The duo traveled the country in a non-air-conditioned pickup truck in sweltering heat doing interior jobs.

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Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport -- InSight, for short -- was just confirmed as a new NASA mission, with the space agency set to launch in March of 2016.

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An example is a stark set of black-and-white photographs by Tomoko Yoneda, showing heat burns on peeling wallpaper above a radiator, interior shots of poverty positioned in such a way as to provoke and unsettle the upmarket diner.

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This is the theory that life is not merely a surface scum which clings to the outside of planet Earth, but that living things, in the form of so-called extremophile bacteria which can tolerate infernal heat, penetrate several kilometres into the planet's interior.

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