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Newfound ‘super-Earth’ could support life

Astronomers have discovered another potentially habitable planet – and it’s at least seven times the mass of Earth.
| by RT | 2012 |

Dwarf star HD 40307g hosts a system of six planets, and one of those is believed have the potential to support human life.

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Mars rover Curiosity lands on surface of Red Planet

The Mars science rover Curiosity landed on the Martian surface shortly after 10:30 p.m. Pacific time on Sunday (1:30 a.m. EDT Monday/0530 GMT) to begin a two-year mission seeking evidence the Red Planet once hosted ingredients for life, NASA said.
| by YAHOO | 2012 |

Mission controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Los Angeles burst into applause and cheered as they received signals

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(PHOTOS) NASA releases the most spectacular picture of Mars ever taken…

A winter on Mars: NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the ruddy terrain which the voyaging robot spent the Martian winter
We might not be able to get there yet, but as NASA says, ‘this is the next best thing’.
| by Daily| 2012 |

From fresh rover tracks to an impact crater blasted billions of years ago, a newly completed view from the panoramic camera on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the ruddy terrain where the voyaging robot spent the Martian winter.

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NASA Rover Finds Convincing Evidence of Water on Ancient Mars

This color view of a mineral vein called "Homestake" comes from the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
A well-traveled NASA Mars rover has found some of the best evidence yet that water flowed on the Red Planet’s surface long ago, researchers announced Wed., Dec. 7.

| by Fox | 2011 |

The Opportunity rover, which landed on Mars nearly eight years ago, has discovered a thin, bright mineral vein along

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Second Earth Found? Location Is Promising

This artist's conception illustrates Kepler-22b, a planet known to comfortably circle in the habitable zone of a sun-like star. It is the first planet that NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed to orbit in a star's "habitable zone" -- the region around a star where liquid water, a requirement for life on Earth, could persist.
NASA announced a major milestone in the quest for life in the universe Monday: The discovery of another planet close enough to the sun it orbits to potentially support life.
| by FOX | 2011 |

Called Kepler-22b, the planet is about 2.4 times the radius of Earth and about 600 light-years away.