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Cities at Night Panorama of Millions of US East Coast Earthlings
Do you live here? Tens of millions of Earthlings live and work in the bustling and seemingly intertwined American mega-metropolis of the Philadelphia-New York City-Boston corridor (bottom-center splotch) captured in this stunning ?Cities at Night? panorama of the East Coast of the United States along the Atlantic seaboard (image above). Look northward and you?ll see [...]
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Incredible 3-D View Inside a Martian Crater
This is why I always keep a pair of 3-D glasses by my computer. This well-preserved crater on Mars may look like just your average, run-of-the-mill impact crater in 2-D, but in 3-D, the sharply raised rim, the deep, cavernous crater body, and especially the steep crater walls will have you grabbing your armchairs so [...]
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Can We Land On a Comet?
The Rosetta mission will do something never before attempted: land on a comet. The spacecraft is now on its way to intercept comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in January 2014 and land a probe on it for what promises to be an amazing view. But what we know of comets so far comes from a few flyby missions. [...]
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Are You Listening to Astronomy.FM?
Are you listening to Astronomy.FM? If not, you should join the audience of over 25,000 listeners in 85 countries who are enjoying this amazing free service. Astronomy.FM is billed as ?The only all-Astronomy radio station in the Known Universe.? You can listen to this one-of-a-kind radio station on-line anytime, as it is streaming 24 hours [...]
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How Plants May Have Helped Create Earth?s Unique Landscapes
According to conventional thinking, plant life first took hold on Earth after oceans and rivers formed; the soil produced by liquid water breaking down bare rock provided an ideal medium for plants to grow in. It certainly sounds logical, but a new study is challenging that view – the theory is that vascular plants, those [...]
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