The Earth from Space
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Satellite images of the world in 2007
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Planet-building is dusty work, and now two space telescopes have captured images of cosmic construction materials: disks of dust circling stars about the same size as our sun.
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Satellite image acquisitions will be synchronised with the tides as part of an ambitious new project to map coastlines from space. Accurate up-to-date marine charts are essential for safe shipping navigation.
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Noctilucent, no less A NASA satellite has captured its first images of noctilucent clouds, brightly lit night-time clouds that form high in Earth's atmosphere during each hemisphere's summer.â¦
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John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth. The space program really takes off after this. Compiled by Tony Long.
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A group of European-led    astronomers has made a photograph of what appears to be a planet orbiting another    star. If so, it would be the first confirmed picture of a world beyond our solar    system.
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It wasn&#39;t anywhere near as big as Noah&#39;s worldwide flood -- but evidence is pouring in from a Mars-orbiting satellite that a vast plain on the Red Planet must once have held a deep ocean bigger than all the Great Lakes put together.
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A spacecraft in solar orbit reached almost directly above   the south pole of the Sun last week, giving   scientists a rare glimpse of this unfamiliar territory.
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Scientists find many regions on Earth that once had permanent frozen ground are now experiencing a thaw.
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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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SAN FRANCISCO: Pictures of Earth-like clouds were captured by Nasa&#39;s Mars rover on Wednesday. Reports also indicate that there&#39;s a rock that doesn&#39;t look like anything scientists have ever seen.
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Space scientists offer thoughts, both practical and far-fetched, for what to do if thereâs a space rock out there with our planetâs number on it.
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European Space Agency -- ESAÃ¢ÂÂs quartet of space-weather watchers, Cluster, has discovered vortices of ejected solar material high above the Earth.     The superheated gases trapped in these structures are probably tunnelling their way into the EarthÃ¢ÂÂs magnetic Ã¢ÂÂbubbleÃ¢ÂÂ, the magnetosphere...
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An asteroid with a wild orbit is about to zoom by our planet. Plus: Solving the mystery of the Pioneer anomaly could take decades.... A biologist finds a chunk of space shuttle Columbia. By Amit Asaravala.
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ST. PETERS, Mo. - The origins of the universe could soon be uncovered with the help of silicon and other materials. In 2001, NASA launched a robotic spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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A distant speck of light appears to be the first planet outside our solar system to be captured on film. While there is no definitive evidence that the speck is a planet, an international team of astronomers is arguing the case.
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Astronomers have yet to find an Earth-size planet beyond our solar system, but that hasn&#39;t stopped them from modeling what these worlds might look like.