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Google Earth Goes Underwater, Flies To Mars - Fox News
karzok crater on mars in google earth. karzok crater on mars in google earth. san francisco — google inc. on monday launched a new version of google earth that allows users to explore the oceans, view 3d images of the planet mars and watch regions ...
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Scorched Earth: Small, Hot Planet Found
editor's note: this article was updated at 2:55 p.m. et to reflect additional perspective from another astronomer, questioning the claim that this planet is the smallest exoplanet known.
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Earth-like Planet Found Orbiting Far-off Star
small world only twice size of earth, but orbits very close to parent star.
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Small, Hot Earth-like Planet Discovered - Aol
(feb. 3) - what may be the smallest extrasolar planet, measuring less than twice the size of earth, has been discovered orbiting a sun-like star. the world is far hotter than ours, however. and controversy over the size claim has heated up, too ...
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Satellite Spots Possible 'sauna Planet' - Ninemsn
an orbital french observatory has spotted a distant world beyond the solar system - similar in size to earth but boilingly hot - that may be a watery "sauna planet". the exceptional find is just twice that size of earth and may also be a rocky planet ...
news.ninemsn.com.au

Scorched Earth: Small, Hot Planet Found
corot has found the smallest terrestrial planet ever detected outside the solar system.
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Cosmic Log: Super-earth In Sight
science editor alan boyle's weblog: european astronomers report finding a "super-earth" that's less than twice as wide as our planet, but up to 11 times more massive and hellishly hot.
cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com

Google Earth Takes The Plunge, Upgrades To Add World's Seas - Seattle Times
google earth takes the plunge, upgrades to add world's seas two and a half years ago, the software engineers behind google earth, the searchable online replica of the planet, were poised to fill an enormous data gap, adding the two-thirds of the ...
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Second Earth Rocks Scientists - The Sun
what on earth? ... similar planet found it is rocky, almost twice the size of earth and orbits its sun every 20 hours. but its surface is a red hot 1,000°c to 1,500°c and covered with lava or water vapour. the planet, corot-exo-7b, is 457 light ...
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Smallest Planet Outside Solar System Found By French-led Team
feb. 3 (bloomberg) -- astronomers have discovered the smallest known planet outside the solar system, a “hot and humid” object that is less than twice the size of earth and may have a surface to walk on.
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Smallest Exoplanet Is Most Earth-like Yet Discovered
a satellite has discovered the smallest extrasolar planet yet. it is just twice the size of earth and appears to have a rocky surface, though it is probably too close to its star to host life as we know it.
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Mercury, Schmercury. This Planet Is Really Toasty - Science Now
astronomers today reported the discovery of a planet beyond our solar system that's just twice the diameter of earth. but this new neighbor is far from habitable: corot-exo-7b is either a hellish world of erupting volcanoes and sizzling temperatures ...
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Smallest Exoplanet Is Most Earth-like Yet - Wired
the smallest exoplanet ever seen is less than twice the size of earth, and orbits a star similar to our sun. astronomers recently spotted this world, the most earth-like planet yet discovered, with the corot satellite . "for the first time, we have ...
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Terra Firma Down, Google Earth Moves To Oceans
internet company google has been documenting the planet's geography with its popular google earth software. it provides satellite imagery that allows web surfers to explore the earth's terrain from remote mountains to urban neighborhoods. a marine biologist had asked a google executive why google earth left out the oceans. on monday, the company unveiled a new version of google earth. it lets ...
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Fareed Haque + The Flat Earth Ensemble: Flat Planet
by eric snider by and large, flat planet is a sublime melding of jam-jazz, r&b and indian/pakistani music. it’s the kind of musical convergence that’s not easy to pull off, but haque — a guitarist of pakistani and chilean descent probably best known for his membership in garaj mahal — and his group manage it organically. most of the tracks groove along over a cauldron of trap drums laced with ...
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Corot Discovers Smallest Transiting Exoplanet Ever - Science Daily
sciencedaily (feb. 4, 2009) — corot has found the smallest terrestrial planet ever detected outside the solar system. the amazing planet is less than twice the size of earth and orbits a sun-like star. its temperature is so high that it is possibly ...
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Google Earth Now Includes Undersea View - United Press International
san francisco, feb. 3 (upi) -- google, the california-based search engine giant, has added an undersea view of the world to google earth. the new feature, announced monday at the california academy of science in san francisco, includes maps of the ...
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European Team Finds Smallest Transiting Extrasolar Planet Ever
( university of exeter ) the corot satellite has discovered a planet only twice as large as the earth orbiting a star slightly smaller than the sun. it is the smallest extrasolar planet (planet outside our solar system) whose radius has ever been measured.
www.eurekalert.org

From Science: Google Earth Fills Its Watery Gaps
a google earth view of maui, hawaii, from lanai island. the ocean images on google earth will soon undergo a significant upgrade. (credit: google) “two and a half years ago, the software engineers behind google earth, the searchable online replica of the planet, were poised to fill an enormous data gap, adding the two-thirds of the globe that is covered by water in reality and was blue, and ...
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Disneynature Earth Fun Facts - Earthtimes
the humpback whales in the film migrate 4,000 miles from the warm waters of the tropics to the waters off antarctica where they feed on krill and small fish. to avoid getting separated and losing track of each other, mother grey whale and calf keep ...
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