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Life feeling a bit ordinary? Travel choices a bit tame? Head beyond the asteroid belt for an out-of-this-world experience. Welcome to Jupiter, home of high-adrenaline adventure. Plunge into its mysterious depth. You drop through the clouds, it would
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Jupiter is a planet that knows how to exert its influence on the solar system, and how to impress even the season traveler. You can fly around the earth in a jumbo jet in less than two days. Try this on Jumbo Jupiter and youll be in the air for three
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When the space hardened Voyagers I and II flew past in 1979 on their way to the outer solar system, Jupiters great mysteries only deepened. How were these powerful magnetic storms generated inside a giant ball of gas? Why was one moon boiling with vo
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Picture a suicide dive into the mysterious depth? Relax, Galileo's already done it for you. We separated the probe from the Galileo mother ship. We were flying in toward Jupiter, basically a ballistic bullet. The Galileo probe went in at an unbelieva
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This could be the most terrifying sight in the solar system: clear skies above a bottomless pit, an infernal drop into the depth of Jupiters endless sky. You may have raindrops evaporating into the hot interiors of Jupiter, but there is no ocean down
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Halfway there, you bump into the Asteroid Belt. It is not like in the movies where you are dodging asteroids at every second. It is a The space is very big and the asteroids are a long distance apart, so you could travel through it quite safely. The
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Every time we send aspacecraft to answer questions, we end up asking more. Clearly, a return to Jupiter isn't to stars. (Here we go.) In 2003, with fuel andpower running low, Galileo's 14-year odyssey was brought to an end,deliberately to ensure Euro
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If gravity measurement showed no solid core, then Jupiter formed early like the Sun, with a core then its birth came later when solid materials were created. By measuring water content, Juno should also reveal how hot the solar system was, when Jupit
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When Galileo took a closer look at Europa, the picture changed. Europa is a fascinating object. If you imagine descending onto a world that looks every place like the frozen ways of the Arctic and the Antarctic, youll get a pretty good impression of
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the processes that hit Io or operating on Europa as well, but on a less dramatic scale. and so was this constant change(s) in Jupiter's gravitational pull that is distorting the surface and that's generating heat in the interior. This is a clue to Eu
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Steve Squyres Martian odyssey has taken him from pole to pole, visiting those places on earth that share at least some of the same characteristics. They are extremely dry, extremely cold or extremely dead. Death Valley is one of his favorites. This i
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Could life have been forged in the same way on both planets? When we sent the first probe to investigate in the 1960s, almost anything was possible. Originally in the popular imagination we thought that Mars might be inhabited by whole civilizations,
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Its been said that the first person on Mars is alive somewhere on earth today. Imagine its you. What do you need to know? How much you get there? What should you pack? What are some of the must-see sights and what should you avoid? Think of this as y
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There is no room to screw up on a trip like this, mental or otherwise. Once on Mars, you are likely to be stuck there for a year or more, waiting for a window of opportunity to ride home. And unlike a robot, the hopes and fears of the whole planet wi
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When we reconstruct our imaginations, Mars are 3 billion years ago. We tend to make it like Earth, warm and clozzying, but it wasn't. Mars back in its wettest warmth face which probable like Earth today in its coldest regions. So I'm imagining a plac
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You can make estimates of how much water had to have been flowing that carved these things, and you get numbers like 100, 200 Amazon rivers all cut loose at once, big, big amounts of waterfalls / across its surface. The other big attraction on Mars i
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It was 119 Fahrenheit here yesterday; really, really, really hot day on Mars ever get up to about 30 Fahrenheit and at night it goes to more than 100 below. Martian deserts are both frozen and sun baked. With no Ozone layer, UV levels are so high tha
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But still be able to use your hands. Not only will you want to move your fingers, you want to move around. NASAs lunar electric rover is a prototype for future missions to the moon and Mars. Its part vehicle and part space suit. I can just picture be
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Want to step outside to take in the scenery or pick up some rocks? As familiar as it might look beyond the port hole, Mars is dangerously alien. The upside is the low gravity will give you super jumping abilities, the down, the almost complete lack o
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Before we take this giant leap, we need to be able to carry everything needed for a three-year -round trip with us. This is a much larger effort than getting to the moon. Its the Apollo mission on steroids. At this point we know at least as much as t
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