Images from this would have been sent back to Earth for up to 30 days for vital research.
This will enable it to detect planets as tiny as four earth masses up to 33 light-years away, and earth-sized planets (if they exist) around the sun's closest neighbours.
The US shuttle Atlantis and its six crewmen are heading back to Earth, wrapping up the craft's 32nd - and probably final - trip into space.
I'm on this earth to put up a feeble fight against the horrible tendency people have to think that there's a formula: If I do the following things, I'll get elected president.
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Then, to keep her upright and prevent her from moving, he buries her in earth up to her thighs.
But of course it took several minutes to fire up the laptop and get Windows going, then to pull up Google Earth.
But on Tuesday, the X Prize Foundation awarded more a million dollars for a more down-to-earth innovation: technology to clean up oil spills.
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Unfortunately, the earth's circumference at the equator is almost 25, 000 miles, so when we try to model the entire earth, and go up into the mesosphere (about 25 to 50 miles above the earth) the picture gets fuzzier.
That's for all the reasons discussed in my previous blogs on this, including the basic problem that the public might not be able to work out what on earth the Bank was up to.
Nasa has been linked to an Earth-based laser to push debris to up to safety or down to destruction.
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In theory, by delegating to the private sector the humdrum business of ferrying food and astronauts to and from low-Earth orbit, NASA hopes to free up cash to do other, more difficult things, including sending people to nearby asteroids by 2025, and on to Mars by the 2030s.
Surviving forces up to an earth shattering 1500 kg of static force is the proof that "THE CRASH" punches well above its weight.
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The probe was built to land on the larger of Mars' two moons, Phobos, and scoop up rock to bring back to Earth.
Sure, we are for Islamic self-esteem, but what on earth was Obama up to here?
This flyby will provide a unique opportunity for researchers to study a near-Earth object up close.
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In spite of round-the-clock work, progress on boring a huge tunnel into the earth was not up to mark.
What then might be the most rare-earth-intensive manufacturing to end up inside China?
Somehow, during the closing credits, I managed to come back to earth, just in time to head over to the Belly-Up, the venue for the book reading.
This looks like a re-run of the discussion leading up to the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, in which development groups angrily rejected any intellectual framing in which population growth in developing countries was identified as the core global problem.
The earth is asking us for that, asking us to join up again, to come back to our home which is this living thing, the Earth!
For more than six decades, gas companies have been using advanced technologies to hydraulically fracture and safely procure natural gas from up to two miles beneath the surface of the earth.
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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.
When Benevides pressed him to pay up, McLaughlin offered him Earth shares instead.
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This fabulous value starts things off hints of tobacco and earth, then things start to warm up with notes of bright red raspberry and cherry fruit.
He claimed the Nationalists had "promised the earth" to voters in the run up to the last Scottish elections but said they had "dithered, postured, centralised and deeply disappointed".
These were pretty drastic steps, with complicated consequences, but they do not seem to have caused the heavens to open up over Iceland, to wipe the country from the face of the earth (unless you're counting all those erupting volcanoes).
Over 20 million tons a year dumped, covered up with earth and left to rot.
You can drive a big Google Earth van through the hole to be opened up by future search-technology opportunities.
The Earth's need for forests to soak up carbon emissions is almost limitless.
Four hours after we touched down, Neil went out of the craft first to set up a TV camera pointed at Earth and take photos.
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