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  Mars Rover Curiosity Explores 'Yellowknife Bay'

  January 5, 2013 — After imaging during the holidays, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity resumed driving Jan. 3 and pulled within arm's reach of a sinuous rock feature called "Snake River." Snake River is a thin curving line ... > full story
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  First Meteorite Linked to Martian Crust

  January 3, 2013 — After extensive analyses, researchers have identified a new class of Martian meteorite that likely originated from Mars's crust. It is also the only meteoritic sample dated to 2.1 billion years ago, ... > full story
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  Carbon in Vesta's Craters: Asteroid Impacts May Have Transferred Carbonaceous Material to Protoplanet and Inner Solar System

  January 3, 2013 — The protoplanet Vesta has been witness to an eventful past: images taken by the framing camera onboard NASA's space probe Dawn show two enormous craters in the southern hemisphere. The images were ... > full story
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  Space Travel May Be Harmful to the Brain, Study Suggests; Prolonged Cosmic Radiation Exposure Could Hasten Alzheimer's

  December 31, 2012 — As if space travel was not already filled with enough dangers, a new study shows that cosmic radiation -- which would bombard astronauts on deep space missions to places like Mars -- could accelerate ... > full story
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  Saturn Mission: Cassini Instrument Learns New Tricks

  December 20, 2012 — For seven years, a mini-fridge-sized instrument aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft reliably investigated weather patterns swirling around Saturn; the hydrocarbon composition of the surface of Saturn's ... > full story
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  Clays on Mars: More Plentiful Than Expected

  December 20, 2012 — A new study indicates that clay minerals, rocks that usually form when water is present for long periods of time, cover a larger portion of Mars than previously ... > full story
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  Meteorite Triggered Scientific 'Gold Rush'

  December 20, 2012 — A meteorite that exploded as a fireball over California's Sierra foothills this past spring was among the fastest, rarest meteorites known to have hit the Earth, and it traveled a highly eccentric ... > full story

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  Mars Curiosity Rover Explores 'Yellowknife Bay'

  December 19, 2012 — The NASA Mars rover Curiosity this week is driving within a shallow depression called "Yellowknife Bay," providing information to help researchers choose a rock to ... > full story
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  From Cassini for the Holidays: Backlit View of Saturn and Its Rings

  December 18, 2012 — Just in time for the holidays, NASA's Cassini spacecraft, in orbit around Saturn for more than eight years now, has delivered another glorious, backlit view of the planet Saturn and its ... > full story
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  NASA's GRAIL Lunar Impact Site Named for Astronaut Sally Ride

  December 17, 2012 — NASA has named the site where twin agency spacecraft impacted the moon Monday in honor of the late astronaut Sally K. Ride, who was America's first woman in space and a member of the probes' mission ... > full story

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