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The most accurate digital map of the Earth
The attractive field survey satellite of Europe GOCE has just completed a measurement map using the most accurate gravitational field method on Earth, bringing great ben…
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Amino acids help to understand the origin of life
NASA scientists discovered amino acids - the basic material of life - in a meteorite falling into Sudan in 2008.
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Pac-man appeared on Saturn's moon
The Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn has captured a very interesting scene of the small satellite Mimas.
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'Transport planning' on the Galaxy strip
A Harvard University scientist has published the traffic map of the Galaxy series described based on the London subway map.
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Satellite launches map a 1 billion star cluster
The European Aeronautics Agency (ESA) has announced it has reached an agreement to launch an astronomical exploration satellite to map a billion stars in the universe.
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The Red Planet once had a wet climate and rain
US scientists have published a new map of Mars that shows there was a large ocean in the north and valleys lying around the planet's equator.
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China completed the most obvious 3D Moon map
Chinese scientists have just announced that they have completed the most obvious 3-dimensional (3D) digital topographic map in the world today.
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The new map reveals the past of Venus
Venus Express has provided the first map of the infrared wavelength of the Southern Venusian hemisphere.
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The first images in the process of mapping the surface of the Moon
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LROC) camera captures and retrieves the first images of the Moon, beginning with the task of mapping the surface of the closest plan…
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Discovering cosmic dust clusters inside the Milky Way galaxy
An unprecedented map of the area inside the Milky Way has been revealed by astronomers.
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Astronomers map the history of the Universe
British astronomers are trying to expand our knowledge of the history of the Universe with a new project to understand the beginning and formation of galaxies.
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The four spiral arms of the Milky Way
A research team developed the first complete map of the Milky Way galaxy's spiral arms.
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India successfully launched the spacecraft to the Moon
India's first unmanned spacecraft will operate on Moon's orbit for two years to map three-dimensional space on the planet and search for precious metals.
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The halo in the galaxy is full of stars
The new map of the halo of stars around the Milky Way has recently revealed the structure of intertwined stars, many lines of stars have never been discovered.
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Observe the galaxies formed 10 billion years ago
British astronomers have created the most sensitive infrared cosmic map ever made. Combining data over a period of three years, they created an image containing 100,000…