The week in pictures: December 1–7, 2012
In the past seven days, Curiosity's first analysis of martian soil revealed a complex chemistry within the soil, NASA probes orbiting Earth's Moon generated the highest-resolution gravity field map of any celestial body, astronomers discovered and "weighed" an infant solar system,
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/CSM GRAIL creates most accurate Moon gravity map Data from the twin spacecraft show that our satellite’s gravity field is
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