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Solar Cycle Prediction: Fewer Sunspots, a Year of Calm
An international panel of experts has released a new prediction for the next solar cycle, stating that Solar Cycle 24 will peak in May 2013 with a below-average number of sunspots.
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NASA Selects Student's Entry as New Mars Rover Name
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, scheduled for launch in 2011, has a new name thanks to a sixth-grade student from Kansas.
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Magnetic Tornadoes Could Free Mercury's Tenuous Climate
Magnetic tornadoes could form open windows in Mercury's magnetic shield, allowing the solar wind to flow through and blast atoms off the planet's surface to replenish its atmosphere.
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Mars Rover Sees Variable Environment at Crater
One of NASA's two Mars rovers has recorded a compelling saga of environmental changes that occurred over billions of years at a Martian crater.
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Asteroids May Have Accelerated Life on Earth
A NASA-funded study indicates that an intense asteroid bombardment nearly 4 billion years ago may not have sterilized the early Earth as completely as previously thought.
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Mars and Earth Activities to Get Spirit Rolling Again
NASA's rover project team is using Spirit and other spacecraft at Mars to begin developing the best maneuvers for extracting Spirit from the soft Martian ground where it has become embedded.
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STEREO Spies First Major Activity of Solar Cycle 24
NASA′s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft has spotted the first major activity of the new solar cycle.
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Soft Ground Endangers Spirit Despite Gain in Energy
The five wheels that still rotate on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit have been slipping severely in soft soil during recent attempts to drive, sinking the wheels about halfway into the ground.
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NASA Releases 3-D Views of Space Station, Rover
NASA released an interactive, 3-D photographic collection of the International Space Station and a model of the next Mars rover.
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SDO Spins Its Way Closer to Launch
For three days, SDO sat on a slowly spinning "Miller Table" in the Spacecraft Checkout and Integration Area, a "clean room" at Goddard.