years_Of_Mars_Express_999.html

Asteroid's trajectory could pose danger for Earth in 2036 The Oklahoman

The anniversary of a pair of astronomically interesting events will occur June 30. One creates confusion among computers and people, and the other represents a potential warning for the future. On Friday, April 13, 2029, the asteroid Apophis will pass qui
http://newsok.com/asteroids-trajectory-could-pose-danger-for-earth-in-2036/article/3252009

What do you think of 2012?

Many Idiots had been saying that on 21st December 2012 earth would be destroyed as some other planet from some other solar system would be crossing out solar system and this cutting would very close to our planet Earth. i have heard a lot of such things b
http://www.stumblehere.com/rants/What-do-you-think-of-2012

Earth Introduction

From the perspective we get on Earth, our planet appears to be big and sturdy with ... several hours after it flew close to the earth on December 8, 1990. ...
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/earth.htm

YouTube - Planet Earth

Planet earth.. trailer of the world ! live earth ! 07-07-07 ... close ... it gives me goosebumps and brings a tear to my eye ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObzQOztMaZ4

The Planet Venus

Until the 1960s, Venus was often considered a "twin sister" to the earth because Venus is the nearest planet to us, and because superficially ...
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/venus/venus.html