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Years of Observing Combined Into Best-Yet Look at Mars Canyon
A new view of the biggest canyon in the solar system, merging hundreds of photos from NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter, offers scientists and the public an online resource for exploring the entire canyon in detail.
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Robotic NASA Craft Begins Orbiting Mars for Most-Detailed Exam
With a crucially timed firing of its main engines today, NASA's new mission to Mars successfully put itself into orbit around the red planet.
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NASA's Cassini Discovers Potential Liquid Water on Enceladus
NASA's Cassini spacecraft may have found evidence of liquid water reservoirs that erupt in Yellowstone-like geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus.
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Fast-Talking NASA Spacecraft Starts Final Approach to Mars
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has begun its final approach to the red planet after activating a sequence of commands designed to get the spacecraft successfully into orbit.
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NASA Mission Detects Significant Antarctic Ice Mass Loss
The first-ever gravity survey of the entire Antarctic ice sheet, conducted using data from the NASA/German Aerospace Center Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (Grace), concludes the ice sheet's mass has decreased significantly from 2002 to 2005.
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NASA's Next Leap in Mars Exploration Nears Arrival
As it nears Mars on March 10, a NASA spacecraft designed to examine the red planet in unprecedented detail from low orbit will point its main thrusters forward, then fire them to slow itself enough for Mars' gravity to grab it into orbit.
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Greenland Ice Loss Doubles in Past Decade, Raising Sea Level Faster
The loss of ice from Greenland doubled between 1996 and 2005, as its glaciers flowed faster into the ocean in response to a generally warmer climate, according to a NASA/University of Kansas study.
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Spitzer Finds 'Crushed Glass' Galaxies
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has observed a rare population of colliding galaxies whose entangled hearts are wrapped in tiny crystals resembling crushed glass.
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Local Teachers Fly Experiments on NASA's 'Weightless Wonder'
Teachers from two Southern California schools are taking their experiments out of the classroom and into NASA's "Weightless Wonder," a flying microgravity laboratory.
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Spitzer Uncovers Hints of Mega Solar Systems
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has identified two huge "hypergiant" stars circled by monstrous disks of what might be planet-forming dust.
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Scientists Surf the Seas of Space to Catch an Atmospheric Wave
A study by NASA and university scientists is shedding new light on a mysterious, cyclical wave in Earth's atmosphere that at times profoundly affects our planet's weather and climate.
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Mars Rovers Advance Understanding of the Red Planet
NASA's Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have been working overtime to help scientists better understand ancient environmental conditions on the red planet.
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Scientists Confirm Comet Samples; Briefing Set For Thursday
Scientists have confirmed that particles from a comet and interstellar dust have been returned to Earth by NASA's Stardust mission.
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JPL Hosts Public Hearing on Math and Science Education
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., where numbers, engineering and science create magical missions to planets, comets and other space destinations, will host a state hearing on math and science education. California lawmakers, educators, and an astronaut will testify.
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JPL to Hold High-Tech Conference for Small Business
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., will host the 18th annual High-Tech Conference for Small Business on March 7 and 8, at the Westin Hotel located near Los Angeles International Airport.
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NASA's Comet Tale Draws to a Successful Close in Utah Desert
NASA's Stardust sample return mission returned safely to Earth when the capsule carrying cometary and interstellar particles successfully touched down at 2:10 a.m. Pacific time (3:10 a.m. Mountain time) in the desert salt flats of the U.S. Air Force Utah Test and Training Range.
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NASA's Stardust Passes Moon, Just Hours Away From Earth Return
Less than one day of space travel separates Earth and history's first comet sample return mission.
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NASA's Comet Hunter on Final Approach for Sunday Landing
NASA's Stardust mission return capsule will land Sunday, Jan. 15, on the Utah Test and Training Range.
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Spitzer Sees Possible Comet Dust Near Dead Star
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted what may be comet dust sprinkled around the white dwarf star G29-38, which died approximately 500 million years ago.
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Cartwheel Galaxy Makes Waves in New NASA Image
A new image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer completes a multi-wavelength, neon-colored portrait of the enormous Cartwheel galaxy after a smaller galaxy plunged through it, triggering ripples of sudden, brief star formation.