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Cheers, Voyager: 35 Years of Exploration
09.05.12 - Thirty-five years ago today, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft launched on its mission of exploration. JPL hosted a birthday party in its honor.
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NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Begins Arm-Work Phase
09.06.12 - After driving more than a football field's length since landing, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is spending several days preparing for full use of the tools on its arm.
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SDO Sees Massive Filament Eruption
09.04.12 - On September 1, 2012, a long, whip-like filament erupted on the sun. The eruption, called a coronal mass ejection, caused aurora near Earth on September 3.
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NASA Announces Asteroid Naming Contest for Students
09.04.12 - Students worldwide have an opportunity to name an asteroid from which an upcoming NASA mission will return the first samples to Earth.
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NASA's GRAIL Moon Twins Begin Extended Mission Science
08.31.12 - NASA's twin, lunar-orbiting Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft began data collection for the start of the mission's extended operations.
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RBSP Launches - Twin Probes in Orbit
08.30.12 - NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes are flying in Earth orbit after a successful liftoff this morning. The spacecraft are now at home in the Van Allen belts.
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NASA's Dawn Prepares for Trek Toward Dwarf Planet
08.30.12 - NASA's Dawn spacecraft is on track to become the first probe to orbit and study two distant solar system destinations, to help scientists answer questions about the formation of our solar system.
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Walls of Lunar Crater May Hold Patchy Ice, LRO Radar Finds
08.30.12 - Small patches of ice could make up at most five to ten percent of material in walls of Shackleton crater.
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NASA's Jupiter-Bound Juno Changes its Orbit
08.30.12 - NASA's Juno spacecraft performed its first deep-space maneuver in its journey to Jupiter, firing its engine to refine its trajectory for a future Earth gravity assist.
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RBSP Arrives Back on the Pad
At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes arrives at Space Launch Complex 41 once again. The Atlas V ro...