Curiosity on course to land on Mars

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At this moment the mega rover Curiosity is barely 48 hours from Mars and transformatio

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Super hi-res sunspot

post from Bad Astronomy on 04 August 2012 09:00:32 AM. © Bad Astronomy

On August 1, astrophotographer Bart Declercq went outside to get some shots of our nearest star. He used a 30 centimeter (12") telescope, two filters, and a pretty nice camera, he took several thousand frames of video of the Sun. Using a technique[...]

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'Top Gun' Tests Radar for Mars

post from HD - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on 04 August 2012 03:00:00 AM. © HD - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Between 2006 and 2011, engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., conducted a series of aerial tests on the radar that will be used to land NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars.

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Phoning Home: Communicating from Mars

post from HD - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on 04 August 2012 03:00:00 AM. © HD - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

How did we know that Curiosity landed safely on the surface of Mars?

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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Flying Over Mars

post from HD - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on 04 August 2012 03:00:00 AM. © HD - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

This animation shows NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter flying over NASA's Curiosity (shown in pink) as the rover lands on the Red Planet.

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Great Convergence of Spacecraft around Mars

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This artist's animation shows how orbiters over Mars will monitor the landing of NASA's Curiosity rover.

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Evolutionary theory of bird bills may need
revision

post from Top stories on 04 August 2012 12:34:34 AM. © Top stories

New research on song sparrows offers a new take on bird-beak evolution that is more nuanced than earlier ideas based on finch studies.

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Guess the Architecture 8/4/12

This weeks images were submitted by ozzb!Can you figure out the history of this piece of architecture? Care to guess why it was built? Do you know any other pieces that were built for similar reasons, or with similar styles?Let us know in the comments below!As an added bonus, here's an a

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Early relationships, not brainpower, key to adult
happiness

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Positive social relationships in childhood and adolescence are key to adult well-being, according to Associate Professor Craig Olsson from Deakin University and the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Australia, and his colleagues.

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Americans gaining more weight than they say

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Despite the increasing awareness of the problem of obesity in the United States, most Americans don't know whether they are gaining or losing weight, according to new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.

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