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Top space stories of 2004

Mars rovers

NASA’s rovers Spirit and Opportunity each turned up evidence that water had altered the planet’s surface in the past. Recent discoveries of atmospheric methane suggest life could be thriving on the Red Planet even now, belching out the gas from scattered oases. Click here for details

Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn

Saturn got its close-up as the joint US-European Cassini spacecraft reached orbit in July after a seven-year voyage. The craft revealed the planet probably captured its outermost large moon, Phoebe, from the Kuiper Belt, a belt of icy bodies beyond Neptune. And it turned up a delicate new ring and mysterious knife-sharp edges in Saturn’s famous rings. Click here for details

SpaceShipOne

SpaceShipOne became the first commercial vehicle to fly to the brink of space and back and won the $10 million Ansari X Prize in October. Click here for details

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