Projects range from developing alternative treatments for epilepsy to creating sensors that can see through the earth.
They did not draw a finger through the earth in search of seeds where seeds should be, where flowers were promised.
An experiment in Japan is looking for these answers by sending neutrinos through the Earth and counting them on their way out.
Later this year, Fermilab, outside of Chicago, will start sending a beam of neutrinos 500 miles through the earth to the NOvA detector near the Canadian border.
But the pictures are being examined by engineers back at mission control to ensure there is no damage that could jeopardise the shuttle's re-entry through the Earth's atmosphere.
Observatories such as GEO 600 bounce lasers down long tunnels, hoping to pick up the fantastically small disturbances the waves should generate as they pass through the Earth.
Over the past month, the periodical cicadas of Brood XIII, native to the area, have crawled up roots, through the earth's surface and onto tree trunks everywhere, to moult and spread wings.
As luck would have it, a project called NOvA, which should start collecting data in the spring of 2013, will send neutrinos through the Earth's crust from Batavia to an underground detector 810km away in Minnesota.
Those created in the atmosphere on the other side of the world, which then had to make the 20, 000km (12, 000 mile) journey through the earth's interior to get to Japan, would have had a chance to turn their coats.
It is an interesting triple "coincidence, " which probably evolved over time, that our eyes are most sensitive to yellow-green light, which happens to be the characteristic color of sunlight as well as the color that can most easily be transmitted through the Earth's atmosphere.
The STARSHINE (Student Atmospheric Research Satellite for Heuristic International Networking Equipment) will orbit the Earth through the end of the year.
Just as Mars -- a desert planet -- gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential.
These unsung passages function as the smaller veins feeding into the main artery of the Grand Canyon, the up-to-18-mile-wide, mile-deep gash in the earth through which 227 miles of the Colorado River snakes.
Supervise the development of outreach activities in the Earth sciences especially through the development of standard setting mechanisms for international cooperation and networking in the creation of Geoparks to raise the awareness of decision makers and the general public on the evolution of the Earth and its resources and the important role geoscientists have in the sustainable development of our planet.
As we were leaving the museum through the Rose Center for Earth and Space, past stunning images of the Apollo astronauts working on the surface of the moon, I asked her, for the record, why she'd never felt the urge to visit before.
But the increased ultra-violet (UV) solar radiation which the damaged ozone allows through to the surface of the earth is a threat to all living things.
"I am pleased to have the opportunity to share the environmental messages from AVATAR through the efforts during the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day and with Earth Day Network, " said James Cameron.
First up is the switchback level, the red earth tracks zigzagging steeply through the clifftops.
Sunday's eye-catching event occurred at the height of the annual Lyrid meteor shower, which happens every April as Earth plows through the dust and debris trailing a comet called Thatcher.
Thai royals, for example, historically had their bodies cremated many months after death, with their remains being moved from urn to urn until the final day of incineration, in the belief that the soul moves through a gradual transformation, exiting the earth and entering the spiritual world.
Diamonds make their way to the surface of the earth through underground volcanoes.
As you know, we've never had an airplane fly through any atmosphere outside the Earth, and we believe that an airplane, an aerial vehicle, combines the best features of an orbiter and a rover.
We were seized by a frenzy: we began to gallop across the continent, through the savannas and forests that had recovered the earth, burying cities and roads, obliterating all trace of what had been.
We are also working internationally with China, the European Union, South Africa, and 79 other nations through the intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations (GEO) to implement a Global Earth Observation System of Systems, or GEOSS, by 2015.
The spaceship, which will carry six passengers and be based in New Mexico, will be hoisted by a carrier craft to 50, 000 feet before blasting on its own to suborbit, where passengers will float weightless about the cabin and see space and the Earth through large windows.
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And all's well since it is growing better and when I go for a trial for the things done on earth, I think I'll get a verdict of 'not guilty' through my efforts to make the earth a little better than I found it.
Using amateur video footage, they were able to plot the meteor's trajectory through Earth's atmosphere and then reconstruct its orbit around the Sun.
The caving crew descends through tight passages hundreds of feet beneath the Earth's surface, guided by the gust of air that marks the cave's primary passage.
Thus, for the past two years, every prosecutor and regulatory agency on earth has been combing through the wreckage with the aim of filing fraud charges and throwing people in jail.
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You can drive a big Google Earth van through the hole to be opened up by future search-technology opportunities.
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