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ESA, India to cooperate on lunar exploration mission

On 17 March the ESA Council, at its meeting in Paris, unanimously approved a cooperation agreement between ESA and the Indian Space Research Organisation for Indias first moon mission – Chandrayaan-1.
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Carnegie Mellon Detection System Finds Life in Atacama Desert

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Space news // 15 March, 2005 11:03:21
 Current Mars expeditions raise the tantalizing possibility that there may be life somewhere on the red planet. But just how will future missions find it? A system being developed by Carnegie Mellon scientists could provide the answer.

Moonrise above the Pacific

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Space news // 13 March, 2005 04:03:29
 During the spacecraft's Earth-skimming fly-by on March 4 (reported earlier by Hypography), Rosetta's Navigation Cameras captured images looking down and ahead.

Pluto's Horizon

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Space news // 10 March, 2005 09:03:18
 In March 1930 the Lowell Observatory in Arizona announced the discovery of a small, odd world, roaming beyond the known planets in a region barely visible through the most powerful telescopes.

Rosetta performs ESA's closest-ever Earth fly-by

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Space news // 06 March, 2005 03:03:39
 The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft performed ESA's closest-ever Earth fly-by on Friday, gaining an essential gravity boost in its ten-year, 7.1 billion kilometre flight to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

Can a human survive a trip to Mars?

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Space news // 03 March, 2005 08:03:10
 President Bushs recent proposal to focus NASAs efforts on manned space exploration has rekindled efforts to define the human limits on long voyages in deep space. According to Jim Pawelczyk, associate professor of kinesiology at Penn State and a payload specialist on the 1998 Columbia mission, there are three major "showstoppers" that need to be addressed.

First Rosetta Fly-By of Earth

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Space news // 27 February, 2005 12:02:24
 The European Space Agency's comet-chaser Rosetta will make a fly-by of planet Earth on 4 March 2005, and sky watchers should be able to see it with telescopes or binoculars if the sky is clear.

Beagle 2 Accident Report Released

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Space news // 21 February, 2005 03:02:45
 The British National Space Centre has today published the report of the ESA/UK Commission of Inquiry set up to investigate the circumstances and possible reasons that prevented completion of the Beagle 2 mission.

Mars Has Frozen Sea

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Space news // 21 February, 2005 02:02:25
 Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter has discovered a frozen sea under the surface near the red planet's equator, raising the possibility that life may exist there, mission scientists said.

Using global warming to create conditions for life on Mars

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Space news // 03 February, 2005 06:02:47
 Injecting synthetic "super" greenhouse gases into the Martian atmosphere could raise the planet's temperature enough to melt its polar ice caps and create conditions suitable for sustaining biological life.

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