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Lunar Exploration Will Continue With India’s Chandrayaan-2 Mission

Posted on June 18, 2010 by admin

The exploration of our own moon will continue with an ambitious mission called Chandrayaan-2, a collaboration between the Indian Space Research Organization and Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency. The mission, which will be launched in 2012 or 2013, will … Continue reading →

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The Exploration of Mars’ Largest Moon Will Continue With the Phobos Grunt Mission

Posted on May 17, 2010 by admin

The exploration of Phobos, the larger of Mars’ two moons, will continue with Phobos Grunt, a Russian mission to be launched next year.  Roscosmos, the Russian national space agency, is planning to put a lander down on Phobos and return … Continue reading →

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Waterworlds: New Research Says We Will Probably Find Them Someday

Posted on May 14, 2010 by admin

This is an article about waterworlds, and the search for them. It now appears likely that such planets do exist somewhere in the universe, and if we go far enough, we will undoubtedly find some of them. Scientists have recently … Continue reading →

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The Planck Space Observatory Is Watching the Universe Being Born

Posted on April 18, 2010 by admin

In most of our articles, we have looked at the worlds in our own solar system, or orbiting relatively nearby stars.  There’s so much going on in our neighborhood, it’s easy to get nearsighted and forget that astronomy reaches much … Continue reading →

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ESA Launches Cryosat-2 on a Mission to Study Earth’s Ice

Posted on April 16, 2010 by admin

The European Space Agency launched its CryoSat-2 satellite today (April 8, 2010), thus completing the third phase of its Earth Explorer Series.  The satellite will give us our best picture yet of the effects of global warming on Earth’s ice, … Continue reading →

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