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Plans for the launch of "Genesis," NASA's next Discovery-class mission, are based on researchers' desire to capture ions and elements in the solar wind. This piece of the sun will be studied in a probe of the solar system's origin.
Publication Name: Ad Astra
Subject: Astronomy
ISSN: 1041-102X
Year: 2001
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Space beat: Mars ... the once and future abode of life?
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Percival Lowell argued in his work 'Mars as the Abode of Life' that Mars was laced with Martian-built water-carrying canals. NASA's Astrobiology Institute reported recently that tiny magnetite crystals were found, identical to those found in the 4.5 billion-year-old Martian meteorite discovered in Antarctica. These magnet-producing bacteria are like those found in marine environments on Earth.
Publication Name: Ad Astra
Subject: Astronomy
ISSN: 1041-102X
Year: 2001
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The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11 were witnessed by the astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and by the orbiting satellites. The ISS crew passed over New York fifteen minutes after learning of the disaster.
Publication Name: Ad Astra
Subject: Astronomy
ISSN: 1041-102X
Year: 2001
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