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solar panels

Space

Delicate solar panels of Martian lander are tested before launch

The arrays are due to open for real in November to power a two-year mission to probe the guts of Mars and reveal how rocky planets' core, mantle and crust form

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Gundelach tubes

Physics

Ghostly images show the history of X-ray tubes

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pangolin

Life

Shy pangolin hides its face in Mozambique forest

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huts in snow

Space

Forgotten mountain shrine to a Soviet superstar of astrophysics

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light pillars

Earth

Spectacular light pillars rise up in frozen North America

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earth pyramids in Alps

Earth

Otherworldly 'earth pyramids' make the Alps look alien

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mouse-opossum

Life

Ravenous rainforest resident plucks midnight snack from thin air

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California fires

Earth

California's wildfires are driven by climate and human error

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Lake Baikal ice

Earth

The sparkling ice hummocks of the world’s biggest lake

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Danakil depression

Earth

Scorching hot springs house extreme life and a future ocean

Three tectonic plates are gradually pulling apart at the Danakil depression in Ethiopia, creating a hot, acid environment that could provide clues to life on Mars

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Space

Giant climate camera will watch how our planet changes

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Earth

The exquisite marble that sculptor Michelangelo couldn't use

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Life

Gang of ants surgically dismembers large, dead spider on Borneo

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Physics

Peek inside a gilded cage of liquid argon made to spot neutrinos

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