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Geotimes July 2004 Jay Chapman	Sliding into Saturn Late Wednesday night, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft silently slipped through the outermost rings of Saturn and entered into orbit. By early Thursday morning, Cassini began transmitting strikingly elegant close-up images of Saturn's rings.
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Wired December 2004 Brendan I. Koerner	NASA's Germbuster A cell biologist at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, Noonan chairs this committee charged with keeping future spacecraft from contaminating distant worlds and vice-versa.
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InternetNews July 5, 2005 Roy Mark	NASA'S Comet Collision Explodes in 'Net Traffic Deep Impact's spectacular collision with the comet Tempel 1 resulted in an explosion of record traffic to the NASA Web site to see how it looked.
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Geotimes April 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Ice Twists Under Pressure Confined inside tiny, hollow cylinders called carbon nanotubes, and subjected to high pressures similar to those found at a planet's core, water freezes into tiny ice spirals that resemble the DNA double helix, a new study shows.
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