The Esa satellite's radiometer works by measuring the natural emission of microwaves coming up off the planet's surface.
Gates wants to wipe the remaining polio cases off the planet in the same way that smallpox was eliminated.
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For it really is true that the major cost and difficulty of doing so is getting the first 50 miles off the planet.
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Only fellow cosmonauts have stayed in space longer, including the long-duration champion, Sergey Avdeyev, who on three missions spent 747 days off the planet.
Michael Comberiate, a retired NASA engineer and manager of Goddard's Engineering Boot Camp said the Earth-bound Greenland Rover is similar to NASA missions off the planet.
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This is a now or never moment - kick polio off the planet over the next few years or face a humiliating retreat which could see the virus re-emerge in scores of countries.
MOLA, which works by bouncing beams of light off the planet's surface, has found mountains twice as high as Everest, a crater ten kilometres deep, and huge valleys carved by more water than scientists believed had ever existed on Mars.
Drew Goddard, who wrote Cloverfield and penned "Cabin in the Woods" with Joss Whedon, had drafted a script for the story, in which a high-functioning artificial intelligence turns against mankind and wages all-out war to wipe us off the planet.
However, when that person responds enthusiastically, and then asks for a copy of my book, or for more information, or wants me to do more research, or even strings me along for weeks with emails promising work or coverage, and then that person takes a nose dive off the planet, well, that is when I get mad.
"This will be one step in the long road to human expansion off of the planet into low-Earth orbit and beyond, " NASA astronaut Donald Pettit, one of Burbank's crewmates aboard the station, said Friday.
If you have a little model of the solar system at home, you can break off the outermost planet.
These rocks landed on Earth about 2.5 million years ago, after being blasted off the Red Planet by a violent impact.
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The ones who seemed to disappear off the face of the planet, like Macauly Culkin from Home Alone, and the men from Miami Vice?
They were all blasted off the Red Planet by some asteroid or cometary impact, and then spent millions of years travelling through space before falling to Earth.
The company is World Acceptance ( WRLD), and you may have thought that all such homely creatures had been wiped off the face of the planet by the financial crisis.
The far-off goal of saving the planet is not as effective a sales pitch as the more immediate goal of staying healthy.
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The concern was, however, that once the umbilical was disconnected in the capsule, that Baumgartner would lose communications altogether, making him officially the loneliest man on (or off, rather) the planet.
At about the same time, a team of professional astronomers was pulling off a similar trick for a planet the size of Jupiter in orbit around a star 32m times farther from Earth than the sun.
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Its texture and chemistry set it apart from all previous objects picked up off the surface of Earth but known to originate on the Red Planet.
We know that Earth, which was spun off from the sun, is a planet with a beginning.
This is one of the richest and most beautiful ecosystems on the planet, and for centuries its residents have enjoyed and made a living off the fish that swim in these waters and the wildlife that inhabit these shores.
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Sharp has taken the wraps off a 90-inch set, what it says is the largest LED TV on the planet.
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To do this the satellite would need to be in a synchronous orbit (one whose orbital period is the same as the period of revolution of the planet underneath), and the descending cable would have to be counterbalanced by an ascending one extending off into space.
But in 2010 Discovery cut off access to some of the most popular channels, including Animal Planet and the Military Channel, saying Sky Angel violated its contract by distributing them over the Internet.
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Plainly, Asia and the rest of the world could be facing a major struggle to ensure that the impoverished of Planet Earth wouldn't be written off by a group of American experts, no matter how brilliant and well-meaning they may be.
Three years ago, a BBC Trust report said the "scale and nature of the Lonely Planet acquisition" would not be considered again but at the time, it said that Lonely Planet would not be sold off.
As Mobile World Congress -- the planet's largest mobile-tech show -- prepares to kick off in Barcelona, Spain, we thought we'd offer this gallery to remind us all how far we have come.
The players can explore the planet, build an economy, and interact with friends, while overcoming barriers like fighting off space pirates in order to prosper.
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