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Mars Rover Opportunity Examines Clay Clues in Rock
NASA's senior Mars rover,
Opportunity, is driving to a
new study area after a
dramatic finish to 20 months
on "Cape York" with
examination of a rock
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Nine-Year-Old Mars Rover Passes 40-Year-Old Record
While Apollo 17 astronauts
Eugene Cernan and Harrison
Schmitt visited Earth's moon
for three days in December
1972, they drove their
mission's Lunar Roving
... > full story
NASA's Asteroid Sample Return Mission Moves Into Development
NASA's first mission to
sample an asteroid is moving
ahead into development and
testing in preparation for
its launch in 2016. ... > full story
Weather on the Outer Planets Only Goes So Deep
What is the long-range
weather forecast for the
giant planets Uranus and
Neptune? These planets are
home to extreme winds
blowing at speeds of over
... > full story
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Asteroid 1998 QE2 to Sail Past Earth Is Nine Times Larger Than Cruise Ship
May 16, 2013 — On May 31, 2013, asteroid 1998 QE2 will sail serenely past Earth, getting no closer than about 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon. ... > full story -
New Craters Abound: Mars Camera Reveals Hundreds of Impacts Each Year
May 15, 2013 — Taking before and after pictures of the Martian terrain, researchers have identified nearly 250 fresh impact craters on the Red Planet. The results provide scientists with a better yardstick to ... > full story -
Scientists Shape First Global Topographic Map of Saturn's Moon Titan
May 15, 2013 — Scientists have created the first global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan, giving researchers a valuable tool for learning more about one of the most Earthlike and interesting worlds in the ... > full story -
Entrepreneur Giving Space Shuttle Truss New Uses
May 14, 2013 — A truss design devised to help workers process space shuttles continues to find new uses as a space shuttle engineer-turned-entrepreneur adapts it to everything from a solar-powered electric ... > full story -
NASA Curiosity Rover Team Selects Second Drilling Target on NASA
May 10, 2013 — The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has selected a second target rock for drilling and sampling. The rover will set course to the drilling location in coming ... > full story -
Moon and Earth Have Common Water Source
May 9, 2013 — New research finds that water inside the moon's mantle comes from the same source as water on Earth. The Moon is thought to have formed after a giant impact to a still-forming Earth 4.5 million years ... > full storyMore: -
NASA's Spitzer Puts Planets in a Petri Dish
May 6, 2013 — Our galaxy is teeming with a wild variety of planets. In addition to our solar system's eight near-and-dear planets, there are more than 800 so-called exoplanets known to circle stars beyond our sun. ... > full story -
Telling Time on Saturn: Undergraduate Student Shows How Planet's Magnetosphere Changes With the Seasons
May 3, 2013 — An undergraduate student has discovered that a process occurring in Saturn's magnetosphere is linked to the planet's seasons and changes with them, a finding that helps clarify the length of a Saturn ... > full story -
Studying Meteorites May Reveal Mars' Secrets of Life
May 1, 2013 — In an effort to determine if conditions were ever right on Mars to sustain life, a team of scientists has examined a meteorite that formed on the Red Planet more than a billion years ... > full story -
Saturn's Youthful Appearance Explained
April 30, 2013 — As planets age they become darker and cooler. Saturn, however, is much brighter than expected for a planet of its age -- a question that has puzzled scientists since the late 1960s. New research has ... > full story
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