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NASA's Twin Mars Rovers Continue Exploration
NASA's Spirit rover found a new class of water-affected rock, while its twin, Opportunity, finished inspecting its own heat shield and set a new martian driving record.
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NASA and the Universe Send a Celestial Valentine
The candles are lit, the champagne is on ice. All you need now are flowers and a ring.
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Physicists Hear High-Tech Whistle While They Work
It was music to the ears of physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, when they forced liquid helium-4 through thousands of tiny holes and heard a whistling sound.
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NASA Observations Help Determine Titan Wind Speeds
Strong westerly winds buffeted the Huygens probe as it descended through Titan's upper atmosphere last month, according to NASA-led observations.
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Cassini Spacecraft Witnesses Saturn's Blues
Colorful new images from the Cassini spacecraft show that Saturn's northern hemisphere has a case of the blues.
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Astronomers Discover Beginnings of 'Mini' Solar System
Moons circle planets, and planets circle stars. Now, astronomers have learned that planets may also circle celestial bodies almost as small as planets.
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Saturn's Bull's-Eye Marks Its Hot Spot
NASA astronomers using the Keck I telescope in Hawaii are learning much more about a strange, thermal "hot spot" on the tip of Saturn's south pole.
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New Imagery Sheds Insights Into Tsunami
Newly released imagery from three NASA spaceborne instruments sheds valuable insights into the Indian Ocean tsunami.
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Rover Finds an Iron Meteorite on Mars
Opportunity has found an iron meteorite, the first meteorite of any type ever identified on another planet.
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NASA Salutes Successful Huygens Probe
NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe today offered congratulations to the European Space Agency (ESA) on the successful touchdown of its Huygens probe on Saturn's moon Titan.
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Deep Impact Mission Status Report
NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft is out of safe mode and healthy, and on its way to an encounter with comet Tempel 1 on July 4, 2005.
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Deep Impact Launched and Flying Toward Date With a Comet
NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft began its 431 million kilometer (268 million mile) journey to comet Tempel 1 today at 1:47:08 p.m. EST.
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Spitzer Finds Stellar "Incubators" With Massive Star Embryos
A new striking image from the infrared telescope shows a vibrant cloud called the Trifid Nebula dotted with glowing stellar "incubators."
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NASA/French Satellite Data Reveal New Details of Tsunami
For the first time, orbiting satellites have observed and measured a major tsunami event in open ocean, the Indian Ocean tsunami that resulted from the magnitude 9 earthquake southwest of Sumatra on December 26.
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New Clues Found in Ongoing Mystery of Giant Galactic Blobs
Astronomers have numerous technical terms and numbering systems for describing the universe, but one type of mysterious object has yet to be classified. They are called blobs.
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NASA Details Earthquake Affects on the Earth
NASA scientists using data from the Indonesian earthquake calculated it affected Earth's rotation, decreased the length of day, slightly changed the planet's shape, and shifted the North Pole by centimeters.
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Spitzer Sees Dusty Aftermath of Pluto-Sized Collision
Astronomers say a dusty disc swirling around the nearby star Vega is bigger than earlier thought.
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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission Status
Even as the Spirit and Opportunity rovers complete a year of successful operation on Mars, the next major step in Mars Exploration is taking shape with preparation of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for launch in just seven months
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Saturn's Moon Iapetus Shows a Bulging Waistline
Images returned by NASA's Cassini spacecraft cameras during a New Year's Eve flyby of Saturn’s moon Iapetus show startling surface features that are fueling heated scientific discussions about their origin.
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NASA Goes 'Down Under' for Mission Finale
Culminating more than four years of processing data, NASA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency have completed Earth's most extensive global topographic map.
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