The von Kármán Lecture Series: 2007

January 2004. Twin Rovers landed on opposite sides of Mars. Each Rover was to explore the surface for 90 days. Three years later, each rover approaches their third anniversary with exciting new areas to explore.

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NASA's next venture into the solar system is the Dawn mission, planned for launch in June 2007.

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Launched August 12, 2005 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter finished its aerobraking phase on August 30, 2006.

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Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas released into the atmosphere by fossil fuel combustion and other human activities.

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In the vast blackness of space, our home planet is a single sparkling oasis of life.

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Launching in August 2007 for arrival in late May 2008, the Phoenix mission will bring 11 science experiments to explore the nothern near-polar environment on Mars.

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In 1952, a group of American scientists decided the world scientific community should undertake a third International Polar Year (IPY), building on those carried out in 1882–1883 and 1932–1933.

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Active volcanism has been known to exist on just three solar system bodies — Earth, Jupiter’s moon Io, and possibly Neptune’s moon Triton

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Launched in 1977, the twin Voyager spacecraft were assigned an ambitious mission — to explore the giant outer planets.

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Meeting the challenge of predicting climate change involves the collaboration of many different types of scientists.

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Jupiter’s moon Europa may be a habitable world. Evidence points strongly to a global subsurface ocean beneath an ice shell.

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The California High School Cosmic Ray Observatory (CHICOS) project is a research array for the detection of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays — single subatomic particles that slam into Earth’s atmosphere with the energy of a brick falling from a rooftop.

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