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  Star Explosion Leaves Behind a Rose

  December 12, 2011 — About 3,700 years ago, people on Earth would have seen a brand-new bright star in the sky. It slowly dimmed out of sight and was eventually forgotten, until modern astronomers later found its ... > full story
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  Cassini to Make a Double Play

  December 12, 2011 — In an action-packed day and a half, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be making its closest swoop over the surface of Saturn's moon Dione and scrutinizing the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest ... > full story
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  New Tool for Touring Mars Using Detailed Images

  December 7, 2011 — An improved tool debuts Dec. 7 for viewing channels, dunes, boulders and other features revealed in the huge image files from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's ... > full story
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  New NASA Dawn Visuals Show Vesta's 'Color Palette'

  December 6, 2011 — Vesta appears in a splendid rainbow-colored palette in new images obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft. The colors, assigned by scientists to show different rock or mineral types, reveal Vesta to be a ... > full story
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  Homegrown Designs Sprout for NASA's Commercial Crew Program

  December 5, 2011 — The expression goes, "Necessity is the mother of invention." And right now there is a need for NASA and the United States to have reliable access to low Earth orbit from homegrown sources. So, NASA's ... > full story
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  Orion Continues to Make a Splash

  December 5, 2011 — Testing continues at NASA Langley Research Center as the 18,000-pound (8,164.6 kg) Orion test article took its seventh splash into the Hydro Impact Basin Dec. 1. Orion, NASA's next deep space ... > full story
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  NASA Quiet Sonic Boom Research Effort Ends With a Whisper

  December 1, 2011 — NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center recently completed NASA's latest quiet sonic boom research study at Edwards Air Force Base. The Waveforms and Sonic boom Perception and Response, or WSPR, project ... > full story
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  Dawn Soars Over Asteroid Vesta in 3-D

  December 1, 2011 — Glide over the giant asteroid Vesta with NASA's Dawn spacecraft in a new 3-D video. Dawn has been orbiting Vesta since July 15, obtaining high-resolution images of its bumpy, cratered surface and ... > full story
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  NASA's Deep Impact Spacecraft Eyes the Future

  December 1, 2011 — NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft completed a 140-second firing of its onboard rocket motors on Thursday, Nov. 24. The rocket burn was performed to keep the venerable comet hunter's options open for yet ... > full story
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  Course Excellent, Adjustment Postponed: Mars Science Laboratory Mission Status Report

  December 1, 2011 — Excellent launch precision for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission has forestalled the need for an early trajectory correction maneuver, now not required for a month or ... > full story

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