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Dark Shadows on Mars: Scene from Durable NASA Rover
Late-afternoon shadows add punch to a false-color vista of Endeavour Crater on Mars from NASA's Opportunity rover.
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NASA's NuSTAR Gearing up for Launch
Engineers are installing the "nose cone" around NASA's NuSTAR, a black hole hunter. The mission is scheduled to launch no earlier than June 13.
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NASA's Kepler Detects Potential Evaporating Planet
A planet with a tail? NASA's Kepler mission has found evidence for what may be a disintegrating planet.
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Cassini Spots Tiny Moon, Begins to Tilt Orbit
NASA's Cassini spacecraft beams back closest images of Methone as it approaches Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
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Herschel Sees Intergalactic Bridge Aglow With Stars
The Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars.
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NASA Survey Counts Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
Observations from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to the best assessment yet of our solar system's population of potentially hazardous asteroids.
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NASA Lends Galaxy Evolution Explorer to Caltech
NASA is lending the Galaxy Evolution Explorer to the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, where the spacecraft will continue its exploration of the cosmos.
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JPL Invites all Earthlings to Annual Open House
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., invites the public to its annual Open House on Saturday, June 9, and Sunday, June 10, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Mojave Desert Tests Prepare for NASA Mars Roving
Engineers ran rover-mobility tests on California sand dunes this week in preparation for operating NASA's Curiosity rover after it lands in Mars' Gale Crater.
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NASA's New Carbon-Counting Instrument Leaves the Nest
NASA's first mission dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide moves a step closer to reality with the shipment of its JPL-built science instrument.
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NASA's Juno Spacecraft Images Big Dipper
En route to Jupiter, NASA's Juno mission has snapped a quick photo of a familiar sight in the nighttime sky--the Big Dipper.
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NASA Dawn Mission Reveals Secrets of Large Asteroid
NASA's Dawn spacecraft provides the first orbital analysis of the giant asteroid Vesta, yielding new insights into its creation with terrestrial planets and Earth's moon.
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Opportunity Rolling Again After Fifth Mars Winter
With its daily supply of solar energy increasing, NASA's durable Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has driven off the sunward-tilted outcrop, called Greeley Haven, where it worked during its fifth Martian winter.
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Overfed Black Holes Shut Down Galactic Star-Making
The Herschel Space Observatory has shown galaxies with the most powerful, active black holes at their cores produce fewer stars than galaxies with less active black holes.
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NASA's Spitzer Sees the Light of Alien 'Super Earth'
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected light emanating from a "super-Earth" planet beyond our solar system for the first time.
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A NASA Weather 'Eye in the Sky' Marks 10 Years
With 2,378 spectral eyes measuring our atmosphere, NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder might well be called a "monster" of weather and climate research. On May 4, it turns 10.
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Paydirt at 8-Year-Old Mars Rover's 'New Landing Site'
A crater NASA's Mars rover Opportunity drove for years to reach is paying off with evidence about wet environments older than any recorded at sites the rover has seen before.
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Cassini, Saturn Moon Photographer
NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully flies by Saturn's moons Enceladus and Dione.
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Black Hole Caught Red-Handed in a Stellar Homicide
Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close.
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Cassini to Probe Enceladus Gravity, Take Pictures
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be making a close flyby of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus on May 2.