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Latest Headlines — May 23, 2012 RSS Feed RSS
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has used a low Sun angle for a memorable view of a large martian crater.
Cosmos
New calculations show that the ideal time to study the cosmos was more than 13 billion years ago, just about 500 million years after the Big Bang.
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