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  NASA Orbiter Catches Mars Sand Dunes in Motion

  November 21, 2011 — Images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show sand dunes and ripples moving across the surface of Mars at dozens of locations and shifting up to several yards. These observations reveal the ... > full story
• Space Probes
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  Lightning Sprites Are out-of-This-World: 'Sprites' Predicted in Atmospheres of Jupiter, Saturn and Venus

  November 21, 2011 — Lightning storms on planets like Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars may also produce "sprites," bursts of electric energy. Scientists have re-created the atmospheres of these planets to produce artificial ... > full story
• Mercury
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  NASA Extends MESSENGER Mission Orbiting Mercury

  November 16, 2011 — NASA has announced that it will extend the MESSENGER mission for an additional year of orbital operations at Mercury beyond the planned end of the primary mission on March 17, 2012. The MESSENGER ... > full story
• Geomagnetic Storms
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  2012: Killer Solar Flares Are a Physical Impossibility, Experts Say

  November 11, 2011 — Given a legitimate need to protect Earth from the most intense forms of space weather – great bursts of electromagnetic energy and particles that can sometimes stream from the sun – some ... > full story
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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  Lutetia: A Rare Survivor from the Birth of Earth

  November 11, 2011 — New observations indicate that the asteroid Lutetia is a leftover fragment of the same original material that formed the Earth, Venus and Mercury. Astronomers found that the properties of the ... > full story
• Solar System
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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
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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  NASA Releases Radar Movie of Asteroid 2005 YU55

  November 9, 2011 — Scientists working with the 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have generated a short movie clip of asteroid 2005 YU55. The images were generated from data ... > full story
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  NASA Proposes Orion Spacecraft Test Flight In 2014; Agency Moves to Implement Deep Space Exploration Plan

  November 8, 2011 — NASA plans to add an unmanned flight test of the Orion spacecraft in early 2014 to its contract with Lockheed Martin Space Systems for the multi-purpose crew vehicle's design, development, test and ... > full story
• Mars
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  Battered Tharsis Tholus Volcano on Mars

  November 8, 2011 — The latest image released from Mars Express reveals a large extinct volcano that has been battered and deformed over the eons. By Earthly standards, Tharsis Tholus is a giant, towering 8 kilometers ... > full story
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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  NASA Captures New Images of Large Asteroid Passing Earth

  November 8, 2011 — NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif. has captured new radar images of Asteroid 2005 YU55 passing close to Earth. The asteroid safely will safely fly past our planet slightly closer ... > full story

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