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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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  Astronomers Discover New Exoplanet Similar in Size to Earth; Planet Kepler-21b Found Using Space and Ground-Based Observations

  November 30, 2011 — The NASA Kepler Mission is designed to survey a portion of our region of the Milky Way Galaxy to discover Earth-size planets in or near the "habitable zone," the region in a planetary system where ... > full story
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  Microscopic Worms Could Hold the Key to Living Life on Mars

  November 29, 2011 — The astrophysicist Stephen Hawking believes that if humanity is to survive we will have up sticks and colonize space. But is the human body up to the challenge? Scientists believe that Caenorhabditis ... > full story
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  NASA's Nanosail-D 'Sails' Home -- Mission Complete

  November 29, 2011 — After spending more than 240 days "sailing" around Earth, NASA's NanoSail-D -- a nanosatellite that deployed NASA's first-ever solar sail in low-Earth orbit -- has successfully completed its Earth ... > full story
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  Mars Science Laboratory: NASA Launches Most Capable and Robust Rover to Red Planet

  November 26, 2011 — NASA began a historic voyage to Mars with the Nov. 26 launch of the Mars Science Laboratory, which carries a car-sized rover named Curiosity. Liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard an ... > full story
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  Reliable Nuclear Device to Heat, Power Mars Science Lab

  November 21, 2011 — NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission has the potential to be the most productive Mars surface mission in history. That's due in part to its nuclear heat and power source. The rover Curiosity's ... > full story
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  Cassini Chronicles Life of Saturn's Giant Storm

  November 21, 2011 — New images and animated movies from NASA's Cassini spacecraft chronicle the birth and evolution of the colossal storm that ravaged the northern face of Saturn for nearly a ... > full story
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  NASA Develops New Game-Changing Technology

  November 21, 2011 — Two NASA California centers have been selected to develop new space-aged technologies that could be game-changers in the way we look at planets from above and how we safely transport robots or humans ... > full story
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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
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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

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