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NASA to Hold Curiosity Rover Media Briefing Aug. 22
08.21.12 - NASA will hold a televised news conference at 11:30 a.m. PDT (2:30 p.m. EDT) on Wednesday, Aug. 22, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to update media on the progress of its Curiosity rover.
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NASA's Curiosity Studies Mars Surroundings, Nears Drive
08.21.12 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has been investigating the Martian weather around it and the soil beneath it, as its controllers prepare for the car-size vehicle's first drive on Mars.
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Twin Probes to Study Radiation Belts
08.20.12 - Radiation Belt Storm Probes will study Earth's ever-changing radiation belts in greater detail than ever before.
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Voyager at 35 - Break on Through to the Other Side
08.20.12 - First of the Voyager spacecraft launched 35 years ago today.
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Curiosity Stretches its Arm
08.20.12 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity flexed its robotic arm today for the first time since before launch in November 2011.
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New NASA Mission to Take First Look Deep Inside Mars
08.20.12 - NASA has selected a new mission, set to launch in 2016, that will take the first look into the deep interior of Mars to see why the Red Planet evolved so differently from Earth as one of our solar system's rocky planets.
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New Insight on Mars Expected From new NASA Mission
08.20.12 - On Aug. 20, NASA announced the selection of InSight, a new Discovery-class mission that will probe Mars at new depths by looking into the deep interior of Mars.
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NASA Announces Curiosity Rover Media Events Schedule
08.19.12 - NASA will host several media teleconferences and/or news conferences to provide Curiosity rover mission updates in the coming weeks.
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Emerging Sunspot Releases Mid-level Solar Flare
08.18.12 - An active region, just beginning to rotate into view, released an M5.6 class solar flare last night at 9:01pm EDT.
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Tracking Electron Beams from the Sun
08.14.12 - Scientists used data from NASA's ACE mission to study jets of electrons streaming from the sun known as electron strahl. This aids understanding of the giant space weather system around Earth.