NASA is now targeting next Wednesday for the launch of space shuttle Discovery. The mission has been delayed repeatedly over the past month for tests on critical engine valves.
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Kepler Launches, Seeking Earth-Like Planets
A new spacecraft, built to hunt the heavens for other Earth-like planets, roared into space from the Kennedy Space Center overnight. The craft, Kepler, named after the German astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the planetary laws of motion, is to spend the next three and a half years in an orbit around the Sun, where it will count planets by looking for the tiny blips in starlight caused by planets eclipsing their suns.
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Ice-covered Martian north pole
The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), operated by DLR onboard ESA’s Mars Express orbiter, imaged the snow-laden region of Rupes Tenuis on the Martian north pole on 29 July 2008.
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