PASADENA, CA - MAY 25: Phoenix principal investigator, University of Arizona, Peter Smith (L) and Phoenix project manager, JPL, Barry Goldstein address a final press conference before an illustrative video of the Phoenix Mars Lander approaching Mars at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) prior to today's expected landing of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander on a northern polar region of Mars May 25, 2008 in Pasadena, California. The Phoenix Mars Lander is the newest hope in the search for signs of life on Mars. Fewer than half of the Mars missions have made successful landings. At a cost of $420 million, the Phoenix Mars Lander has flown 422 million miles since leaving Earth in August 2007. Getty Images logo Getty Images 18 months ago

PASADENA, CA - MAY 25: Phoenix principal investigator, University of Arizona, Peter Smith (L) and Phoenix project manager, JPL, Barry Goldstein address a final press conference before an illustrative video of the Phoenix Mars Lander approaching Mars at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) prior to today's expected landing of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander on a northern polar region of Mars May 25, 2008 in Pasadena, California. The Phoenix Mars Lander is the newest hope in the search for signs of life on Mars. Fewer than half of the Mars missions have made successful landings. At a cost of $420 million, the Phoenix Mars Lander has flown 422 million miles since leaving Earth in August 2007.

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  1. This image provided by NASA Wednesday Dec. 9, 2009 shows the hexagon jet stream flowing around Saturn's north pole captured by the Cassini spacecraft. The last visible-light images of the entire hexagon were captured by NASA's Voyager spacecraft nearly 30 years ago, the last time spring began on Saturn. According to scientists "It's a mystery on par with the strange weather conditions that give rise to the long-lived Great Red Spot of Jupiter." he hexagon was originally discovered in images taken by the Voyager spacecraft in the early 1980s. It encircles Saturn at about 77 degrees north latitude and has been estimated to have a diameter wider than two Earths. The jet stream is believed to whip along the hexagon at around 100 meters per second (220 miles per hour).
  2. BANNING, CA - DECEMBER 8: Emissions-producing diesel trucks and cars pass non-polluting windmills along the 10 freeway on December 8, 2009 near Banning, California. Sustained global warming shows no sign of letting up according to new analysis by the World Meteorological Organization made public at the climate talks in Copenhagen. Although global temperature fluctuates from year to year, overall the decade of the 2000s is likely the warmest decade in the past 150 years covered by the report. This decade is warmer than the 1990s which were warmer than the 1980s, and so on. The conclusion meshes with independent analysis by the National Climatic Data Center and NASA.
  3. BANNING, CA - DECEMBER 8: Diesel trucks and cars travel the 10 freeway on December 8, 2009 near Banning, California. Sustained global warming shows no sign of letting up according to new analysis by the World Meteorological Organization made public at the climate talks in Copenhagen. Although global temperature fluctuates from year to year, overall the decade of the 2000s is likely the warmest decade in the past 150 years covered by the report. This decade is warmer than the 1990s which were warmer than the 1980s, and so on. The conclusion meshes with independent analysis by the National Climatic Data Center and NASA.
  4. BANNING, CA - DECEMBER 8: Emissions-producing diesel trucks and cars pass non-polluting windmills along the 10 freeway on December 8, 2009 near Banning, California. Sustained global warming shows no sign of letting up according to new analysis by the World Meteorological Organization made public at the climate talks in Copenhagen. Although global temperature fluctuates from year to year, overall the decade of the 2000s is likely the warmest decade in the past 150 years covered by the report. This decade is warmer than the 1990s which were warmer than the 1980s, and so on. The conclusion meshes with independent analysis by the National Climatic Data Center and NASA.
  5. BANNING, CA - DECEMBER 8: An emissions-producing diesel tanker truck passes non-polluting windmills along the 10 freeway on December 8, 2009 near Banning, California. Sustained global warming shows no sign of letting up according to new analysis by the World Meteorological Organization made public at the climate talks in Copenhagen. Although global temperature fluctuates from year to year, overall the decade of the 2000s is likely the warmest decade in the past 150 years covered by the report. This decade is warmer than the 1990s which were warmer than the 1980s, and so on. The conclusion meshes with independent analysis by the National Climatic Data Center and NASA.
  6. BANNING, CA - DECEMBER 8: Emissions-producing diesel trucks pass non-polluting windmills along the 10 freeway on December 8, 2009 near Banning, California. Sustained global warming shows no sign of letting up according to new analysis by the World Meteorological Organization made public at the climate talks in Copenhagen. Although global temperature fluctuates from year to year, overall the decade of the 2000s is likely the warmest decade in the past 150 years covered by the report. This decade is warmer than the 1990s which were warmer than the 1980s, and so on. The conclusion meshes with independent analysis by the National Climatic Data Center and NASA.
  7. BANNING, CA - DECEMBER 8: Emissions-producing diesel trucks and cars pass non-polluting windmills along the 10 freeway on December 8, 2009 near Banning, California. Sustained global warming shows no sign of letting up according to new analysis by the World Meteorological Organization made public at the climate talks in Copenhagen. Although global temperature fluctuates from year to year, overall the decade of the 2000s is likely the warmest decade in the past 150 years covered by the report. This decade is warmer than the 1990s which were warmer than the 1980s, and so on. The conclusion meshes with independent analysis by the National Climatic Data Center and NASA.
  8. BANNING, CA - DECEMBER 8: Emissions-producing diesel trucks and cars pass non-polluting windmills along the 10 freeway on December 8, 2009 near Banning, California. Sustained global warming shows no sign of letting up according to new analysis by the World Meteorological Organization made public at the climate talks in Copenhagen. Although global temperature fluctuates from year to year, overall the decade of the 2000s is likely the warmest decade in the past 150 years covered by the report. This decade is warmer than the 1990s which were warmer than the 1980s, and so on. The conclusion meshes with independent analysis by the National Climatic Data Center and NASA.

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  2. Supporters of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya waves during a rally to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Radio Globo, a pro-Zelaya radio station, in Tegucigalpa December 11, 2009. The poster at centre reads: "behind the electoral fraud, is the National party".
  3. Berlin's Nemanja Pejcinovic, left, and Leverkusen's Stefan Kiessling, right, challenge for the ball during the German first division Bundesliga soccer match between Hertha BSC Berlin and Bayer Leverkusen in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Dec. 11, 2009.
  4. British singer Natasha Bedingfield performs at the Nobel concert in Oslo, Friday, Dec. 11, 2009. Artists from all over the world gathered at the Oslo Spektrum to help spread the message of peace and celebrate this year's Nobel Peace laureate President barack Obama.
  5. U.S. actor Will Smith, right, and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith, left, host the Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo, Friday, Dec. 11, 2009. Artists from all over the world gathered at the Oslo Spektrum to help spread the message of peace and celebrate this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureate, U.S. President Barack Obama.
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  7. Yeman's National Security Agency Chairman and Head of the Presidential Office, Ali Muhammad al-Anisi, speaks at the inauguration of the 6th International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Regional Security Summit in the Bahraini capital of Manama, December 11, 2009.
  8. Protesters take part in a demonstration in favour of Western Sahara independence campaigner Aminatou Haidar in front of Spain's Foreign Affairs building in Madrid December 11, 2009. A tussle between Morocco and Spain over activist Haidar staging a hunger strike has become the biggest test yet of a diplomatic honeymoon which has boosted cooperation on security, illegal migration and trade. The signs read: Return to Sahara (L) and Sahara Free.
  9. British singer Natasha Bedingfield performs at the Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo, Friday, Dec. 11, 2009. Artists from all over the world gathered at the Oslo Spektrum to help spread the message of peace and celebrate this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureate, U.S. President Barack Obama.
  10. U.S. actor Will Smith, right, and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith, left, host the Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo, Friday, Dec. 11, 2009. Artists from all over the world gathered at the Oslo Spektrum to help spread the message of peace and celebrate this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureate, U.S. President Barack Obama.
  11. DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - DECEMBER 11: Saoud al Kaabi, Artistic Director of DIFF Masoud Amralla Al Ali, DIFF Chairman Abdulhamid Juma, director Ali Mostafa and Tim Smythe attend the 'City of Life' premiere during day three of the 6th Annual Dubai International Film Festival held at the Madinat Jumeriah Complex on December 11, 2009 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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  14. DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - DECEMBER 11: Javed Jaffrey, director Ali Mostafa, Sonu Sood, Natalie Dormer, Yassin Alsalman and Tim Smythe attend the 'City of Life' premiere during day three of the 6th Annual Dubai International Film Festival held at the Madinat Jumeriah Complex on December 11, 2009 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
  15. DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - DECEMBER 11: Saoud al Kaabi, Javed Jaffrey, director Ali Mostafa, Sonu Sood, Yassin Alsalman and guest attend the 'City of Life' premiere during day three of the 6th Annual Dubai International Film Festival held at the Madinat Jumeriah Complex on December 11, 2009 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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