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    Europa's Blue Ocean

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    In addition to energy and chemicals, and one of the most importants emlements for life is water. So how can anything possibly survive in this frozen satellite? Well answer lies beneath the thick icy crust of this frozen natural satellite. Liquid water is absolutely essential for life and this satellite contains a huge global ocean that is more than twice as much water as Earth's oceans. Yet it is protected by a layer of extremely cold and hard ice of unknown thickness. Europa’s liquid ocean may

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    “Live and learn”: a classic saying that applies to everyone and everything. Sometimes people mess up on small things but, other times one flaw could lead to a huge mistake that people must learn from. NASA’s Challenger was no exception to this saying. Many lives were lost on the space shuttle including a teacher from Concord. However, this tragedy holds a story worth being told. On August 27th 1948, Ronald Reagan announced that NASA would send a teacher into space. “Directing NASA to begin a search

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    On April 12, 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. He received many awards and medals from that day forward. He was born in Klushino in Smolensk, Russia. His father was carpenter and his mother was a milkmaid. According to Sarah Pruitt in the article What Really Happened to Yuri Gagarin the First Man in Space states “At 16, he moved to Moscow to apprentice as a foundry man in a metal works, but soon transferred to a technical school in Saratov. There, Gagarin joined a flying club and took

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    The being depicted in the sculpture here is what is known as an “Elder Thing”. First appearing in Dreams in the Witch House by H.P. Lovecraft, these extraterrestrial beings are far from human. The Elder Things are a race of half-vegetable, half-animal beings, having the feature of plants and animals simultaneously. They are capable of reproduction via spores and enter into states of death-like hibernation, yet they also eat and move and have minds of their own. In the Lovecraft story, At the Mountains

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    Expository Essay Prompt

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    ENGL 1020 Paper 1: Expository Essay An expository essay is an informative paper that focuses on providing factual evidence to support a thesis or argument. The primary focus on expository writing is explanation. It is important to provide several specific details as basis to support your argument. For this assignment, you will need to provide your answer for the question provided by the prompt listed below. Prompt: In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager probes into space. Voyager I and Voyager II

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    October 14th, 2010, thirty-nine thousand (39 000) kilometers above the desert of New Mexico in the USA. A man named Alex Baumgartner is about to attempt to most audacious 10 minutes free fall for all human. Alone in a small capsule, Baumgartner was flown into the stratosphere by an helium driven engine. Wearing a special suit covered with logos of its main sponsor, Red Bull, to survive the free fall. The suit is connected with special devices that captures every instant of the stunt from the departure

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    Well, after reading through all the articles , id like to think that the archeology article included much more diverse and different technologies. Although treasure hunters and meteorologists have their fair share of technology, I firmly think archeologists have more advanced technology. The reason I think archeologists have more 'advanced' technology is because they have a lot of ties with nasa and other aerial programs to discover buried or even just hidden civilizations- blind to the naked eye

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    Observation Status

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    CMS has differential payment for inpatient and observation status patient services (Engoren. et., 2016). Observation status is covered under Medicare Part B, which is an optional coverage for beneficiaries and they are usually responsible for the co-payments, which is 20 percent of the Medicare payment for out payment services for such items as labs, x-rays and any medications they usually take at home. The beneficiary will also have to pay their yearly deductible for their Part B. The patient will

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    Coloniizing Mars

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    Colonizing Mars will be one of the largest challenges humans will face, but it will also be one of the greatest. People should go to Mars for many different reasons. Mars is capable of becoming a habitable planet for earthlings. It can support humans, but it must be prepared first. We must colonize Mars to help it sustain our needs. One reason why we should move to the red planet is because Mars has a large similarity to Earth. Mars may have ice underneath its surface as it had water on its

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    Keely Ruiz Life in Space Imagine, looking out a window and seeing Earth and the stars! That would be incredible! I feel that civilians should travel in space because it could help research and give privileges. If you don't think so you should read this. First and foremost, I think civilians should be able to go to space because it could help NASA find out more about planets. The article stated that “That may lead to more support of NASA and

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