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NASA's Solar Fleet Peers Into Coronal Cavities
09.20.12 - By understanding the morphology, density and temperature of coronal cavities scientists can better understand eruptions on the sun and the space weather that can disrupt technologies near Earth.
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Dawn Sees Hydrated Minerals on Giant Asteroid
09.20.12 - NASA's Dawn spacecraft has revealed that the giant asteroid Vesta has its own version of ring around the collar.
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NASA Mars Rover Targets Unusual Rock on Its Journey
09.19.12 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has driven up to a football-size rock that will be the first for the rover's arm to examine.
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JPL to Stream Mars Curiosity Telecon
09.18.12 - NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) tomorrow (Wednesday, Sept. 19), to provide a status update on the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater.
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Juno's Two Space Maneuvers are 'Back-To-Back Home Runs'
09.17.12 - NASA's Juno spacecraft successfully executed a second Deep Space Maneuver, called DSM-2 last Friday, Sept. 14.
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Deep Space Maneuver
09.14.12 - Earlier today, NASA's Juno spacecraft executed a second Deep Space Maneuver.
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NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Reveals Geological Mystery
09.14.12 - NASA's long-lived rover Opportunity has returned an image of the Martian surface that is puzzling researchers.
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New 'Chorus' Recording By RBSP's EMFISIS Instrument
09.13.12 - Radio waves, recorded by RBSP's EMFISIS instrument, are at frequencies that are audible to the human ear and are emitted by the energetic particles in the Earth’s magnetosphere.
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Hours After Launch, RBSP Takes First Science Steps
09.12.12 - Immediately after launch, RBSP entered a 60-day commissioning phase of operations, where all of the spacecrafts’ systems and instruments are activated, monitored, and made ready for the two-year primary science mission.
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New RBSP Instrument Telemetry Provides 'Textbook' Excitement
09.12.12 - Just three days after launch, live data of the particles in the Van Allen radiation belts from the two RBSP spacecraft, provides full science data right out of the box.