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Popular Mechanics September 2006	Scientists Are Finding Life In Earth's Coldest, Hottest, Weirdest Places By creating an alternative life chemistry in the lab, astrobiologist Steven Benner hopes to uncover a formula for alien microbes. How five big questions about life on our planet are shaping the search for it on other worlds.
Geotimes August 2004 Naomi Lubick	Slow Boat to a Small Planet For the first time in more than three decades, scientists are going to get a close-up view of Mercury, Earth's smallest neighbor and the rocky planet closest to the sun.
Popular Mechanics June 2006 Jennifer Bogo	Beholding Saturn This mosaic of 126 images from Cassini is the most detailed, natural-color view of Saturn ever made. NASA's imaging specialist explains the stunning view from the Cassini spacecraft.
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.
Geotimes March 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Closing in on Mars A camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft returned its first four images to Earth, and astronomers say they were "thrilled" with the results.
Popular Mechanics January 18, 2008 Jennifer Bogo	Inside NASA's Mega Flyby of Mercury's Dark Side NASA's new Messenger spacecraft will conduct a full scientific investigation of Mercury's surface.
Chemistry World April 2006 Richard Corfield	The Greenhouse in the Sky? Venus could be the ultimate example of what can happen when an atmospheric greenhouse effect runs away. The European Space Agency's Venus Express probe is focusing on understanding the planet's atmosphere.
Geotimes December 2004	A Saturnian One-Two Punch: Flybys of Titan and Dione On Monday, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft flew by Titan only 1,200 kilometers above the moon's surface. It was the second such flyby of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, since the spacecraft began orbiting Saturn on June 30.
Popular Mechanics March 3, 2008 Brian Lisi	Satellite Snaps Multiple Avalanches on Northern Cliffs of Mars NASA's long observation of the Red Planet has rarely sent home as stunning an in-progress geological change as this: not one, but four avalanches tumbling from the Martian north pole.
Popular Mechanics May 27, 2008 Joe Pappalardo	Phoenix Lander Doesn't Crash, Snaps Pix of Mars (With Gallery!) NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander successfully touched down on Sunday night in an unexplored region near the Martian north pole.
Geotimes July 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Mercury's Gooey Center Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, has a large core, which scientists now know is partially molten and therefore could create a magnetic field around the planet.
Geotimes December 2006	Top Space News Stories of 2006 Titan's Earthly and Unearthly Features... Space Technologies Fly, Lift and Roll on...Deep Impact Still Impresses... etc.
Geotimes January 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Saturn Surprises with Southern Storm Earth, Jupiter and Venus have all been observed to support giant, rotating storm masses. Now, astronomers have found that Saturn, too, boasts a hurricane-like structure at its south pole.
Smithsonian July 2007 Eric Jaffe	Life Beyond Earth An ocean on Mars. An Earth-like planet light years away. The evidence is mounting, but are astronomers ready to say we're not alone?
Wired December 2004 Patrick Di Justo	Mysteries of the Cosmos The top 13 places to explore in outer space.
Geotimes August 2005 Megan Sever	Icy Methane Volcano on Titan New images taken by the Cassini spacecraft during a flyby of Saturn's largest satellite are now revealing what researchers think is evidence of a large volcano on Titan that could be erupting methane.
IEEE Spectrum September 2007 Suhas Sreedhar	Night Life as Seen From Space Scientists plan satellite to snap pictures of cities at night.
Geotimes September 2003 Naomi Lubick	Final mission for Galileo A small, sturdy spacecraft known as Galileo will plunge into Jupiter's atmosphere this Sunday at about 4 p.m. EST, after eight surprisingly productive years of observing the giant gassy planet and its moons.
Chemistry World December 2009 Jon Cartright	Reading between the lines Since its emergence in the mid 19th century, spectroscopy has become the most important tool in astronomy, and in recent years there has been no end to its new discoveries.
Geotimes January 2004 Naomi Lubick	Mars Update: Opportunity lands Two rovers now inhabit Mars, after the latest of NASA's robot explorers, Opportunity, landed safely over the weekend. Following a brief hiccup last week when its twin went momentarily silent, Opportunity touched down on Saturday night, half a planet away from Spirit.
Geotimes July 2005 McFadden & Schultz	Collision Course: Deep Impact The Deep Impact project will shed light on some fundamental scientific questions about comets, including what they are made of and how they formed.
Chemistry World November 29, 2012 Jon Evans	Messenger spots Mercury performing organic chemistry Nasa's Messenger spacecraft has uncovered evidence that not only does water ice exist on the surface of the planet Mercury, but in many places this ice appears to be covered in a 10cm-thick layer of soot-like organic material.
Geotimes August 2003 Matt Shindell	Mars Express for geologists Although Mars Express largely relies on old technologies, in many ways replicating past experiments, it can only contribute to an ever-growing body of knowledge about the early history of Mars and its water, and the processes that shape the planet today.
Popular Mechanics December 2005 Aldrin & Noland	Roadmap To Mars So far, NASA's plan to reach the red planet has been short on detail. Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin unveils his own step-by-step proposal for mankind's next giant leap.
IEEE Spectrum December 2012 Toth & Turyshev	Finding the Source of the Pioneer Anomaly Thirty years ago, the first spacecraft sent to explore the outer solar system started slowing unexpectedly. Now we finally know what happened
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2007 Courtney E. Howard	NASA Equips Phoenix Mars Lander with Latest Electronics NASA engineers readied the Phoenix Mars Lander for a mission to Mars's arctic landscape with an array of advanced electronics. These research tools will aid in NASA's first exploration of a potential Martian habitat.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007	Cassini Camera Sees Into the Eye of a Storm on Saturn NASA's Cassini spacecraft has seen something never before seen on another planet-a hurricane-like storm at Saturn's south pole with a well-developed eye, ringed by towering clouds.
Geotimes July 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Vortex Visible on Venus New images of Venus reveal that hovering above the southern pole is an enormous vortex structure of clouds, similar to one found at the previously imaged north pole.
Chemistry World August 2007 Richard Corfield	Makeshift to Mars The red planet has claimed many a plucky spacecraft. How NASA's latest attempt hopes to overcome the odds with a different approach.
Wired June 2001 Oliver Morton	Shadow Science Looking for Earth-like planets outside the solar system? Bill Borucki's cheap little spacecraft can help you find a few hundred, fast...
IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Barry E. DiGregorio	China Reaches For the Red Planet A joint project with Russia anticipates retrieving soil from the Martian moon Phobos.
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Barry E. DiGregorio	No Asteroid Impact on Mars After All The expected asteroid impact would have let scientists study crater formation and underlying Martian geology.
IEEE Spectrum January 2011 Erico Guizzo	Planetary Rovers: Are We Alone? Planetary rovers attempt to answer the most profound question in science
Smithsonian October 2006 Robert Irion	The Planet Hunters Never mind the demotion of Pluto to a dwarf planet. Astronomers have found about 200 planets orbiting other stars, and they say it's only a matter of time before they discover another Earth.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Anatoly Zak	A Russian Return to a Martian Moon Russia hopes to reignite its deep-space program with a mission to Phobos
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Joshua J. Romero	Mars For The Rest Of Us Better cameras, greater bandwidth, and bigger displays put Mars within reach of armchair explorers and by maximizing what can be done from the ground NASA can make Mars exploration politically sustainable and financially worthwhile.
Popular Mechanics May 27, 2008 Andrew Kessler	After 'Hole-in-One' Landing, Phoenix Mission Control Digs Ahead Though mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab may have temporarily been at the helm of the Phoenix Mars Lander, it's the science team here at the University of Arizona that will steer the rest of the landmark mission.
Geotimes May 2005 Laura Stafford	Saturn's New Moon In a small space between Saturn's rings, scientists discovered a previously unknown moon, currently known as S/2005 S1, from the images sent back to Earth from Cassini less than a year after the spacecraft began orbiting Saturn.
Scientific American November 2008 John Rennie	Looking at Moons from Apollo 8 and Cassini When this world has you down, try looking at it from another one
Popular Mechanics December 18, 2008 Andrew Moseman	Findings on Saturn's Moon Titan: You Say Ice-Spewing Volcano, I Say Squiggly Lines Rosalyn Lopes of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory made the case at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco that icy volcanoes exist on Titan.
Wired December 2004 Steven Kotler	Next Stop, Europa The most promising place in the solar system to find life isn't Mars - it's Europa, one of 16 moons orbiting Jupiter.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	NASA: "There Is Liquid Water Today On The Surface Of Mars" This is huge news for space agencies worldwide, and could make it easier to look for signs of life on the red planet.
Chemistry World September 30, 2011 Jon Cartwright	Messenger Sheds Light on Mercury's Formation NASA's Messenger spacecraft is bringing new understanding to the question of how Mercury formed. The new information looks set to rewrite theories about the birth of the solar system's smallest planet.
Chemistry World July 27, 2015 Katrina Kramer	A space traveller's guide to the solar system Mark Thompson will take you on a holiday around our solar system in his new book, A space traveler's guide to the solar system -- a journey that promises to be both terrifying and awe-inspiring.
Geotimes July 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Jupiter's Junior Red Spot Jupiter's famed Great Red Spot has a new companion.
Popular Mechanics October 24, 2008 Andrew Moseman	Scientists Fixing Hubble Contend With Antiquated Computers NASA scientists trying to find out what went wrong during last week's repair of the Hubble Space Telescope find themselves dealing with 486 processors and other outdated computer technology.
Geotimes July 2007 Carolyn Gramling	X-ray Eyes in the Sky Scientists are working on the next generation of low-orbiting satellites that they hope will see far past the Earth's surface and into its interior, to better understand the structure and composition of Earth's crust, mantle and core.
Chemistry World August 2009 Richard Corfield	One giant leap NASA's Apollo missions answered many questions about the Moon - and as NASA unveils plans to return, lunar chemistry will again play a prominent role
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IEEE Spectrum November 2007 Saswato R. Das	Terraforming Mars The renewed focus on Mars has rejuvenated the idea of terraforming Mars, which once belonged to the realm of science fiction, but is becoming increasingly possible today.