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The spacecraft has also just entered its final orbit around the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system, L2.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>185</score><crdate>7/4/2009 2:04:26 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-07-04T14:04:26+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>20336</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/20336/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Early Moon Photos Revealed More Than Was Known]]></title><description><![CDATA[Newly reprocessed images of the Moon's far side taken by Soviet spacecraft more than 40 years ago may have confirmed that the Moon's biggest impact scar was glimpsed far earlier than previously thought.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>103</score><crdate>5/14/2007 9:43:37 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-14T21:43:37+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>117832</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/117832/1/</url><title><![CDATA[UFO Crashed Into Meteorite to Save Earth]]></title><description><![CDATA[Did a UFO deliberately crash into a meteor to save Earth 100 years ago? 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Earth&#8217;s land cover has been charted from space before, but this map, which will be made available to the public upon its completion in July, has a resolution 10 times sharper than any of its predecessors.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>249</score><crdate>3/17/2008 11:00:10 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-17T23:00:10+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>128341</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/128341/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Russia still blue over moon landing 40 years later ]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the moon, it was a first for the Soviet Union - the first time the U.S. had beaten the U.S.S.R in the space race. 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