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The bottom of the world is a frozen desert incapable of supporting human life. But that doesn't mean there's nothing to see. Gabrielle Walker, author of the new book Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of...
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Olympus Mons
Olympus Mons The biggest known volcano in the solar system is Olympus Mons on Mars, discovered by Mariner 9 in 1971. The mountain towers nearly 22 km (14 miles) above the surrounding plain, more than...
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Gas and Dust in LMC Nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space, in a long and slow dance around our galaxy. Vast clouds of...
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Spring Fans on Mars At high latitudes every winter carbon dioxide condenses from Mars' atmosphere onto the surface forming a seasonal polar cap. In the spring, the Sun shines through this...
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Science: Lies From the Pit of Hell
Remove Congressman Paul Broun from the United States House Committee on Science, Space, and TechnologyPetition Signatures: ~8,700“All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology, Big Bang...
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Scarred Face of Ariel This mosaic of the four highest-resolution images of Ariel represents the most detailed Voyager 2 picture of this satellite of Uranus. The images were taken through the clear...
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Fire in the Dark A new image from the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope in Chile shows a beautiful view of clouds of cosmic dust in the region of Orion. While these dense interstellar...
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Veil Nebula The haunting Veil nebula appears here as a gorgeous tangle of gas and dust. This remnant is the result of a supernova that exploded 5,000 to 10,000 years ago and can be found 1,500...
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