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  Saturn's Giant Moon: How Long Has Titan's Chemical Factory Been in Business?

  April 25, 2012 — Saturn's giant moon Titan hides within a thick, smoggy atmosphere that's well-known to scientists as one of the most complex chemical environments in the solar system. It's a productive "factory" ... > full story
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  NASA's Webb Telescope Flight Backplane Section Completed

  April 24, 2012 — The center section of the backplane structure that will fly on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been completed, marking an important milestone in the telescope's hardware development. The ... > full story
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  Extreme Gardening on Mars? European Research Project Focuses on Development of Life Support Units

  April 24, 2012 — A new project is being conducted by European researchers to plant the seeds for possible gardening on Mars on day. The plan for the future will be to grow first vegetables on Earth in a closed ... > full story
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  Cassini Finds Titan Lake Is Like a Namibia Mudflat

  April 20, 2012 — A new study analyzing data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggests that the lake, known as Ontario Lacus, behaves most similarly to what we call a salt pan on ... > full story
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  Cassini Successfully Flies Over Enceladus

  April 16, 2012 — New raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's moons Enceladus and Tethys were taken on April 14, 2012, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Cassini flew by Enceladus at an altitude of about 46 miles (74 ... > full story
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  Panoramic View of a Turbulent Star-Making Region

  April 17, 2012 — Several million stars are vying for attention in a new image of a raucous stellar breeding ground in 30 Doradus, located in the heart of the Tarantula ... > full story
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  Designing the Interplanetary Web

  April 13, 2012 — Reliable Internet access on the Moon, near Mars or for astronauts on a space station? How about controlling a planetary rover from a spacecraft in deep space? These are just some of the pioneering ... > full story
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  First-Ever Model Simulation of the Structuring of the Observable Universe

  April 12, 2012 — Astronomers have performed the first-ever computer model simulation of the structuring of the entire observable universe, from the Big Bang to the present day. The simulation has made it possible to ... > full story
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  NASA Extends Spitzer, Planck, Kepler Missions

  April 5, 2012 — NASA is extending three missions affiliated with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. -- Kepler, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the U.S. portion of the European Space Agency's Planck ... > full story
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  Icy Moons Through Cassini's Eyes

  March 28, 2012 — New raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's moons Enceladus, Janus and Dione were taken on March 27 and 28, 2012, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Cassini passed Enceladus first on March 27, coming within ... > full story

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