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  Giant Planet Ejected from the Solar System?

  November 10, 2011 — Just as an expert chess player sacrifices a piece to protect the queen, the solar system may have given up a giant planet and spared the Earth, according to a new ... > full story
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  Ancient Lunar Dynamo May Explain Magnetized Moon Rocks

  November 9, 2011 — The presence of magnetized rocks on the surface of the moon, which has no global magnetic field, has been a mystery since the days of the Apollo program. Now a team of scientists has proposed a novel ... > full story
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  NASA's Spitzer Detects Comet Storm in Nearby Solar System

  October 19, 2011 — NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected signs of icy bodies raining down in an alien solar system. The downpour resembles our own solar system several billion years ago during a period known as ... > full story
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  NASA's Moon Twins Going Their Own Way

  October 7, 2011 — NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)-B spacecraft successfully executed its first flight path correction maneuver Wednesday, Oct. 5. The rocket burn helped refine the spacecraft's ... > full story
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  Subtly Shaded Map of Moon Reveals Titanium Treasure Troves

  October 7, 2011 — A map of the Moon combining observations in visible and ultraviolet wavelengths shows a treasure trove of areas rich in Titanium ores. Not only is titanium a valuable element, it is key to helping ... > full story
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  NASA to Demonstrate Communications Via Laser Beam

  September 23, 2011 — It currently takes 90 minutes to transmit high-resolution images from Mars, but NASA would like to dramatically reduce that time to just minutes. A new optical communications system that NASA plans ... > full story
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  NASA Launches Mission to Study Moon From Crust to Core

  September 10, 2011 — NASA's twin lunar Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 9:08 a.m. EDT (6:08 a.m. PDT) Saturday, Sept. 10, to study ... > full story
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  Sharper Views of Apollo 12, 14, 17 Sites in New Images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

  September 6, 2011 — Researchers overseeing the imaging system on board NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have released the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 sites, more clearly showing ... > full story
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  Cassini Closes in on Saturn's Tumbling Moon Hyperion

  August 27, 2011 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured new views of Saturn's oddly shaped moon Hyperion during its encounter with a cratered body on Aug. 25. Raw images were acquired as the spacecraft flew past the moon ... > full story
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  NASA Moon Mission in Final Preparations for September Launch

  August 27, 2011 — NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission to study the moon is in final launch preparations for a scheduled Sept. 8 launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. ... > full story

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