Based on the Phoenix lander, the craft is tasked with giving us a peek beneath the planet's surface, armed with tools that include a geodetic instrument from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which will be used to calculate Mars' rotation axis, a seismic wave sensor and a subsurface heat probe, to measure the planet's internal temperature.
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These have been key to the IPCC's conclusions that the planet's surface is warming and that humanity's greenhouse gas emissions are very likely to be responsible.
With the Santiago business traveler in mind, CNN asked Lonely Planet's Bridget Gleeson, co- author of Lonely Planet Chile and Easter Island Travel Guide, to lend her expertise in selecting the city's best spots.
Several monster planets have been discovered by looking for the wobbles in a star's spectrum caused by a planet's to-and-fro tugging of its parent.
The Earth's core is important because it generates the planet's electromagnetic field - which seems to be weakening.
"It's been puzzling why previous estimates for the planet's interior have been so dry, " co-author Erik Hauri of the Carnegie Institution of Washington said in a statement.
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Among the programs added are Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs, TLC's Say Yes To The Dress and Animal Planet's Whale Wars, as well as thousands of TV episodes from MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, TV Land, Spike, VH1, BET, CMT and Logo.
As well as using high-precision monitoring to check for fluctuations in the star's brightness, the satellite will also determine the planet's radius.
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Astronomers have long theorized that there are many planets that have drifted away from their home stars, whether it's a too-loose gravitational pull during the planet's formation or a stellar tug-of-war.
Further differentiating itself from our world's whirlwinds, this alien cyclone is locked to its planet's north pole and is fueled by small amounts of water vapor instead of an actual ocean.
It's biochemically impossible to dislike San Francisco, one of the planet's finest towns.
From the earth's poles to the tropics, from the oceans to the planet's most fertile farming regions, global warming could present daunting challenges.
The country has 21% of the world's population within its borders, but only 7% of the planet's renewable water resources.
In today's high-tech age, science has all but exhausted our planet's secrets.
Globally just 0.6% of the world's oceans have been protected, compared to almost 13% of our planet's land area.
The planet's host star is dimmer and cooler than our sun, but the planet is also 15% closer than we are to the sun.
The Esa satellite's radiometer works by measuring the natural emission of microwaves coming up off the planet's surface.
But if the planet's orbit is nearly edge-on, as viewed from Earth, then the planet will transit its parent star.
The most basic of the indexes rates a world's suitability for life based on its place within a habitable zone, which is calculated by a planet's distance from its parent star, the star's luminosity and temperature.
Held in a scoop on the rover's mechanical arm, the tablespoon of pulverized gray rock offers planetary scientists their first sample from the planet's interior, where it may have been sheltered from the harsh surface chemistry and ultra-violet radiation.
Nasa's efforts to locate MPL are continuing with cameras on board the orbiting probe Mars Global Surveyor scanning the planet's surface.
But you don't have to win the planet's arguably most prestigious race to make a mint.
The pictures illustrate neatly the particular specialism of using radar to sense the planet's surface.
"Elon may be the planet's most exciting entrepreneur, " said SXSW Interactive director Hugh Forrest.
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But scientists say it came not much closer than 17, 100 miles from our planet's surface.
But scientists say it will come no closer than 17, 100 miles from our planet's surface.
Increasing the planet's resilience will probably involve a few dramatic changes and a lot of fiddling.
Kepler-10b, to give this planet's current name, is the latest discovery by Kepler, an American spacecraft.
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They can cause long-lasting radiation storms in our planet's upper atmosphere and trigger radio blackouts.
It galloped toward the planet's core, accelerating at gravity's constant 32 feet per second per second.
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