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| UpdatedThree years after placing a space probe on the moon, India has set its sights on Mars.
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| UpdatedThere is a good chance we will know for sure before the end of this century whether there is extra-terrestrial life.
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Tracks left by NASA's Curiosity rover as it completed its first test drive on Mars, August 22, 2012. The rover went forward 4.5 metres, rotated 120 degrees and then reversed 2.5 metres. Curiosity is now 6 metres from its landing site, named Bradbury Landing.
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| UpdatedNASA's Mars rover Curiosity has taken a 16-minute drive, its first since reaching the Red Planet to search for habitats that could have supported microbial life.
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NASA's Curiosity rover, which touched down on Mars four days ago, has sent full-colour panoramic photos of the red planet back to Earth.
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A 360-degree panorama of the Gale Crater landing site on Mars, taken by NASA's Curiosity rover, August 9, 2012.
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The first two full-resolution images of the Martian surface taken by the navigation cameras on NASA's Curiosity Rover, which are located on the rover's 'head' or mast, August 2012. The rim of Gale Crater can be seen in the distance beyond the pebbly ground.
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A 'self-portrait' of NASA's Curiosity Rover taken by its navigation cameras, located on the now-upright mast, August 2012. The camera took pictures 360-degrees around the rover, while pointing down at the rover deck, up and straight ahead. Those images are shown here in a polar projection. Most of the tiles are thumbnails, or small copies of the full-resolution images that have not been sent back to Earth yet. Two of the tiles are full-resolution.
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| UpdatedA 5,000-metre mountain towers in the distance as NASA's Curiosity rover begins its two-year mission of exploration on Mars.
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An image from the Curiosity rover shows one of its wheels on the surface of Mars, with the lip of the Gale crater to the right of the horizon, taken on August 6, 2012.
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After years of planning and nine months of travel, a NASA rover is to attempt a Mars landing. Dr Charley Lineweaver from the Australian National University explains.
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A Central West observatory is playing a starring role in NASA's attempt to land on Mars.
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| UpdatedFor the first time astronomers have detected the last gasps of a star being torn apart by a previously dormant giant black hole.
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Darren Osborne discusses NASA's panoramic image of Mars.
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| UpdatedA crowd of thousands gave astronomers heart while viewing the transit of Venus from the Mount Stromlo Observatory in Canberra.
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Staff at Canberra's Mount Stromlo Observatory say they are encouraged by the huge public interest generated by the transit of Venus.
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| UpdatedKeen amateur astronomer, 9yo Benjamin Huckel, uses his telescope and a piece of paper to show his 2yo sister, Tabitha, the transit of Venus as it passes between the Sun and the Earth, Adelaide, June 6, 2012.
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Venus passes between the Sun and the Earth, June 6, 2012.
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| UpdatedVenus passes between the Sun and the Earth, as seen from Europe, June 6, 2012.
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| UpdatedThousands converged on the Mount Stromlo Observatory on Canberra's western outskirts for a view of the transit of Venus.
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| UpdatedClear skies have provided good viewing for hundreds of Tasmanians training telescopes on the transit of Venus.
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| UpdatedMore than a thousand people flocked to Mt Stromlo Observatory in Canberra to see Venus pass in front of the Sun.
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| UpdatedVenus passes between the Earth and the Sun on June 6, 2012, in an astronomical event that will not be seen for another 105 years.
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Amateur astronomers watch the transit of Venus at Mt Stromlo Observatory in Canberra on June 6, 2012.
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Venus passes between the Sun and the Earth on June 6, 2012.
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