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Why is Earth so dry?

July 30, 2012

Why is Earth so dry

Earth with large oceans, rivers and glaciers near the North and South poles, doesn’t seem to have a water shortage. But the fact is that she is 99-percent dry rock. Only less than 1 percent of its mass is water!

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Voyage of the Dawn (video)

May 25, 2012

Voyage of the Dawn spacecraft

Dawn is a NASA spacecraft tasked with the exploration and study of the two largest members of the asteroid belt: Vesta and the dwarf planet, Ceres. This video (below) features images taken by Dawn as well as animated recreations of Vesta’s most focal geological formations. Credit NASA

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