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NASA Technologist Makes Traveling to Hard-to-Reach Destinations Easier
Traveling to remote
locations sometimes involves
navigating through
stop-and-go traffic,
traversing long stretches of
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New Explorer Mission Chooses the 'Just-Right' Orbit
Principal investigator
George Ricker likes to call
it the "Goldilocks orbit" --
it's not too close to Earth
and her Moon, and it's not
too far. In fact, it's just
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NASA's Cassini Sees Forces Controlling Enceladus Jets
The intensity of the jets of
water ice and organic
particles that shoot out
from Saturn's moon Enceladus
depends on the moon's
proximity to the ringed
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Saturn's Mimas and Pandora: Two Moons Passing in the Night
The Saturn moons Mimas and
Pandora remind us of how
different they are when they
appear together, as in this
image taken by NASA's
Cassini spacecraft.
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Station Astronauts Remotely Control Planetary Rover from Space
July 30, 2013 — On June 17 and July 26, NASA tested the Surface Telerobotics exploration concept, in which an astronaut in an orbiting spacecraft remotely operates a robot on a planetary ... > full story -
'International Beam Team' Solves Martian Meteorite-Age Puzzle
July 24, 2013 — By directing energy beams at tiny crystals found in a Martian meteorite, geologists have proven that the most common group of meteorites from Mars is almost four billion years younger than many ... > full story -
Curiosity Mars Rover Gleams in View from Orbiter
July 24, 2013 — An image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter released today shows NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and the wheel tracks from its landing site to the "Glenelg" area where the rover worked for the first ... > full story -
Boeing Unveils CST-100 Mock-Up, Astronauts Climb Aboard
July 24, 2013 — Two NASA astronauts conducted flight suit evaluations inside a fully outfitted test version of The Boeing Company's CST-100 spacecraft July 22, the first time the world got a glimpse of the crew ... > full story -
Curiosity Makes Its Longest One-Day Drive on Mars
July 24, 2013 — NASA's Mars rover Curiosity drove twice as far on July 21 as on any other day of the mission so far: 109.7 yards (100.3 meters). The length of the drive took advantage of starting the 340th Martian ... > full story -
NASA's Spitzer Observes Gas Emission from Comet ISON
July 23, 2013 — Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have observed what most likely are strong carbon dioxide emissions from Comet ISON ahead of its anticipated pass through the inner solar system later ... > full story -
NASA Releases Images of Earth by Two Interplanetary Spacecraft
July 22, 2013 — Color and black-and-white images of Earth taken by two NASA interplanetary spacecraft on July 19 show our planet and its moon as bright beacons from millions of miles away in space. NASA's Cassini ... > full story -
How Mars' Atmosphere Got So Thin: Reports Detail Curiosity Clues to Atmosphere's Past
July 18, 2013 — A pair of new papers report measurements of the Martian atmosphere's composition by NASA's Curiosity rover, providing evidence about loss of much of Mars' original ... > full story -
MAVEN Spectrometer Opens Window to Red Planet’s Past
July 18, 2013 — When NASA's MAVEN mission begins its journey to the Red Planet later this year, it will be equipped with a special instrument to take the planet back in ... > full story -
NASA Interplanetary Probes to Take Pictures of Earth
July 18, 2013 — Two NASA spacecraft, one studying the Saturn system, the other observing Mercury, are maneuvering into place to take pictures of Earth on July 19 and ... > full story
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