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Geotimes February 2005	Touching Titan Little more than an hour after landing, the Huygens probe sent back its first shots of Saturn's largest moon.
IEEE Spectrum February 2005 Stephen Cass	Ayanna Howard: Robot Wrangler NASA's twin Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have already rewritten the book on the Red Planet's history, their amazing discoveries transmitted to an audience of millions. But Ayanna Howard is not content to let NASA rest on its laurels.
Science News January 29, 2005	Chaco's Past Explore the intersection of modern science and ancient cultures at a Web site about New Mexico's Chaco Canyon, launched by the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
Geotimes January 2005 Laura Stafford	Tiger in the Sky Two weeks before the space shuttle Columbia exploded during reentry to Earth's atmosphere, astronaut Ilan Ramon "saw" an unusual occurrence, a quick red flash in the upper atmosphere.
Science News January 22, 2005	A Year on Mars Catch up with the amazing, ongoing adventures of the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, still ticking on the surface of Mars.
Geotimes January 2005 Megan Sever	Huygens touches down on Titan Grins and thumbs-up signs began a press conference to announce that the Huygens probe had landed successfully on Saturn's largest moon.
Geotimes January 2005	Astronaut Geology Field Training The field trips in preparation for moon landings were designed as instruction about the specific landing site. We went to places that we thought would show geologic features and problems similar to those they would encounter on the moon, such as impact craters and volcanic areas.
Geotimes January 2005 Naomi Lubick	Bombing a Comet Yesterday at 1:47 p.m. EST, NASA successfully launched a rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., carrying the Deep Impact spacecraft toward its rendezvous with a comet.
The Motley Fool January 10, 2005 Tim Beyers	Stocks' Final Frontier As we reach for the stars, are there opportunities for investors in the new space race?
Reason January 2005 George Passantino	Private Flight SpaceShipOne, the privately funded space vehicle, has returned to earth with the $10 million Ansari X-Prize. That one small trip for a ship was a giant leap away from the government's monopoly on space travel.
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