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100 Days and Counting to NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Landing
At 10:31 p.m. PDT today, April 27, (1:31 p.m. EDT), NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, carrying the one-ton Curiosity rover, will be within 100 days from the Martian surface.
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NASA's WISE Catches Aging Star Erupting With Dust
Images from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) reveal an old star in the throes of a fiery outburst, spraying the cosmos with dust.
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Cassini Investigates Titan's Chemical Factory
Saturn's moon Titan has a thick, smoggy atmosphere that's one of the most complex chemical environments in the solar system. How long has this "factory" been in business?
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NASA's Spitzer Finds Galaxy With Split Personality
While some galaxies are rotund and others are slender disks like our spiral Milky Way, new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show that the Sombrero galaxy is both.
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NASA Tests GPS Monitoring System for Big U.S. Quakes
A research network of Western U.S. GPS stations will be tested to see if it can quickly pinpoint a strong quake's location/size and aid in disaster response/tsunami warning.
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JPL to Host Small Business Science Forum, Supplier Fair
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., through its Business Opportunities Office, will host a supplier fair featuring 20 to 25 local and national high-tech small businesses.
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Cassini Sees Objects Blazing Trails in Saturn Ring
Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have revealed strange half-mile-sized objects punching through parts of Saturn's F ring, leaving glittering trails behind.
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Study Finds Surprising Arctic Methane Emission Source
The Arctic region is home to large reservoirs of the potent greenhouse gas methane. A new study with NASA contributions finds the Arctic Ocean may be an important source.
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NASA Image Gallery Highlights Earth's Changing Face
Just in time for Earth Day, NASA's Global Climate Change website unveils a new version of its "State of Flux" image gallery, which highlights how our home planet is changing.
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Cassini Finds Titan Lake is Like a Namibia Mudflat
Scientists with NASA's Cassini mission find that a lake on Saturn's moon Titan most resembles Etosha Pan in Namibia.
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Dawn Gets Extra Time to Explore Vesta
NASA's Dawn mission has received official confirmation that 40 extra days have been added to its exploration of the giant asteroid Vesta.
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Cassini Successfully Flies over Enceladus
NASA's Cassini spacecraft beams back images of the icy moons Enceladus and Tethys during its course through the Saturn system.
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Breaking the Ice on Icebergs
It's been 100 years since the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank. JPL scientists demystify these frozen mountains of floating ice.
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Cassini to Dip into Enceladus Spray Again
Less than three weeks after its last swoop over the Saturn moon, NASA's Cassini spacecraft returns for an encore.
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Herschel Spots Comet Massacre Around Nearby Star
New data from the Herschel Space Observatory suggest comets are constantly smashing together around the star Fomalhaut.
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NASA's WISE Mission Sees Skies Ablaze With Blazars
Astronomers are hunting a class of supermassive black holes throughout the universe called blazars thanks to data collected by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.
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Live Public Talk: Mars Science Laboratory Landing Site
Join us in person at JPL, or virtually via the Internet, on April 12 for a public talk about Gale Crater, landing site of NASA's next Mars rover.
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NASA to Fly Atomic Clock to Improve Space Navigation
NASA's Deep Space Atomic Clock will improve the way we conduct deep-space navigation by enabling a spacecraft to calculate its own timing and navigation data in real time.
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NASA Views Our Perpetually Moving Ocean
The swirling flows of tens of thousands of ocean currents are captured in a new NASA scientific visualization created with the help of JPL satellite and model data.
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NASA Extends Spitzer, Planck, Kepler, Missions
NASA is extending three missions affiliated with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., as a result of the 2012 Senior Review of Astrophysics Missions.