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  Cassini Makes Last Close Flyby of Saturnian Moon Rhea

  March 8, 2013 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be swooping close to Saturn's moon Rhea on Saturday, March 9, the last close flyby of Rhea in Cassini's mission. The primary purpose will be to probe the internal ... > full story
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  New 3-D Reconstructions Show Buried Flood Channels on Mars

  March 7, 2013 — New maps of the subsurface of Mars show for the first time buried channels below the surface of the red planet. Understanding the source and scale of the young channels present in Elysium Planitia -- ... > full story
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  Comet to Make Close Flyby of Red Planet in October 2014

  March 6, 2013 — Comet 2013 A1 (Siding Spring) will make a very close approach to Mars in October ... > full story
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  Modeling Jupiter and Saturn's Possible Origins

  March 5, 2013 — New theoretical modeling provides clues to how the gas giant planets in our solar system -- Jupiter and Saturn -- might have formed and ... > full story
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  Jupiter's Icy Moon: Window Into Europa's Ocean Lies Right at the Surface

  March 5, 2013 — If you could lick the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa, you would actually be sampling a bit of the ocean beneath, according to astronomers. Astronomers have found the strongest evidence yet that ... > full story
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  Mars Rover Curiosity's Recovery on Track

  March 5, 2013 — NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has transitioned from precautionary "safe mode" to active status on the path of recovery from a memory glitch last week. Resumption of full operations is anticipated by ... > full story
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  Working at the Extreme Edge of Cosmic Ice

  March 4, 2013 — Behind locked doors, in a lab built like a bomb shelter, Perry Gerakines makes something ordinary yet truly alien: ice. This isn't the ice of snowflakes or ice cubes. No, this ice needs such intense ... > full story
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  Cassini Spies Bright Venus from Saturn Orbit

  March 4, 2013 — A distant world gleaming in sunlight, Earth's twin planet, Venus, shines like a bright beacon in images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in orbit around ... > full story
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  NASA on Course to Launch Orion Flight Test

  March 1, 2013 — The first spacecraft NASA has designed to fly astronauts beyond Earth orbit since the Apollo era is well on its way to making a flight test next year, agency officials said Wednesday. The mission is ... > full story
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  Computer Swap on NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity

  February 28, 2013 — The ground team for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has switched the rover to a redundant onboard computer in response to a memory issue on the computer that had been ... > full story

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