Earth_Magazine_October_2017

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MPO7SEHVSYXIWQE]LEZIJSPPS[IHXLILIVHW T he Silk Road — the ancient trade route that stretched thousands of kilometers fro ...

3I[QETSJ&VGXMGKISPSK]TYFPMWLIH A t first glance, it might seem there’s little more to the Arc- tic than frozen tundra, ...

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1SPPMTSTWLETIHMGIJSYRHMRGPSYHW A sky full of lollipops might sound like a can- dy-filled dream, but these “treats” aren’t w ...

+MVWXGSQTPIXI)3&WIUYIRGIWJVSQ*K]TXMERQYQQMIW E gyptian mummies provide archaeologists with a tanta- lizing window int ...

7IH5PERIX7SYRHYT W ith two rovers patrolling the surface of Mars, six spacecraft orbit- ing above it, and scientists here on E ...

2&7 Ĭ±ŸŸŅüƗljƗlj A Diverse Group of Missions Takes Aim at the Red Planet Timothy Oleson A bout every 26 months, the posi ...

efforts from a variety of space agencies around the world — and possibly a private corporation for the first time — some with pr ...

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seeking proposals from Indian researchers by the end of last summer for instruments to fly on “MOM-2.” The announcement stated t ...

accident that there’s this whole mission queue in a particular window,” says John Logsdon, emeritus professor at George Washingt ...

instrument package offers an advantage over Curi- osity’s organics analyzer, the SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars) instrument suite, ...

that will gain us access to biosignatures in a better state of chemical preservation,” protected from the cosmic radiation that, ...

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exists on Earth in terrestrial laboratories to answer that question, as well as many other questions.” ExoMars is not set up to ...

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Mars Exploration Program. “Everything ground to a halt,” Hecht says, and the planned Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander, similar in desig ...

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Terri Cook and Lon Abbott W hen it comes to U.S. volcanoes, most people think of Hawaii, Alaska, or Mount St. Helens and Mount R ...