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NASA Hosts Teleconference About Mars Rover Progress
NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) on Thursday, Oct. 11, to provide a status update on the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater.
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NASA's Voyager Receives 'Breakthrough Award'
With two spacecraft on the cusp of interstellar space, NASA's Voyager mission is honored by Popular Mechanics.
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Deep Impact Spacecraft Completes Rocket Burn
NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft completed a firing of its onboard rocket motors earlier today.
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NASA Mars Curiosity Rover Prepares to Study Martian Soil
NASA's Curiosity rover is in a position on Mars where scientists and engineers can begin preparing the rover to take its first scoop of soil for analysis.
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The Helix Nebula: Bigger in Death than Life
What was once a fairly average star, not much different than our sun, can be seen unraveling at the seams in this new image from the Spitzer and GALEX space telescopes.
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NASA's Curiosity Rover Checks In on Mars Using Foursquare
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover checked in on Mars Wednesday using the mobile application Foursquare.
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NASA's Infrared Observatory Measures Expansion of Universe
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have announced the most precise measurement yet of the Hubble constant, or the rate at which our universe is stretching apart.
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NASA Radar to Study Volcanoes in Alaska, Japan
A NASA's venerable Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar is off to Alaska and Japan to assess volcanic activity in several active volcanoes.
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NASA Hosts Teleconference About Mars Curiosity Rover Progress
NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) on Thursday, Oct. 4, to provide a status update on the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater.
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Mars Rover Opportunity Working at 'Matijevic Hill'
NASA's Mars rover Opportunity, well into its ninth year on Mars, will work for the next several weeks or months at a site with some of the mission's most intriguing geological features.
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NASA Rover Finds Old Streambed on Martian Surface
Scientists are studying the images of stones cemented into a layer of conglomerate rock.
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Giant Asteroid's Troughs Suggest Stunted Planet
Data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft suggest troughs sculpted around Vesta's middle are likely dropped blocks of terrain bounded by faults.
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Study Examines Forest Vulnerability to Climate Change
Mid-elevation forests between 6,500 to 8,000 feet elevation are most sensitive to climate change, finds a new University of Colorado Boulder-led study co-funded by NASA.
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NASA to Televise Mars Curiosity Rover Science Update Sept. 27
NASA will host a news conference at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) Thursday, Sept. 27, to present science findings from the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater.
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Dawn: Vesta Got Special Delivery of Hydrated Minerals
Observations by NASA's Dawn mission suggest that hydrated minerals were delivered to Vesta in a radically different way than how they were deposited on the moon.
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Curiosity Finishes Close Inspection of Rock Target
NASA's rover Curiosity touched a Martian rock with its robotic arm for the first time on Sept. 22, assessing what chemical elements are in the rock called "Jake Matijevic."
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Shuttle Endeavour Flyby Brought an Old Friend to JPL
JPL employees, whose space shuttle Endeavour payloads gave us windows to worlds near and far, gazed skyward Sept. 21, 2012 as Endeavour paid the lab a visit before retirement.
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NuSTAR Celebrates First 100 Days
Tomorrow, Sept. 21, 2012, will mark 100 days since NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, launched into space from the L-1011 "Stargazer" aircraft.
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QuakeSim and NASA Mobile App Win NASA Software Award
NASA software that models the behavior of earthquake faults and NASA's first mobile application are co-winners of NASA's 2012 Software of the Year Award.
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NASA Mars Rover Targets Unusual Rock Enroute to First Destination
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.