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Spirit’s view of its own predicament. The rover is now parked for the winter with its solar panels tilted 9 degrees away from the sun. |
Mars rover Spirit has tenaciously swept, scraped, and squeezed secrets from the forbidding surface of Mars for 6 years. Now at an impasse, up to …
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The Discovery Channel Store is having a 2-Day Sale over Feb 23/24.
You can get $10 off $60 with Coupon Code FEB10, $15 off $75 with Coupon Code FEB15, $25 off $100 with Coupon Code FEB25.
Discovery have telescopes for all levels, from Beginners to Advanced, as …
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The sudden emergence of big sunspot 1045 over the weekend has caused a sharp upsurge in solar activity.
The active region has produced three M-class and almost a dozen C-class solar flares since it appeared on Saturday (Feb. 6th).
The strongest blast, an M6-class eruption on Feb. 7th, may have …
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NASA’s Kepler mission successfully launched into space from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II at 10:49 p.m. EST, Friday. Kepler is designed to find the first Earth-size planets orbiting stars at distances where water could pool on the planet’s surface. Liquid water is …
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