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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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  NASA's Van Allen Probes Reveal a New Radiation Belt Around Earth

  February 28, 2013 — NASA's Van Allen Probes mission has discovered a previously unknown third radiation belt around Earth, revealing the existence of unexpected structures and processes within these hazardous regions of ... > full story
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  Antarctic Scientists Discover 18-Kilogram Meteorite

  February 28, 2013 — An international team of scientists have discovered a meteorite with a mass of 18 kilograms embedded in the East Antarctic ice sheet, the largest such meteorite found in the region since ... > full story
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  Lab Instruments Inside Curiosity Eat Mars Rock Powder

  February 25, 2013 — Two compact laboratories inside NASA's Mars rover Curiosity have ingested portions of the first sample of rock powder ever collected from the interior of a rock on Mars. Curiosity science team ... > full story
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  NASA and JPL Contribute to European Jupiter Mission

  February 21, 2013 — NASA has selected key contributions to a 2022 European Space Agency (ESA) mission that will study Jupiter and three of its largest moons in unprecedented detail. The moons are thought to harbor vast ... > full story
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  Mercury May Have Harbored an Ancient Magma Ocean: Massive Lava Flows May Have Given Rise to Two Distinct Rock Types

  February 21, 2013 — By analyzing Mercury's rocky surface, scientists have been able to partially reconstruct the planet's history over billions of ... > full story
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  NASA Rover Confirms First Drilled Mars Rock Sample

  February 20, 2013 — NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images that confirm it has successfully obtained the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another planet. No rover has ever drilled ... > full story
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  NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Tiny Planet System: Smallest Planet Yet Found Around a Star Similar to Our Sun

  February 20, 2013 — NASA's Kepler mission scientists have discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around a star similar to our sun. The planets are located in a system called ... > full story
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  Cassini Sheds Light on Cosmic Particle Accelerators

  February 19, 2013 — During a chance encounter with what appears to be an unusually strong blast of solar wind at Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft detected particles being accelerated to ultra-high energies. This is ... > full story
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  Water on the Moon: It's Been There All Along

  February 18, 2013 — Traces of water have been detected within the crystalline structure of mineral samples from the lunar highland upper crust obtained during the Apollo missions, according to ... > full story

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