DailyDirt: Exploring Our Solar System

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Our solar system is a pretty big place, and we haven't really seen that much of it. But as we send out more and more probes and get fancier telescopes, we're learning about a ton of interesting phenomena that occur beyond our own planet. Here are just a few fascinating factoids and links on how we're exploring space without sending astronauts anywhere (yet). If you'd like to read more awesome and interesting stuff, check out this unrelated (but not entirely random!) Techdirt post.
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Filed Under: astronomy, cassini, geochronometer, mars, saturn, solar system, space, sun, titan, water
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    Anonymous Coward, 20 Nov 2012 @ 6:12pm

    AND Curiosity is teasing us now

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    Anonymous Coward, 20 Nov 2012 @ 6:35pm

    Our solar system is a pretty big place, and we haven't really seen that much of it.

    we've seen more of our solar system than anything else in the universe, we have not seen much of it !!!! we basically DONT see anything else..

    Mr HO, you are not too bright are you !!!!

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    claudiayanputri (profile), 20 Nov 2012 @ 7:58pm

    Thanks for the info, but I think this a very complicated problem.

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    kelvinB (profile), 21 Nov 2012 @ 9:40am

    The Universe Is not so mysterious

    I had a chance to read "Life In The Universe", it paints a very different picture of our solar systems and the universe.

    As life long astronomy enthusiast, looking up at the night sky, images, and imagining scale, represented such a source of inspiration and dreaming.

    This book has really brought down to anyone's understanding, that fact that life works according to nature. There is no escaping it. The need for resources, the need for relationship, the need for Knowledge...

    We must take care of this "pale blue dot..."

    Highly recommended.

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    lolzzzzz, 21 Nov 2012 @ 11:16am

    clicked a link but

    got some add and didnt feel like waiting 5 years for it to jsut go away....
    dotn even remember the ad so that was effective wasn't it...
    now ill make sure i never visit that site ....

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      kelvinB, 21 Nov 2012 @ 12:51pm

      Re: clicked a link but

      I am sorry did you say you clicked the url I posted and it didn't go there? That is odd. Please let me know if it works now.

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    Anonymous, 21 Nov 2012 @ 6:11pm

    Gee, could it perhaps be because the sun was DESIGNED that way? Naaah, we've gotta make things more complicated than they really are.

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