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| The Stars My Destination |
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11/09/09 |
| The Voyager spacecraft are now in the outermost layer of the heliosphere, traveling toward interstellar space – the first man-made spacecraft to travel such a vast distance from Earth. |
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| Migrating Microbes |
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10/15/09 |
| With every spacecraft that leaves Earth, millions of microbes hitch a ride into space. As astrobiologists search for life in other worlds, preventing forward and back contamination remains a key priority. |
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| Space Hand-Me-Downs |
| Topic: Missions |
09/17/09 |
| Much of the biology on Earth involves molecules that are oriented in a left-handed direction. A proposed nano-satellite would carry up some of these bio-molecules to see if something in space might be responsible for this left-handed excess. |
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| Welcome to the New Astrobiology Magazine! |
| Topic: Missions |
06/18/09 |
| Is there life on other planets? What are the latest findings on Mars? Astrobiology Magazine has been reporting the latest and most exciting developments in science related to astrobiology since 2000. To provide the best experience for our viewers, we have designed a completely new version of Astrobiology Magazine.
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| Destination: Ceres! |
| Topic: Missions |
04/16/09 |
| Plans are being drawn up for a low-cost mission to land on the dwarf planet Ceres. Known as the Ceres Polar Lander, it would examine polar regions and search for alien organisms. |
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| Cliffbot Goes Climbing |
| Topic: Missions |
11/03/08 |
| From Astrobiology Magazine, European Edition is a story about a rover that can scale the steep sides of cliffs and craters. Developed by a group of NASA engineers, this three-rover system, modeled on tether-aided human climbing, could make such locations on Mars accessible for future exploration. |
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| Drilling Down to Alien Oceans |
| Topic: Missions |
08/28/08 |
| A new method of exploring thick icy sheets and what lies below them has been devised. Combining a drill and a melting tip, this probe is particularly useful for exploring icy locations such as the polar caps of Mars and Jupiter’s moon Europa. |
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| Searching for Earth |
| Topic: Missions |
03/24/08 |
| More than 250 planets have been found orbiting distant stars. Most of them are “hot Jupiters,” giant planets orbiting close to their stars, unlikely places for life to take hold. NASA’s Kepler mission hopes to find habitable planets like Earth. Or, perhaps, to discover that there aren’t many of them around to find. |
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| Robot Dives Deep for Sinkhole Slime |
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06/25/07 |
| DEPTHX, an underwater robot capable of navigating without human control, has recovered microbial biofilm samples from the deepest water-filled sinkhole in the world. Microbiologist John Spear is looking forward to learning what the ‘bot brought home. |
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