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Wave at Saturn: NASA's Cassini spacecraft to take Earth's picture
Earthlings, get ready to say cheese! NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will be taking your picture next month -- from 898 million miles away. If you happen to have your eyes closed or your hair is out of place, don’t worry. All of planet Earth...
Tags: Science and Technology, Space Programs, NASA
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NASA's Mars Curiosity rover to take Lego form, thanks to voters
Perhaps it was only a matter of time before NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover got its own official Lego avatar. The Mars Science Laboratory robot was picked by thousands of fans to be designed in toy brick form, and it joins a pantheon of other Red Planet...
Tags: Science and Technology, NASA Mars Exploration Program, NASA, LEGO Group, Amina Khan
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Lego approves fan-made Mars Rover Curiosity set for production [w/video]
Autoblog.comFiled under: Toys/Games Lego has announced that the Mars Rover Curiosity will become the Danish company's next user-designed Cuusoo set to reach store shelves. The company's Cuusoo program allows anyone to submit an idea for a Lego set that could make... -
Mars rover Opportunity finds sign of 'water you could drink'
NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity has scraped away at some of the oldest rock it's examined and found the strongest signs for water it has ever discovered over its 9.5-year mission, scientists for the Mars Exploration Rover project said Friday. The...
Tags: Science and Technology, NASA Mars Exploration Program, Science, NASA, Amina Khan
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Mars rover Curiosity to tackle 3-mile high mountain
Just 10 months into its two-year mission, the Mars rover Curiosity will be headed to a 3-mile-high mountain in the middle of the crater where it landed, NASA officials announced Wednesday. In doing so, Curiosity will leave behind Glenelg, an area on...
Tags: Science and Technology, NASA Mars Exploration Program, Google+, Science, NASA
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NASA: Astronauts could face dangerous radiation levels on trek to Mars
An instrument on NASA’s Curiosity rover found during its deep-space cruise that a mission to a place like Mars could expose humans to potentially dangerous radiation levels, scientists announced Thursday. Currently, NASA allows astronauts to be...
Tags: Science and Technology, NASA Mars Exploration Program, Science, Google Inc., Washington, DC
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The moon's mysteriously uneven gravity is explained at last
A lunar mystery that has lingered for decades has finally been solved, thanks to data collected by NASA's GRAIL mission and some science detectives here on Earth. Back in 1968, JPL scientists made an irritating discovery while preparing for the Apollo...
Tags: Science and Technology, Science, Space Programs, NASA
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Massive asteroid QE2 is traveling with its own moon
When asteroid 1998 QE2 makes its closest approach to Earth on Friday, it will not be traveling alone: The massive space rock is hurtling through space accompanied by its own moon. It is not unheard of for an asteroid to have a moon, or satellite,...
Tags: NASA
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Big asteroid sails by Earth
An asteroid nine times the length of the Queen Elizabeth 2 ocean liner is swanning past Earth on Friday, giving astronomers their first chance to study the big rock with big radar telescopes. Called the QE2, the asteroid isn't one of the potentially...
Tags: Science and Technology, Science, Space Programs, Hampton Roads, Astronomy
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Ida Margaret McRonald (nee Magness)
Ida Margaret McRonald (nee Magness) was born on October 2, 1930 and died of leukemia in Verdugo Hills Hospital on May 26, 2013. She was born in Crumlin, a small town in Wales. Her parents were Stephen Lester Magness and Ethel (Watkins) Magness. As a...
Tags: American Cancer Society, Adelaide (Australia), University of Oxford, Health and Medical Professionals, Sydney (Australia)
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Stealthy, truck-sized asteroid zipped past Earth on Friday night
An asteroid the size of a truck zipped past Earth on Friday night, and you probably missed it. Asteroid 2013 LR6 is 30 feet in length, or a bit more than half the size of the space rock that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in February. It made...
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Calexico High celebrates 100 years of Bulldogs
Staff WriterCALEXICO – Students beamed with pride as they became the 100th class to become Bulldogs for life during Calexico High School’s commencement ceremony Friday evening. The graduating class of 2013 totals 516 students, and after Friday, they will...Tags: Students, Graduation, Science and Technology, New York University, Teaching and Learning
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