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Futurists have always looked to Mars.
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Exploration for exoplanets is underway.
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Creative thinkers and problem solving.
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Citizen scientists and exoplanets.
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A 'pale blue dot' reminder.
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Hopping around to find life.
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Ingenuity will be the first Martian helicopter.
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Circling the Earth daily on a space platform.
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Infrared images reveal Titan's strange landscapes.
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A dwarf planet like no other.
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In honor of the 15th anniversary in 2005 for the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA released a photograph of the Fairy Pillar, part of the Eagle Nebula. The entire nebula is a stellar nursery where many new stars are forming. At one point, gravity will collapse the nebula inward to the new stars.
[caption id="attachment_6791" align="aligncenter" width="502" caption="Fairy Pillar as seen by the Hubble telescope (source: NASA)"][/caption]
The Fairy Pillar is one of many ...
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NASA has produced a video illustrating the launch, landing, and analysis they hope will happen when the Mars Science Laboratory, aka, Curiosity reaches Mars next year. The rover's landing required some pretty cool-- almost SciFi like --engineering ideas.
Let's hope everything goes well for the robot laboratory as shown in the animation.
WHB