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Pasadena AP reports NASA s Polar Lander will go live Friday enabling virtual visitors to access Mars data pictures weather and audio from 157 million miles away at NASA s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Officials anticipate millions of hits as the landing nears and prepares for a historic online event.
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Pasadena
Calif
Mars
NASA
Earth
Kirk Goodall
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
South Pole
Mars Polar Lander set for Friday Mars touchdown
NASA reports Mars Polar Lander in excellent shape on track for a safe landing near the south pole on Friday. The $165 million probe fired thrusters for 12.6 seconds to hold course as it nears a 90 day mission studying water and Mars climate history.
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Pasadena
Calif
NASA
South Pole
Sam Thurman
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Chernobyl reactor shut down after water pipe leak
Ukraine officials say the plant’s only working reactor was shut after a leak in a backup cooling pipe. No radiation was detected. Repairing the leak is expected to take about a week with restart targeted by December 9.
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Kiev
Ukraine
Chernobyl
Chernoby Press Service
Oleh Holoskokov
Holoskokov
Europe
Ice Age clues hint at tools for climate forecasting
A University of Bremen team links ancient ocean currents to millennial climate shifts, based on Caribbean sediment data. Researchers propose a seesaw where Arctic and tropical waters trade heat, suggesting ocean circulation could signal future climate changes though some warn it may be a consequence rather than cause.
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Earth
Carsten Ruhlemann
Nature
Caribbean
Grenada
University of Bremen
Arctic
Tropics
Robert Webb
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
Ruhlemann
Jeff Severinhaus
University of California
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Second migration route out of Africa linked to India study
Genetic analysis of mitochondrial DNA from east African and Indian populations suggests a common African ancestor and a second migration wave out of Africa over 50,000 years ago after an earlier route to the Mediterranean and Greece. Researchers from the University of Padua report in Nature Genetics.
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Greece
East Africa
India
University of Padua
Italy
Nature Genetics
Middle East
Europe
Rome rush on Holy Year project sparks artifact loss
Preservationists and archaeologists condemn Rome mayor for pushing a fast Holy Year project and permitting trucks to haul away ancient statue and fresco fragments found dumped near a site where a multilevel parking garage was rushed to finish before Christian rites. About 40 demonstrators protested, waving banners calling to stop the reckless approach.
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Rome
Carlo Ripa di Meana
European Union
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