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Rover Starts Crater Science Tasks |
| The US space agency's Mars rover Opportunity has begun investigating rocks along the rim of the large crater it is perched by on the Red Planet - BBC NEWS |
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Hunt For Oil Leads To Crater Linked To 'Great Dying' |
| In a week in which crude oil reached its highest price since 1990, scientists have announced that the search for oil has led to the identification of a 250-million-year-old impact crater that may be associated with the worst mass extinction in history - Space.com |
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Probe Reveals Saturn's Stripes |
| The Cassini probe, en route to Saturn, has taken an amazing image of light and dark banded clouds that characterise the ringed planet's atmosphere - BBC NEWS |
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Private Spaceship Sets Altitude Record |
| Aircraft designer Burt Rutan and his firm Scaled Composites took a giant leap early Thursday toward becoming the first private company to send a person into space - CNN.com |
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Spitzer Shares The Wealth |
| NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope began providing astronomers with access to the infrared telescope's data - SpaceDaily |
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Dying Star Sculpts Rungs Of Gas And Dust |
| Astronomers may not have observed the fabled "Stairway to Heaven," but they have photographed something almost as intriguing: ladder-like structures surrounding a dying star - Spaceflight Now |
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XMM-Newton Detects X-Ray 'Solar Cycle' In Distant Star |
| ESA's X-ray observatory XMM-Newton has revealed for the first time a cyclic behaviour in the X-ray radiation emitted by a star similar to the Sun - SpaceDaily |
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New Mexico To Host Private X Prize Spaceflight Contests |
| The X Prize Foundation and the New Mexico Office of Space Commercialization are joining forces to stage the multi-faceted X Prize Cup, a two-week long event that allows for privately financed, passenger-carrying space vehicles to compete for prizes - CNN.com |
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Two Planet Finding Missions |
| NASA plans to launch two separate space observatories within the next 10-15 years which will be capable of finding Earth-like planets orbiting other stars - Universe Today |
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Mexican Air Force Pilots Film Unidentified Objects |
| Mexican Air Force pilots filmed 11 unidentified objects in the skies over southern Campeche state, a Defense Department spokesman confirmed Tuesday - CNN.com |
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