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  • A new (left) and an old (right) crater on Titan

    Titan Gets a Dune "Makeover"

    01.17.13 - Saturn's largest moon may look much younger than it really is because its craters are getting erased.

  • Lauren White is turning on the valve that will send ocean water through a sample of material mimicking volcanic crust to see if organic molecules can be detected in the outflow

    Bubbling up Organics in an Ocean Vent Simulator

    01.16.13 - This week, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are running an experiment simulating a deep ocean hydrothermal vent to test theories about the origins of life.

  • This view shows the patch of veined, flat-lying rock selected as the first drilling site for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity.

    NASA Mars Rover Preparing to Drill Into First Martian Rock

    01.15.13 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is driving toward a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red Planet.

  • High-Resolution Self-Portrait by Curiosity Rover Arm Camera

    Mars Rover Curiosity's Team to Receive Space Foundation Award

    01.15.13 - The people of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission have been named winners of a 2013 Space Foundation award for advancing exploration of space.

  • This triptych shows a coronal mass ejection or CME as it burst off of the sun in the morning of Jan. 13, 2013.

    New Sunspots Producing Space Weather

    01.14.13 - On Jan. 13, 2013, at 2:24 a.m. EST, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME. The CME left the sun at speeds of 330 miles per second and is expected to impact Earth around Jan. 16.

  • Ultra high-definition TVs – sold for the first time in late 2012 and early 2013 –have four times the pixels of a current high-definition TV, but still have fewer pixels than the images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).

    NASA's SDO Has Plenty of Content for Ultra HD TVs

    01.14.13 - A new kind of television made headlines at the 2013 annual Consumer Electronics Show in early January: Ultra High Definition TV. The TV needs content and NASA's SDO has four months worth of sun movies for them.

  • Artist's concept of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover

    NASA Hosts Jan. 15 Telecon About Mars Rover Progress

    01.14.13 - NASA will host a media teleconference at 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST) on Tuesday, Jan. 15, to provide an update about the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater.

  • This still image is from an animation that re-creates the final descent of ESA's Huygens probe as it landed on Titan

    When Huygens Met Titan

    01.14.13 - A new animation celebrates the 8th anniversary of the European Space Agency's Huygens probe landing on Saturn's moon Titan. It was delivered there by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

  • Asteroid Apophis

    NASA Rules Out Earth Impact in 2036 for Asteroid Apophis

    01.10.13 - NASA scientists at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., effectively have ruled out the possibility the asteroid Aphophis will impact Earth during a close flyby in 2036.

  • Six extreme UV images of our sun, from May 2010 to Sept. 2012, as seen by SDO, track the rising level of solar activity as the sun ascends toward the peak of the latest 11-year sunspot cycle.

    Solar Variability and Terrestrial Climate  →

    01.08.13 - Researchers now realize even tiny solar variations can have a significant effect on Earth's terrestrial climate.

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