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Unique Testbed Soon Will Be in Space

New and improved ways for future space travelers to communicate will be tested on the International Space Station after a launch later this year from Japan. The SCaN Testbed, or Space ...  > full story

Planck All-Sky Images Show Cold Gas and Strange Haze in Milky Way Galaxy

New images from the Planck mission show previously undiscovered islands of star formation and a mysterious haze of microwave emissions ...  > full story

NASA Small Explorer Mission Celebrates 10 Years and 40,000 X-Ray Flares

On February 5, 2002, NASA launched what was then called the High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (HESSI) into orbit. Renamed within ...  > full story

Mars-Bound NASA Rover Carries Coin for Camera Checkup

The camera at the end of the robotic arm on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has its own calibration target, a smartphone-size plaque that looks like an eye chart ...  > full story

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  Mars Science Laboratory Computer Issue Resolved

  February 9, 2012 — Engineers have found the root cause of a computer reset that occurred two months ago on NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and have determined how to correct ... > full story
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  Mobile Launcher Tests Confirm Designs, NASA Analysis Concludes

  February 9, 2012 — The 355-foot-tall mobile launcher, or ML, behaved as expected during its move to Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in November 2011, an analysis of multiple sensors showed. The ... > full story
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  NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer in Standby Mode

  February 9, 2012 — NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer, or Galex, was placed in standby mode Feb. 7, 2012 as engineers prepare to end mission operations, nearly nine years after the telescope's launch. The spacecraft is ... > full story
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  New Views Show Old NASA Mars Landers

  February 9, 2012 — The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recorded a scene on Jan. 29, 2012, that includes the first color image from orbit showing the ... > full story
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  Mars Express Radar Yields Strong Evidence of Ocean That Once Covered Part of Red Planet

  February 7, 2012 — ESA's Mars Express has returned strong evidence for an ocean once covering part of Mars. Using radar, it has detected sediments reminiscent of an ocean floor within the boundaries of previously ... > full story
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  Classic Portrait of a Barred Spiral Galaxy

  February 3, 2012 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1073, which is found in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster). Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is a ... > full story
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  Surface of Mars an Unlikely Place for Life After 600-Million-Year Drought, Say Scientists

  February 3, 2012 — Mars may have been arid for more than 600 million years, making it too hostile for any life to survive on the planet’s surface, according to researchers who have been carrying out the ... > full story
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  Hubble Zooms in on a Magnified Galaxy

  February 2, 2012 — Astronomers aimed Hubble at one of the most striking examples of gravitational lensing, a nearly 90-degree arc of light in the galaxy cluster RCS2 032727-132623. Hubble's view of the distant ... > full story
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  Do Black Holes Help Stars Form?

  February 2, 2012 — The center of just about every galaxy is thought to host a black hole, some with masses of thousands of millions of Suns and consequently strong gravitational pulls that disrupt material around them. ... > full story
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  NASA Mission Returns First Video from Moon's Far Side

  February 1, 2012 — A camera aboard one of NASA's twin Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) lunar spacecraft has returned its first unique view of the far side of the moon. MoonKAM, or Moon Knowledge ... > full story

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