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MAVEN to Investigate How Sun Steals Martian Atmosphere
The Red Planet bleeds. Not blood, but its atmosphere, slowly trickling away to space. The culprit is our sun, which is using its own breath, the solar wind, and its radiation to rob Mars of its air.
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Launch Abort System Hardware Heads Back to Florida
A full-scale mock-up of the Orion launch abort system is hitting the road on a large flatbed trailer to travel from the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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NASA's LRO Exposes Moon's Complex, Turbulent Youth
The moon was bombarded by two distinct populations of asteroids or comets in its youth, and its surface is more complex than previously thought.
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Missing Piece Inspires New Look at Mars Puzzle
Experiments prompted by a 2008 surprise from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suggest that soil examined by NASA's Viking Mars landers in 1976 may have contained carbon-based chemical building blocks of life.
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The Moon Puts on Camouflage
A new geologic map of a lunar basin paints an instant, camouflage-colored portrait of what a mash-up the moon's surface is after eons of violent events.
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NASA and ATK Successfully Test Solid Rocket Motor
With a loud roar and mighty column of flame, NASA and ATK Aerospace Systems successfully tested of the largest, most powerful solid rocket motor designed for flight.
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Sensors to Guide Spacecraft to Safe, Distant Landings
NASA is developing technologies that will allow landing vehicles to automatically identify and navigate to a safe landing site.
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NASA's LRO Reveals 'Incredible Shrinking Moon'
Newly discovered cliffs in the lunar crust indicate the moon shrank in the recent past (geologically speaking) and might still be shrinking today.
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Ping Pong Balls to Float Crew Capsule Simulator
When students proposed using ping-pong balls to keep an Orion mockup afloat, NASA engineer David Covington laughed and thought, 'That's the most awesome thing I've heard in a long time!'
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NASA's ATHLETE Warms Up for High Desert Run
ATHLETE moon rover must prove it can go the distance before it heads to the Arizona desert for field testing.