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NASA uses orbiting observers and robotic landers to investigate the planets, moons, comets, and asteroids of our Solar System.
Latest Features
SDO to Spike Vital Space Weather Data
Q and A with SDO Program Executive Dana Brewer
Read through a question-and-answer session with SDO Program Executive Dana Brewer.
NASA Extends Cassini's Tour of Saturn
NASA will extend the international Cassini-Huygens mission to explore Saturn and its moons to 2017.
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New Hubble Maps of Pluto Show Surface Changes
The images show an icy and dark molasses-colored, mottled world that is undergoing seasonal changes in its surface color and brightness.
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Prometheus: Over Easy
Looking for all intents and purposes like a celestial egg after a session in Saturn's skillet, Prometheus displayed its pockmarked, irregular surface for NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Jan. 27, 2010.
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Route 66: Cassini's Next Look at Titan
Sixteen days after last visiting Saturn's largest moon, NASA's Cassini spacecraft returns for another look-see of the cloud-shrouded moon - this time from on high.
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Newborn Black Holes Boost Power
Astronomers have found evidence that two supernovae blasts received an extra boost from newborn black holes.
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Rover Spirit Starts a New Chapter on Mars
After six years of unprecedented exploration of the Red Planet, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit no longer will be a fully mobile robot.
News Releases
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NASA Extends Cassini's Tour of Saturn, Continuing International Cooperation for World Class Science
02.03.10 - NASA will extend the international Cassini-Huygens mission to explore Saturn and its moons to 2017.
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NASA Announces News Telecon To Discuss Hubble Images Of Pluto
02.01.10 - NASA will hold a news media telecon at 1 p.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 4, to discuss the latest Hubble images of the distant dwarf planet Pluto.
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High School Students Can Send Experiments Flying with NASA
01.22.10 - NASA is inviting student teams nationwide to design and build an experiment or technology demonstration to be sent to the near space environment of the stratosphere, an altitude of 100,000 feet.
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NASA to Hold Briefing on Advanced Mission to Study Our Sun
01.19.10 - NASA is scheduled to host a briefing at 1 p.m. EST, on Thursday, Jan. 21, to discuss the upcoming launch and science of an unprecedented mission to study the sun and its dynamic behavior.
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Podcasts
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Audio and Video podcasts on NASA missions exploring our solar system.
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NASA's monthly guide to watching the night sky.
Media Resources
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Statement by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden at the National Press Club
02.02.10 - Yesterday, we unveiled President Obama's historic budget that launched NASA on a bold and ambitious effort to explore new worlds, develop more innovative technologies, foster new industries and increase our understanding of the Earth, our solar system and the universe.
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Statement by NASA Administrator on the Fiscal Year 2011 NASA Budget
02.01.10 - President Obama today has given us a bold challenge -- to become an engine of innovation, and the catalyst for an ambitious new space program that includes and inspires people around the world.
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