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Enceladus Exudes an Air of Mystery
Just as perfume lingering in the air of an empty room offers hints about a previous occupant, the cloud of oxygen the Cassini spacecraft encountered as it first approached Saturn turned out to be a calling card from another celestial presence, the tiny moon Enceladus.
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How to Bake a Galaxy
Start with lots and lots of dark matter, then stir in gas. Let the mixture sit for a while, and a galaxy should rise up out of the batter.
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NASA Missions Help Dissect Sea Level Rise
Sea level isn't, well, level. Nor is the rate by which sea level has been rising over the past few decades, but the trend is clearly up.
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Spitzer Helps Solve Mystery of Space Dust
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and other telescopes think they've found the source of the dust that permeates the universe. New observations indicate the dust comes from supernovas, violent explosions of massive stars.
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NASA Instrument Provides New Data on Floods and Droughts
A NASA instrument designed primarily to measure winds on the ocean surface is turning out to have other abilities over land that may help in both flood and drought situations.
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Saturn's Storms Run Rings Around Earth's
On Saturn, it may be a very long wait for the calm after a storm.
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Forty Years of Space Talk
"That's one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind." That famous communique from Apollo 11 during the historic first-ever moon walk was brought to you by the 64-meter antenna at NASA's Deep Space Network in Goldstone, Calif.
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JPL Performs First Two-Antenna Uplink Experiment
For the first time ever, NASA's Deep Space Network has used a pair of smaller antennas to successfully send two simultaneous signals to a spacecraft in deep space that were combined at the spacecraft to yield greater signal power.
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An Engineer's First Trip to Mars
Tracy Drain ticks off the complex chain of mission planning and software programming required for NASA's latest Mars orbiter to reach its destination.
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A Conversation With JPL Engineer Norman Ahmad
Norman Ahmad has a really cool job working on a new lunar rover project.
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Student-Built Buoy Launches Ocean Studies
A student-built buoy, launched this month, will send back data on ocean temperatures that will be available to scientists and students around the world.
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Stardust's Final Hours
The last few hours of the Stardust mission will be filled with significant milestones.
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Local Galactic Treasures →
Mined from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer's Survey of Nearby Galaxies data, these cosmic gems were collected with the telescope's sensitive ultraviolet instruments.
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Topex/Poseidon Sails Off Into the Sunset
After a remarkable 13-year voyage of discovery, Topex/Poseidon, the first great oceanographic research vessel to sail into space, ended its mission this month.
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Spitzer Exposes Our Galaxy's Deepest Secrets
Astronomers used Spitzer's heat-seeking infrared eyes to gaze at the dust-drenched plane of our galaxy.
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Opportunity Celebrates One Mars Year!
As Opportunity opened her robotic eyes for the first time, it was clear Meridiani Planum was unlike any place NASA ever visited before.
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Bump Into Mars Tonight
Look for Mars in the night sky on December 12, 2005, and wish Opportunity a Happy One Martian Year Anniversary!
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Spitzer Finds Cosmic Oddball
Planets are everywhere these days. They have been spotted around more than 150 stars, and evidence is growing that they also circle "failed," or miniature, stars called brown dwarfs.
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NASA Expands Rover Science Team
NASA has selected eight new members for the Mars Exploration Rovers' science team.
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Cassini Views Dione, a Frigid Ice World
Sitting in the tranquility of space is the pale moon Dione, looking as if it's posing for a painter.