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"Researchers have discovered an isolated, self-sustaining, bacterial community living under extreme conditions almost two miles deep beneath the surface in a South African gold mine. It is the first microbial community demonstrated to be exclusively dependent on geologically produced sulfur and hydrogen and one of the few ecosystems found on Earth that does not depend on energy from the Sun in any way.

During its closest flyby of Saturn's moon Titan on April 16, the Cassini spacecraft came within 1,027 kilometers (638 miles) of the moon's surface and found that the outer layer of the thick, hazy atmosphere is brimming with complex hydrocarbons.

During its closest flyby of Saturn's moon Titan on April 16, the Cassini spacecraft came within 1,027 kilometers (638 miles) of the moon's surface and found that the outer layer of the thick, hazy atmosphere is brimming with complex hydrocarbons.

A while back I saw a program on TLC, or I think it was TLC :?: .
Anyway, The show was about how life could have been "seeded" on Earth by Comets or Asteroids. This got me thinking, and researching.
The biggest argument against this theory is that the components that make up life ,ie the amino acids and proteins and other organic materials, could not survive the impact.
Well, A NASA-supported experiment reveals that complex molecules hitchhiking aboard a comet could have survived an impact with Earth.

A while back I saw a program on TLC, or I think it was TLC :?: .
Anyway, The show was about how life could have been "seeded" on Earth by Comets or Asteroids. This got me thinking, and researching.
The biggest argument against this theory is that the components that make up life ,ie the amino acids and proteins and other organic materials, could not survive the impact.
Well, A NASA-supported experiment reveals that complex molecules hitchhiking aboard a comet could have survived an impact with Earth.

This is an artists rendering of the new NASA Spacecraft called Orion , and it is a capsule based spacecraft.  This Apollo like vehicle is designed to succeed NASA's Space Shuttles, which are set to be retired by 2010. Even though it is based from the 1960's Apollo vehicles NASA says the new Solar powered Orion will be larger and much more technically advanced then the old Apollo vehicles.

The Martian feature known as the "face" is located in an area called Cydonia in the Arabia Terra region.

This area of Mars is a transition zone between the southern highlands and the northern plains, and it contains great valleys and ancient remnant mounds called "massifs".

In a photo (see above) that was taken on July 25 1976 by NASA's Viking 1 Orbitor one of these massifs became what is now known as the infamouse "Face".

Three days ago in Prague, the International Astronomical Union voted on and passed a new definition of Planets, which demotes Pluto to a new classification of Dwarf Planet. The actually definition for a Planet is: