Life Thrives at Polar 'Space Base'
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Extreme cold, ice, darkness challenge Airmen As temperatures hover at 30 degrees below zero, the Airmen and radars of Detachment 3, 22nd Space Operations Squadron stand watch over North America's frozen north.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER HOUSTON - For the international space station's newest crew member, his first week aboard the orbiting outpost was anything but routine.
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An ESA-designed house that uses technology designed for space could become the basis of the new German Antarctic station, Neumayer-III. The new station has to meet stringent laws set up to protect the Antarctic environment, which is where the use of space technology comes in.
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Recent analyses of ESAÃ¢ÂÂs Mars Express data reveal that concentrations of water vapour and methane in the atmosphere of Mars significantly overlap. This result provides important new hints to evaluate the hypothesis of present life on the Red Planet.
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An ice sheet in Antarctica that is the world's largest &#151; with enough water to raise global sea levels by 200 feet &#151; is relatively stable and poses no immediate threat, according to new research.
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Picture this: The year is 2025 and you're on the moon. &quot;Home&quot; is 100 meters awayâan outpost on the rim of Shackleton Crater. NASA started building it five years earlier, and it is growing fast.
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Tests by a team from the University of New South Wales, reported in the journal âNatureâ this week [16 September], show that the âDome Câ site in the Australian Antarctic Territory is by far the best place ever tested on Earth for doing infrared
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Astronauts have long known that space travel is a good way to diet. The excitement of launch. Thrilling vistas seen from Earth orbit. Floating weightless. Maybe a touch of motion sickness. Who can eat at a time like that?
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At Space 2006, arguments erupt over whether the moon, Mars or a space station should be the central settlement. Each has its advantages and downsides. Robert Lemos reports from San Jose, California.
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The ice-cloaked Arctic Ocean was once apparently a warm, biologically brewing basin, scientists say.
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Comment is free: Johnjoe McFadden: The location of a newly discovered planet is good news in the search for extraterrestrials.
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The agency envisions a base at one of the lunar poles, to take advantage of the near-constant sunlight.
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Â· Moscow 'space flight' to simulate mission to Mars Â· Britons seek places in cramped static cabin
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Far above Earth, where the atmosphere as we know it merges into empty space, lies the thermosphere -- home to space stations and satellites and very thin air. Hardly the kind of place, one might think, where human affairs would have much impact.
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Belgium is building the first ever zero-emission polar station in the Antarctic, powered by solar panels and wind turbines and designed to have minimal impact on the climate change its scientists are studying.
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Rocky planets with conditions suitable for life may be more common than previously thought, a study finds
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You&#39;re speeding through space at 28 000 kilometres per hour, at times the outside temperature gets down to a chilling minus two hundred degrees Celsius, there is no quick getaway.