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  NASA's Wind Mission Encounters 'SLAMS' Waves

  April 16, 2013 — To tease out what happens at that boundary of the magnetosphere and to better understand how radiation and energy from the sun can cross it and move closer to Earth, NASA launches spacecraft into ... > full story
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  Strange New Bursts of Gamma Rays Point to a New Way to Destroy a Star

  April 16, 2013 — Scientists have pinpointed a new type of exceptionally powerful and long-lived cosmic explosion, prompting a theory that they arise in the violent death throes of a supergiant ... > full story

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  For the Very First Time, Two Spacecraft Will Fly in Formation With Millimeter Precision

  April 16, 2013 — A new project aims to demonstrate that two satellites can move as one single object with sub-millimeter precision. This configuration will enable the creation of enormous space telescopes with the ... > full story
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  Titan's Methane: Going, Going, Soon to Be Gone?

  April 15, 2013 — By tracking a part of the surface of Saturn's moon Titan over several years, NASA's Cassini mission has found a remarkable longevity to the hydrocarbon lakes on the moon's ... > full story
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  NASA-Funded Asteroid Tracking Sensor Passes Key Test

  April 15, 2013 — An infrared sensor that could improve NASA's future detecting and tracking of asteroids and comets has passed a critical design ... > full story
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  Where Are the Best Windows Into Europa's Interior?

  April 15, 2013 — The surface of Jupiter's moon Europa exposes material churned up from inside the moon and also material resulting from matter and energy coming from above. If you want to learn about the deep ... > full story
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  Update: Comet to Make Close Flyby of Red Planet in October 2014

  April 15, 2013 — New observations of comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) have allowed NASA's Near-Earth Object Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. to further refine the comet's ... > full story
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  Ice Cloud Heralds Fall at Titan's South Pole

  April 11, 2013 — An ice cloud taking shape over Titan's south pole is the latest sign that the change of seasons is setting off a cascade of radical changes in the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon. Made from an ... > full story
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  NASA Mars Orbiter Images May Show 1971 Soviet Lander

  April 11, 2013 — Hardware from a spacecraft that the Soviet Union landed on Mars in 1971 might appear in images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. While following news about Mars and NASA's Curiosity rover, ... > full story
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  NASA's Asteroid Initiative: Robotically Capture Small Near-Earth Asteroid and Explore It

  April 11, 2013 — NASA's FY2014 budget proposal includes a plan to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid and redirect it safely to a stable orbit in the Earth-moon system where astronauts can visit and ... > full story

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