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  New Tool for Touring Mars Using Detailed Images

  December 7, 2011 — An improved tool debuts Dec. 7 for viewing channels, dunes, boulders and other features revealed in the huge image files from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's ... > full story
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  NASA Mars Rover Finds Mineral Vein Deposited by Water

  December 7, 2011 — NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found bright veins of a mineral, apparently gypsum, deposited by water. Analysis of the vein will help improve understanding of the history of wet ... > full story
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  Solar Storms Could Sandblast the Moon

  December 7, 2011 — Solar storms and associated Coronal Mass Ejections can significantly erode the lunar surface according to a new set of computer simulations by NASA scientists. In addition to removing a surprisingly ... > full story
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  New NASA Dawn Visuals Show Vesta's 'Color Palette'

  December 6, 2011 — Vesta appears in a splendid rainbow-colored palette in new images obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft. The colors, assigned by scientists to show different rock or mineral types, reveal Vesta to be a ... > full story
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  NASA's Voyager Hits New Region at Solar System Edge

  December 5, 2011 — NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region between our solar system and interstellar space. Data obtained from Voyager over the last year reveal this new region to be a kind of cosmic ... > full story
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  NASA's Kepler Confirms Its First Planet in Habitable Zone Outside Our Solar System

  December 5, 2011 — NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the "habitable zone," the region around a star where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. Kepler also has discovered more than 1,000 ... > full story

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  • First Habitable-Zone Super-Earth Discovered in Orbit Around a Sun-Like Star
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  Astronomers Find 18 New Planets: Discovery Is the Largest Collection of Confirmed Planets Around Stars More Massive Than the Sun

  December 2, 2011 — Discoveries of new planets just keep coming and coming. A team of astronomers has found 18 Jupiter-like planets in orbit around massive stars. The discoveries further constrain theories of planet ... > full story
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  Dawn Soars Over Asteroid Vesta in 3-D

  December 1, 2011 — Glide over the giant asteroid Vesta with NASA's Dawn spacecraft in a new 3-D video. Dawn has been orbiting Vesta since July 15, obtaining high-resolution images of its bumpy, cratered surface and ... > full story
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  What's That Sparkle in Cassini's Eye?

  December 1, 2011 — The moon Enceladus, one of the jewels of the Saturn system, sparkles peculiarly bright in new images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The images of the moon, the first ever taken of Enceladus ... > full story
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  Course Excellent, Adjustment Postponed: Mars Science Laboratory Mission Status Report

  December 1, 2011 — Excellent launch precision for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission has forestalled the need for an early trajectory correction maneuver, now not required for a month or ... > full story

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