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First ARTEMIS Spacecraft Successfully Enters Lunar Orbit
The first of the two ARTEMIS spacecraft entered lunar orbit this morning. ARTEMIS was the first mission to orbit the moon's Lagrangian points and this is the first ever attempt to move from the Lagrangian into lunar orbit.
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ARTEMIS Spacecraft Prepare for Lunar Orbit
It took one and a half years, over 90 orbit maneuvers, many gravitational boosts and little fuel to move two spacecraft from their orbits around Earth to their new home around the moon.
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Getting Ready for the Next Big Solar Storm
In Sept. 1859 the sun unleashed one of the most powerful storms in centuries. This week, officials have gathered in Washington DC to ask themselves a simple question: What if it happens again?
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Recalculating the Distance to Interstellar Space
Data from NASA's Voyager and Cassini spacecraft suggest Voyager could reach the space between stars sooner than previously thought.
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New Insights On How Solar Minimums Affect Earth
In 2008, the sun experienced its longest and weakest solar minimum in the modern age.
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STEREO Sees Complete Far Side
The is the first complete image of the solar far side, the half of the sun invisible from Earth.
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A Big Surprise from the Edge of the Solar System
NASA's Voyager probes are truly going where no one has gone before and are beaming back news from the most distant reaches of the solar system...It's bubbly out there.
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Surfing on the Sun, as seen by SDO
Cue the surfing music. Scientists have spotted the iconic surfer's wave rolling through the atmosphere of the sun. More than just a nice photo-op, the waves hold clues as to how energy moves through that atmosphere.
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Goddard Building Instrument To Study Reconnection
At NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, scientists and engineers are working on a crucial element of the the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission to study magnetic reconnection: the Fast Plasma Instrument (FPI).
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Voyager Set to Enter Interstellar Space
More than 30 years after they left Earth, NASA's twin Voyager probes are now at the edge of the solar system. The message is, "Expect the unexpected."