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NASA's Kepler Detects Potential Evaporating Planet

A planet with a tail? NASA's Kepler mission has found evidence for what may be a disintegrating planet.
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Cassini Spots Tiny Moon, Begins to Tilt Orbit

NASA's Cassini spacecraft beams back closest images of Methone as it approaches Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
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Herschel Sees Intergalactic Bridge Aglow With Stars

The Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars.
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NASA Lends Galaxy Evolution Explorer to Caltech

NASA is lending the Galaxy Evolution Explorer to the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, where the spacecraft will continue its exploration of the cosmos.
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NASA Survey Counts Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

Observations from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to the best assessment yet of our solar system's population of potentially hazardous asteroids.
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JPL Invites all Earthlings to Annual Open House

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., invites the public to its annual Open House on Saturday, June 9, and Sunday, June 10, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Mojave Desert Tests Prepare for NASA Mars Roving

Engineers ran rover-mobility tests on California sand dunes this week in preparation for operating NASA's Curiosity rover after it lands in Mars' Gale Crater.
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NASA's Juno Spacecraft Images Big Dipper

En route to Jupiter, NASA's Juno mission has snapped a quick photo of a familiar sight in the nighttime sky--the Big Dipper.
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NASA's New Carbon-Counting Instrument Leaves the Nest

NASA's first mission dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide moves a step closer to reality with the shipment of its JPL-built science instrument.
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Overfed Black Holes Shut Down Galactic Star-Making

The Herschel Space Observatory has shown galaxies with the most powerful, active black holes at their cores produce fewer stars than galaxies with less active black holes.
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Opportunity Rolling Again After Fifth Mars Winter

With its daily supply of solar energy increasing, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has driven off the sunward-tilted outcrop, Greeley Haven.
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NASA Dawn Mission Reveals Secrets of Large Asteroid

NASA's Dawn spacecraft provides the first orbital analysis of the giant asteroid Vesta, yielding new insights into its creation with terrestrial planets and Earth's moon.
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NASA Spacecraft Detects Changes in Martian Sand Dunes

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed that movement in sand dune fields on the Red Planet occurs on a surprisingly large scale, about the same as in dune fields on Earth.
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NASA's Spitzer Sees the Light of Alien 'Super Earth'

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected light emanating from a "super-Earth" planet beyond our solar system for the first time.
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NASA to Hold News Conference on Dawn Mission Results

NASA will host a news conference on Thursday, May 10, at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) to present a new analysis of the giant asteroid Vesta using data from the agency's Dawn spacecraft.
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Paydirt at 8-Year-Old Mars Rover's 'New Landing Site'

A crater NASA's Mars rover Opportunity drove for years to reach is paying off with evidence about wet environments older than any recorded at sites the rover has seen before.
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A NASA Weather 'Eye in the Sky' Marks 10 Years

With 2,378 spectral eyes measuring our atmosphere, NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder might well be called a "monster" of weather and climate research. On May 4, it turns 10.
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Cassini, Saturn Moon Photographer

NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully flies by Saturn's moons Enceladus and Dione.
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Black Hole Caught Red-Handed in a Stellar Homicide

Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close.
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Cassini to Probe Enceladus Gravity, Take Pictures

NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be making a close flyby of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus on May 2.
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100 Days and Counting to NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Landing

At 10:31 p.m. PDT today, April 27, (1:31 p.m. EDT), NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, carrying the one-ton Curiosity rover, will be within 100 days from the Martian surface.
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Cassini Finds Saturn Moon has Planet-Like Qualities

Data from NASA's Cassini mission reveal Saturn's moon Phoebe has more planet-like qualities than previously thought.
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NASA's WISE Catches Aging Star Erupting With Dust

Images from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) reveal an old star in the throes of a fiery outburst, spraying the cosmos with dust.
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NASA Tests GPS Monitoring System for Big U.S. Quakes

A research network of Western U.S. GPS stations will be tested to see if it can quickly pinpoint a strong quake's location/size and aid in disaster response/tsunami warning.
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Dawn Reveals Secrets of Giant Asteroid Vesta

Findings from Dawn reveal new details about the giant asteroid Vesta, including its varied surface composition, sharp temperature changes and clues to its internal structure.
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Cassini Investigates Titan's Chemical Factory

Saturn's moon Titan has a thick, smoggy atmosphere that's one of the most complex chemical environments in the solar system. How long has this "factory" been in business?
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JPL to Host Small Business Science Forum, Supplier Fair

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., through its Business Opportunities Office, will host a supplier fair featuring 20 to 25 local and national high-tech small businesses.
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NASA's Spitzer Finds Galaxy With Split Personality

While some galaxies are rotund and others are slender disks like our spiral Milky Way, new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show that the Sombrero galaxy is both.
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Fireball Over California/Nevada: How Big Was It?

Scientists have a size estimate for an impressive fireball that was witnessed over California's Central Valley Sunday (4/22).
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Cassini Sees Objects Blazing Trails in Saturn Ring

Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have revealed strange half-mile-sized objects punching through parts of Saturn's F ring, leaving glittering trails behind.
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Study Finds Surprising Arctic Methane Emission Source

The Arctic region is home to large reservoirs of the potent greenhouse gas methane. A new study with NASA contributions finds the Arctic Ocean may be an important source.
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Cassini Finds Titan Lake is Like a Namibia Mudflat

Scientists with NASA's Cassini mission find that a lake on Saturn's moon Titan most resembles Etosha Pan in Namibia.
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NASA Image Gallery Highlights Earth's Changing Face

Just in time for Earth Day, NASA's Global Climate Change website unveils a new version of its "State of Flux" image gallery, which highlights how our home planet is changing.
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Dawn Gets Extra Time to Explore Vesta

NASA's Dawn mission has received official confirmation that 40 extra days have been added to its exploration of the giant asteroid Vesta.
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Cassini Successfully Flies over Enceladus

NASA's Cassini spacecraft beams back images of the icy moons Enceladus and Tethys during its course through the Saturn system.
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Breaking the Ice on Icebergs

It's been 100 years since the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank. JPL scientists demystify these frozen mountains of floating ice.
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Cassini to Dip into Enceladus Spray Again

Less than three weeks after its last swoop over the Saturn moon, NASA's Cassini spacecraft returns for an encore.
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Herschel Spots Comet Massacre Around Nearby Star

New data from the Herschel Space Observatory suggest comets are constantly smashing together around the star Fomalhaut.
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NASA's WISE Mission Sees Skies Ablaze With Blazars

Astronomers are hunting a class of supermassive black holes throughout the universe called blazars thanks to data collected by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.
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Live Public Talk: Mars Science Laboratory Landing Site

Join us in person at JPL, or virtually via the Internet, on April 12 for a public talk about Gale Crater, landing site of NASA's next Mars rover.
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NASA to Fly Atomic Clock to Improve Space Navigation

NASA's Deep Space Atomic Clock will improve the way we conduct deep-space navigation by enabling a spacecraft to calculate its own timing and navigation data in real time.
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NASA Views Our Perpetually Moving Ocean

The swirling flows of tens of thousands of ocean currents are captured in a new NASA scientific visualization created with the help of JPL satellite and model data.
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NASA Extends Spitzer, Planck, Kepler Missions

NASA is extending three missions affiliated with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., as a result of the 2012 Senior Review of Astrophysics Missions.
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12-Mile-High Martian Dust Devil Caught In Act

A Martian dust devil roughly 12 miles high (20 kilometers) was captured whirling its way along the Amazonis Planitia region of Northern Mars on March 14.
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Dark Heart of a Cosmic Collision

The cataclysmic history of a giant galaxy is on display in a new image that combines infrared and X-ray observations.
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Cosmic 'Leaf Blower' Robs Galaxy of Star-Making Fuel

Supernova explosions and the jets of a monstrous black hole are scattering a galaxy's star-making gas like a cosmic leaf blower.
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NASA Announces 2012 Carl Sagan Fellows

NASA has announced the 2012 Sagan Exoplanet Fellowships, a program designed to encourage new talent in the area of exoplanet research.
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NASA's SOFIA Captures Image of Dying, Outflowing Star

The last exhalations of a dying star can be seen in a new image from NASA's SOFIA telescope.
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Icy Moons through Cassini's Eyes

NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully flies by Saturnian moons.
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'Mount Sharp' on Mars Links Geology's Past and Future

A stack of geological chapters in the history book of Mars has attracted NASA's big new rover and takes an informal name from a geologist with early Mars missions.
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Flying Formation - Around the Moon at 3,600 MPH

The act of two or more aircraft flying together in a disciplined, synchronized manner is one of the cornerstones of military aviation, as well as just about any organized air show.
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Mars-Bound NASA Craft Adjusts Path, Tests Instruments

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, halfway to Mars, adjusted its flight path today for delivery of the one-ton rover Curiosity to the surface of Mars in August.
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Cassini to Make Closest Pass Yet over Enceladus South Pole

NASA's Cassini spacecraft will fly about 46 miles (74 kilometers) above the surface of the Saturnian moon Enceladus.
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NASA GRACE Data Hit Big Apple on World Water Day

Premiering on New York's Times Square today to mark World Water Day: a new visualization of global groundwater depletion created using data from NASA's GRACE mission.
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Cassini Mission Receives Air and Space Museum Award

The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum has bestowed its highest group honor, the Trophy for Current Achievement, on NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn.
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NASA's 'Eyes on the Earth' Gets Sharper Vision

NASA's Webby Award-winning Global Climate Change website has introduced a new version of its "Eyes on the Earth" interactive virtual reality visualization.
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NASA GRAIL Returns First Student-Selected Moon Images

One of two NASA spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed back the first student-requested pictures of the lunar surface from its onboard camera.
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Dawn Sees New Surface Features on Giant Asteroid

NASA's Dawn spacecraft has revealed unexpected details on the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta.
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Cassini Plasma Spectrometer Resumes Operations

Cassini mission managers have received confirmation that the plasma spectrometer instrument was successfully turned on.
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Students and Robots Take to the Courts in Competition

Student teams from California, Nevada, Brazil and Chile competed in the 21st annual Los Angeles regional FIRST competition this past weekend.
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Cassini Sees Saturn Stressing out Enceladus

Direct observations linking the tidal pull of Saturn to jets on Enceladus are among highlights of NASA's Cassini mission discussed at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.
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NASA's New 'Earth-Now' App: Your World, Unplugged

A free, new iPhone app from NASA literally puts the whole world in the palm of your hands.
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At 10, GRACE Continues Defying, and Defining, Gravity

A decade after launch, NASA's GRACE space twins continue their orbital waltz, producing amazing science.
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Launch of NASA's NuSTAR Mission Postponed

The planned launch of NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission has been postponed after a March 15 launch status meeting.
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Student-designed Robots Take on March Madness

Sixty-six high school teams will take their robots to the courts this weekend to compete in the 21st season of the Los Angeles regional FIRST Robotics Competition.
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Astronomers Find Cosmic Lenses with Feeding Black Holes

Observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal several galaxies containing feeding black holes, called quasars, which are distorting the appearance of galaxies behind them.
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Cassini Garners Top Honor From Air and Space Museum

NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has received the top group honor from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum - the Trophy for Current Achievement. Representatives for Cassini will receive the trophy on March 21 at a black-tie dinner in Washington, D.C.
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NASA Releases New WISE Mission Catalog of Entire Infrared Sky

NASA unveiled a new atlas and catalog of the entire infrared sky today showing more than a half billion stars, galaxies and other objects captured by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission.
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Cassini Spies Wave Rattling Jet Stream on Jupiter

New movies of Jupiter are the first to catch an invisible wave shaking up one of the giant planet's jet streams, an interaction that also takes place in Earth's atmosphere.
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NASA March 13 NuSTAR Media Briefing Postponed

The Tuesday, March 13, media briefing to discuss the upcoming launch of the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has been postponed.
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Cassini Captures New Images of Icy Moon

Saturn's moon Rhea appears in glorious detail in new images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft
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NASA's Kepler Mission Wins Aviation Week Award

NASA's Kepler mission has been named the winner of the 2012 Aviation Week Laureate Award in the Space category.
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NASA to Hold Media Briefing About Upcoming NuSTAR Mission

NASA will hold a media briefing at 9 a.m. PDT (12 p.m. EDT) on Tuesday, March 13, to discuss the upcoming launch of an innovative X-ray telescope called NuSTAR.
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NASA's Twin GRAIL Spacecraft Begin Collecting Lunar Data

NASA's GRAIL twins have begun their science collection phase in lunar orbit.
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JPL Celebrates Women in Space Exploration

In honor of Women's History Month, JPL is hosting an event on March 8 to recognize the success of women in science and engineering.
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Citizen Scientists Reveal a Bubbly Milky Way

Volunteers are helping astronomers find star-blown bubbles throughout our Milky Way galaxy.
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NASA Mars Orbiter Catches Twister in Action

A towering dust devil casts a serpentine shadow over the Martian surface in a new image from the high-resolution camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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Santa Monica High Tops Regional Ocean Sciences Bowl

For the second straight year, Santa Monica High School beat longtime rival Arcadia High School to retain its title of Regional Ocean Sciences Bowl champions.
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Cassini Detects Hint of Fresh Air at Dione

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has "sniffed" molecular oxygen ions around Saturn's icy moon Dione, confirming the presence of a tenuous atmosphere.
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Engineers Tuck NuSTAR in its Nose Cone

NuSTAR is being encapsulated in its rocket nose cone, or fairing, which will protect it during launch, scheduled for no earlier than March 21.
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Community College Scholars Selected to Design Rovers

Community college students team up with NASA for a chance to design robotic rovers through the National Community College Aerospace Scholars program.
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NASA Finds Sea Ice Driving Arctic Air Pollutants

A NASA-led study finds Arctic sea ice loss may be intensifying release of bromine into the atmosphere, depleting ground-level ozone and depositing toxic mercury in the Arctic.
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Young Stars Flicker Amidst Clouds of Gas and Dust

Astronomers have spotted young stars in the Orion nebula changing right before their eyes, thanks to the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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Camera on NASA Mars Odyssey Tops Decade of Discovery

NASA's Mars Odyssey, the longest-working spacecraft ever sent to Mars, has now been sending home images for 10 years.
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Asteroid 2011 AG5 - A Reality Check

Asteroid 2011 AG5 has been receiving a lot of attention lately because of a very unlikely scenario which would place it on an Earth-interception course 28 years from now.
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Proposed Mars Mission Has New Name

Proposed Discovery mission concept by JPL to investigate the formation and evolution of terrestrial planets by studying the deep interior of Mars now has a new name, InSight.
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NASA Pinning Down Where 'Here' is Better Than Ever

NASA is helping lead a global effort to upgrade systems used to determine a terrestrial reference frame for Earth and improve the accuracy of Earth observations from space.
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The Many Moods of Titan

Recent data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show a shifting, Earth-like environment at Saturn's moon Titan.
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NASA's Spitzer Finds Solid Buckyballs in Space

Astronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, discovered buckyballs in a solid form in space.
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NASA Satellite Finds Earth's Clouds are Getting Lower

A new university study using data from NASA's Terra spacecraft finds Earth's clouds got about one percent lower on average during the first decade of the 2000s.
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NuSTAR Mated to its Rocket

Mating of NASA's NuSTAR observatory to its Pegasus rocket is underway.
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NASA Map Sees Earth's Trees in a New Light

A NASA-led science team has created an accurate, high-resolution map of the height of Earth's forests.
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JPL and Caltech CubeSat Proposals Move Forward

NASA selects 33 small satellites - including two from JPL in partnership with Caltech - to fly as auxiliary payloads aboard rockets planned to launch in 2013 and 2014.
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Advanced Communications Testbed for Space Station

An orbiting laboratory will soon provide new and improved ways for future space travelers to communicate.
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Planck All-Sky Images Show Cold Gas and Strange Haze

New images from the Planck mission show previously undiscovered islands of star formation and a mysterious haze of microwave emissions in our Milky Way galaxy.
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Spacecraft Computer Issue Resolved

Engineers have found the root cause of a computer reset that occurred two months ago on NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and have determined how to correct it.
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3-D Map Study Shows Before-After of 2010 Mexico Quake

A new partially NASA-supported study of the April 2010 major quake near the California-Mexico border gives the most comprehensive before-and-after picture yet of a quake zone.
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New Views Show Old NASA Mars Landers

New color images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show the agency's 2008 Phoenix Mars Lander and the lander that carried its rover Spirit to Mars in 2004.
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NASA Mission Takes Stock of Earth's Melting Land Ice

A new comprehensive University of Colorado-led study used gravity data from NASA's Grace mission to calculate how much Earth's melting land ice is adding to global sea level.
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NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer in Standby Mode

NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer was placed in standby mode today as engineers prepare to end mission operations, nearly nine years after the telescope's launch.