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Successful Image Taking By The High Definition Television


Space Mart
Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:48 UTC


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The Earth taken by the onboard HDTV OF THE KAGUYA.
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ESA's SOHO sights a periodic comet


United Press International
Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:00 UTC
The European Space Agency said its Solar and Heliospheric Observatory has sighted -- for the first time -- the third passage of a specific comet.

The space observatory, called SOHO -- a joint ESA project with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- has found more than 1,350 comets. But this is the first time it's found a rare type of comet called a periodic comet -- meaning it flies by the sun at regular intervals. While many SOHO-discovered comets are believed to be periodic, this is the first that's been officially declared as such, the ESA said.
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Bizarro Earth

Go East old man:Neanderthals reached China's doorstep


AFP
Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:23 UTC
European Neanderthals, modern man's ill-fated cousins who died out mysteriously some 28,000 years ago, migrated much further east than previously thought, according to a study released Sunday.

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Visitors of the Museum for Prehistory in Eyzies-de-Tayac looking at a Neanderthal man ancestor's reconstruction, in 2004.
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Better Earth

The Threat Of Small Rocks


Space Daily
Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:43 UTC
Moffet Field, California - Every now and then a space rock hits the world's media - sometimes almost literally. Threatening asteroids that zoom past the Earth, fireballs in the sky seen by hundreds of people and mysterious craters which may have been caused by impacting meteorites; all make ESA's planned mission Don Quijote look increasingly timely. Asteroid and comet impacts have played an important role in the history of life on Earth.
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All Planets Possible


Space Daily
Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:25 UTC


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This is an artist's concept of an Earthlike planet around another star
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Lunar Outpost Plans Taking Shape


Moon Daily
Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:10 UTC
Houston TX - NASA's blueprints for an outpost on the moon are shaping up. The agency's Lunar Architecture Team has been hard at work, looking at concepts for habitation, rovers, and space suits. NASA will return astronauts to the moon by 2020, using the Ares and Orion spacecraft already under development. Astronauts will set up a lunar outpost - possibly near a south pole site called Shackleton Crater - where they'll conduct scientific research, as well as test technologies and techniques for possible exploration of Mars and other destinations.
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Comet Collides With Solar Hurricane


Science Daily
Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:00 UTC
Goddard Space Flight Center - A NASA satellite has captured the first images of a collision between a comet and a solar hurricane. It is the first time scientists have witnessed such an event on another cosmic body. One of NASA's pair of Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory satellites, known as STEREO, recorded the event April 20.

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This is a still taken from a visualization showing Comet Encke and the coronal mass ejection erupting from the surface of the Sun.

Comment: To find out more about comets and how often they actually collide with our planet, read: Forget About Global Warming: We're One Step From Extinction!

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Flashback Turkey: Noah's Ark anomaly gets a new image


China View
Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:09 UTC
BEIJING -- Three high-tech companies have joined technology in the search for evidence that a 980-foot-long feature on Turkey's Mt. Ararat might be what's left of Noah's Ark.

The high-tech effort involves GeoEye, INTA Space Turk, along with the talents of Satellite Imaging Corporation. Satellite Imaging Corporation of Houston, Texas has created a 3D terrain model of the so-called "Mt. Ararat anomaly" -- making use of stereo IKONOS satellite image data to create a flyover of the site in remote northeastern Turkey.
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Sony to launch ultra-thin TVs in December


Associated Free Press
Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:20 UTC


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Life Preserver

Early Polynesians Sailed Thousands of Miles for Trade

Dave Hansford
National Geographic
Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:58 UTC
Early Polynesians sailed thousands of miles for exploration and trade, suggests a new study of early stone woodworking tools.

The analysis confirms traditional tales of vast ocean voyages and hints that a trading network existed between Hawaii and Tahiti as early as a thousand years ago. (See a photo gallery of the artifacts and early voyages.)
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