Four Possible Sites Chosen for Next Mars Landing
Four intriguing places on Mars have risen to the final round as NASA selects a landing site for its next Mars mission, the Mars Science Laboratory.What is the redOrbit Knowledge Network?
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Scientist Map DNA Of Ice Age Wooly Mammoth
Scientists are making remarkable strides in unraveling much of the genetic code of the ice age’s wooly mammoth....
Scientists are making remarkable strides in unraveling much of the genetic code of the ice age’s wooly mammoth....
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MODIS Terra Earth Mosaic.
This image of the Earth is a mosaic of data from the MODIS on the Terra satellite, put together with the aid of Google Earth. Today's image shows the Earth as it appeared on November 13, 2008. Interes...
Athabasca Valles Distributary Channels.
This observation shows small, branching channels that are part of the larger Athabasca Valles channel system.
These side channels are “distributaries” because they bifurcate from the ma...
Submillimetre and infrared view of the Galactic Centre.
This is a colour composite image of the central region of our Milky Way galaxy, about 26 000 light years from Earth. Giant clouds of gas and dust are shown in blue, as detected by the LABOCA instrumen...
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