Available for iOS and Android, the objective of the space-themed strategy game is to build a colony on a mysterious planet in outer space.

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The stories come in order of composition, with dates, and in three sections, each of them flagged by a quietly resonant illustration (a view of the planet from outer space, a heavily restored classical fresco, a painting of a spectral cadaver).

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In 1977, two unmanned scientific probes were launched from planet Earth into outer space.

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The research could help test simulations of how the outer, fluid core generates the Earth's magnetic field, which shields our planet and the teeming life on it from harmful cosmic rays.

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But firms that make their money mining this planet say the Earth is one big, practically inexhaustible mine, with just as many unexplored corners as outer space.

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