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Herschel Spacecraft Eyes Asteroid Apophis
01.09.13 - Scientists using the Herschel Space Observatory made new observations of asteroid Apophis as it approached Earth this past weekend.
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Cluster Finds Turbulent Eddies May Warm the Solar Wind
01.08.13 - A new study of data obtained by the European Space Agency's Cluster spacecraft may help explain why the flow of electrically charged particles and magnetic fields from the sun, the solar wind, is hotter than it should be.
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Cassini Suggests Icing on a Lake
01.08.13 - A new model by scientists working on NASA's Cassini mission finds that hydrocarbon ice might float on lakes on Saturn's largest moon.
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NASA's Big Mars Rover Makes First Use of its Brush
01.07.13 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has completed first-time use of a brush it carries to sweep dust off rocks.
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Curiosity Rover Explores 'Yellowknife Bay'
01.04.13 - After imaging during the holidays, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity resumed driving Jan. 3 and pulled within arm's reach of a sinuous rock feature called "Snake River."
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Solar Ballet on the Sun
01.03.13 - NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this solar eruption on Dec. 31, 2012, as it rises and falls with the grace and polished movement of a ballet dancer.
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Researchers Identify Water Rich Meteorite Linked To Mars Crust
01.03.13 - NASA-funded researchers analyzing a small meteorite that may be the first discovered from the Martian surface or crust have found it contains 10 times more water than other Martian meteorites from unknown origins.
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Heliophysics 2012: Year in Review
12.31.12 - A year-end review of major news coming from NASA's Heliophysics Division.
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Cassini Instrument Learns New Tricks
12.20.12 - NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is using its visual and infrared mapping spectrometer for more than looking at hydrocarbons on Saturn's moon Titan and dirt in Saturn's rings.
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Picture This: Vesta's Dark Materials in Dawn's View
01.03.13 - A new study of images from NASA's Dawn mission examines remarkable, dark-as-coal material that speckles the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta.