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China is expected to launch the 22nd exploration to the South Pole in November, aiming primarily to collect meteorites on the Grove Mountain area.
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Archaeologists have discovered what could be the henge of the North-East. Thousands of years before Durham Cathedral took shape, settlers could have worshipped on a nearby hill because experts from Tyne and Wear Museums have found evidence of continuous settlement on the site from 3,000BC to 300...
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Shatsky Rise Formation
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Scientists Explore Origins of 'Supervolcanoes' on the Sea Floor "Supervolcanoes" have been blamed for multiple mass extinctions in Earth's history, but the cause of their massive eruptions is unknown. Despite their global impact, the eruptions' origin and triggering mechanisms h...
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NASA and the Northrop Grumman Corp. of Los Angeles have unveiled the first Global Hawk aircraft system to be used for environmental science research, heralding a new application for the world's first fully autonomous high-altitude, long-endurance aircraft. The debut took place Thursday at NAS...
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Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy
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Overlooking Los Angeles, six small domes nestle amid the pine trees atop Mount Wilson. Individually, the 1-metre telescopes inside those buildings have no chance of competing with the biggest ground and space telescopes. But collectively, the Mount Wilson telescopes are producing some of the s...
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Rakesh Sharma
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Wing commander Rakesh Sharma takes a walk down memory lane to the day he blasted off to space, becoming the first Indian to do so. Wing Commander (Retd) Rakesh Sharma, recipient of the Ashoka Chakra, fobs off any attempt to glorify him. When I tell him that my family and friends were beside themselves w...
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The Missoula Floods
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The Missoula Floods (also known as the Spokane Floods or the Bretz Floods) refer to the cataclysmic floods that swept periodically across eastern Washington and down the Columbia River Gorge at the end of the last ice age. Read more T...
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United Launch Alliance
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ULA chooses new HQ site The United Launch Alliance is expected to tell its employees April 5 the location of its new headquarters campus. Read more
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PPMXL catalogue
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Title: The PPMXL catalogue of positions and proper motions on the ICRS. Combining USNO-B1.0 and 2MASS Authors: Siegfried Roeser, Markus Demleitner, Elena Schilbach USNO-B1.0 and 2MASS are the most widely used full-sky surveys. However, 2MASS has no proper motions at all, and USNO-B1.0 publish...
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Marsili Seamount
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Undersea volcano threatens southern Italy Europe's largest undersea volcano could disintegrate and unleash a tsunami that would engulf southern Italy "at any time", a prominent vulcanologist warned in an interview published Monday. The Marsili volcano, which is bursting with mag...
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Tropical Storm Paul
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Tropical Storm PAUL-10 affected few people with wind speeds of hurricane strength or stronger in Australia. Read more
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Guernsey observatory
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Submarine landslide
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An enormous submarine landslide that disintegrated 60,000 years ago produced the longest flow of sand and mud yet documented on Earth. The massive submarine flow travelled 1,500 kilometres the distance from London to Rome before depositing its load. Details of the landslide and consequent sedi...
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Alliant Techsystems Inc.
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Alliant, Lockheed Team for Smaller Satellite Launches Alliant Techsystems Inc. is looking to forge two new partnerships that will help it expand into new markets as it seeks to keep up with shifts in U.S. military and civilian space programs. [url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405...
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Combustion Research Facility
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Sandia to break ground for new computational laboratories building A groundbreaking ceremony for a new facility - the Combustion Research Computation and Visualisation (CRCV) building, part of the Combustion Research Facility (CRF) - will take place at 2 p.m., Wednesday, March 24, on the groun...
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