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  NASA and JPL Contribute to European Jupiter Mission

  February 21, 2013 — NASA has selected key contributions to a 2022 European Space Agency (ESA) mission that will study Jupiter and three of its largest moons in unprecedented detail. The moons are thought to harbor vast ... > full story
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  Sun's Next-Door Twin: Cool Layer in the Atmosphere of Alpha Centauri A

  February 20, 2013 — The European Space Agency's Herschel space observatory has detected a cool layer in the atmosphere of Alpha Centauri A, the first time this has been seen in a star beyond our own Sun. The finding is ... > full story
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  Sweeping Dust from a Cosmic Lobster

  February 20, 2013 — Located around 8000 light-years away in the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion), NGC 6357 -- sometimes nicknamed the Lobster Nebula due to its appearance in visible-light images -- is a region ... > full story
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  Cassini Sheds Light on Cosmic Particle Accelerators

  February 19, 2013 — During a chance encounter with what appears to be an unusually strong blast of solar wind at Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft detected particles being accelerated to ultra-high energies. This is ... > full story
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  Russian Asteroid Strike: Numerous Injuries, Significant Damage

  February 15, 2013 — A space rock a few metres across exploded in Earth's atmosphere above the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia today (Feb. 15, 2013) at about 03:15 GMT. The numerous injuries and significant damage remind us ... > full story
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  NASA Set for New Round of J-2X Testing at Stennis Space Center

  February 12, 2013 — NASA's progress toward a return to deep space missions continues with a new round of upcoming tests on the next-generation J-2X rocket engine, which will help power the agency's Space Launch System ... > full story
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  NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to Lead U.S. Science Team for Dark Energy Mission

  February 12, 2013 — The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected three NASA-nominated science teams to participate in their planned Euclid mission, including one team led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, ... > full story
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  Cassini Sees Saturn's Moon Titan Cooking Up Smog

  February 4, 2013 — Newly published research using data from NASA's Cassini mission describes in more detail than ever before how aerosols in the highest part of the atmosphere are kick-started at Saturn's moon Titan. ... > full story
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  New Video Brings Webb Telescope's Third Mirror to Light

  February 1, 2013 — There are four types of mirrors that will fly on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. They're called the "primary, secondary, tertiary" and fine steering mirrors. Although the 18 primary mirror ... > full story
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  NASA Launches Next-Generation Communications Satellite

  January 30, 2013 — The first of NASA's three next-generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS), known as TDRS-K, launched at 8:48 p.m. EST Wednesday (Jan. 30) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. ... > full story

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