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...lonely Australian farmland and watched as the east coast of Africa shone in the midday sun. Using little more than a backyard telescope and a clever idea, she became the first person in history to see the continents and oceans of Earth by watching their reflections in the Moon. (See pictures of Earth from space...
...Anyone who has gazed at the bright sliver of a crescent Moon in clear skies has probably also noticed that the dark side is not entirely dark. The faint glow rounding out the Moon is earthshine: light from the bright day side of Earth shining on the night side of the Moon. Scientists have studied earthshine for decades - but Langford, along with her colleagues at Melbourne and Princeton Universities, decided it would make a perfect test case for detecting oceans and landmasses on a faraway alien world...
...place was warm and wet long enough for life to have taken hold - life that would have then had to retreat into underground water deposits and make the same kind of hurry-up adaptation Mikucki's microbes did. Similar adaptive metabolism could be in evidence on the Jovian moon Europa, where a layer of surface ice may cover a globe-girdling ocean. (See pictures of Mars' patterns...
...opened up and everyone wants to see what it's really like here," said Ms. Chen, a tourist from Fujian who declined to give her first name. "We've heard so much about it. That it's a beautiful place." So Chen and thousands like her visit the Sun Moon Lake and Ali Mountain - places that they read about as children in China but had always been forbidden to see. With them, they are bringing business to restaurants and manufacturers of typical souvenirs like mountain tea, fruit products, and, a particular favorite, the National Palace Museum's jadeite cabbage...
...added Brendan C. Quinn ’12. But they were somewhat appeased when they learned of NASA’s reason for dubbing the component Tranquility. NASA chose to name Node 3 Tranquility because of the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, which landed in the area of the moon known as the Sea of Tranquility, according to a NASA press release from Tuesday. Although the component was not named “Colbert,” NASA will call its new space treadmill COLBERT (Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill). The announcement was made Tuesday night...