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NASA's GRAIL Creates Most Accurate Moon Gravity Map
Twin NASA probes orbiting Earth's moon have generated the highest resolution gravity field map of any celestial body.
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New NASA Mars Rover to Launch in 2020
NASA has announced plans for a robust multi-year Mars program, including a new robotic science rover set to launch in 2020.
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NASA Opportunity Rover Finishes Walkabout on Mars Crater Rim
The latest work assignment for NASA's long-lived Mars rover Opportunity is a further examination of an area where the robot just completed a walkabout.
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Scientists Find Ancient Microbes in Antarctic Lake
Scientists from NASA and other institutions have found bacteria beneath the icy surface of a remote Antarctic lake, expanding our knowledge of life in extreme environments.
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NASA Voyager 1 Encounters New Region in Deep Space
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region at the far reaches of our solar system that scientists feel is the final area the spacecraft has to cross before reaching interstellar space.
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NASA Mars Rover Fully Analyzes First Soil Samples
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has used its full array of instruments to analyze Martian soil for the first time, and found a complex chemistry within the Martian soil.
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NASA Spacecraft Finds New Mercury Water Ice Evidence
NASA's MESSENGER mission finds compelling support for the hypothesis of abundant water ice and other frozen volatile materials in Mercury's permanently shadowed polar craters.
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Update Set in San Francisco About Curiosity Mars Rover
The next news conference about the NASA Mars rover Curiosity will be held at 9 a.m. Monday, Dec. 3, in San Francisco at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
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Swirling Storms on Saturn
NASA's Cassini spots roiling storm clouds and a swirling vortex at Saturn's north pole.
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NASA's Cassini Sees Abrupt Turn in Titan's Atmosphere
Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft tie a shift in seasonal sunlight to a wholesale reversal, at unexpected altitudes, in the circulation of the atmosphere of Titan.
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NASA Study Could Improve Hurricane Strength Forecasts
Forecasters could be able to predict how intense tropical cyclones like Hurricane Sandy will be by analyzing relative-humidity levels within their large-scale environments.
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Herschel Serves up Solar Systems with Extra Comets
Astronomers have discovered vast comet belts surrounding two nearby planetary systems known to host only Earth-to-Neptune-mass worlds.
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Regional Dust Storm Dissipating
A regional dust storm on Mars, tracked from orbit since Nov. 10, appears to be abating rather than going global.
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Nine Radar Images of Asteroid 2007 PA8
Images of asteroid 2007 PA8 have been generated with data collected by NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar.
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One Year After Launch, Curiosity Rover Busy on Mars
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Mission launched a year ago today, putting the rover Curiosity on its way to Gale Crater, where it has been working for 16 weeks.
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Cassini Finds a Video Gamers' Paradise at Saturn
NASA's Cassini spacecraft spots another 'Pac-Man'-shaped feature, this time on Saturn's moon Tethys.
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Spacecraft Monitoring Martian Dust Storm
A Martian dust storm that NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been tracking since last week has also produced atmospheric changes detectable by rovers on Mars.
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Planck Spots Colossal Intergalactic Bridge
The Planck space telescope has made the first conclusive detection of a bridge of hot gas connecting a pair of galaxy clusters across 10 million light-years of intergalactic space.
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Curiosity Rover Preparing for Thanksgiving Activities
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity completed a touch-and-go inspection of one rock on Sunday, Nov. 18, then pivoted and, on the same day, drove toward a Thanksgiving overlook location.
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What Goes Down Must Come Back Up
In 2010-11, global sea level fell nearly a quarter inch. But, when it comes to long-term sea level, what comes down must eventually come back up.