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Unique Testbed Soon Will Be in Space
New and improved ways for
future space travelers to
communicate will be tested
on the International Space
Station after a launch later
this year from Japan. The
SCaN Testbed, or Space
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Mars-Bound NASA Rover Carries Coin for Camera Checkup
The camera at the end of the
robotic arm on NASA's Mars
rover Curiosity has its own
calibration target, a
smartphone-size plaque that
looks like an eye chart
... > full story
New Views Show Old NASA Mars Landers
The High Resolution Imaging
Science Experiment (HiRISE)
camera on NASA's Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter
recorded a scene on Jan. 29,
2012, that includes the
first color image from orbit
... > full story
Mars Express Radar Yields Strong Evidence of Ocean That Once Covered Part of Red Planet
ESA's Mars Express has
returned strong evidence for
an ocean once covering part
of Mars. Using radar, it has
detected sediments
... > full story
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Teachers Fly Experiments on NASA Reduced Gravity Flights
February 15, 2012 — More than 70 teachers had an opportunity to experience what it feels like to float in space as they participated in the Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program at NASA's Johnson Space Center in ... > full story -
Mars Science Laboratory Computer Issue Resolved
February 9, 2012 — Engineers have found the root cause of a computer reset that occurred two months ago on NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and have determined how to correct ... > full story -
Mobile Launcher Tests Confirm Designs, NASA Analysis Concludes
February 9, 2012 — The 355-foot-tall mobile launcher, or ML, behaved as expected during its move to Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in November 2011, an analysis of multiple sensors showed. The ... > full story -
NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer in Standby Mode
February 9, 2012 — NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer, or Galex, was placed in standby mode Feb. 7, 2012 as engineers prepare to end mission operations, nearly nine years after the telescope's launch. The spacecraft is ... > full story -
Surface of Mars an Unlikely Place for Life After 600-Million-Year Drought, Say Scientists
February 3, 2012 — Mars may have been arid for more than 600 million years, making it too hostile for any life to survive on the planet’s surface, according to researchers who have been carrying out the ... > full story -
NASA Mission Returns First Video from Moon's Far Side
February 1, 2012 — A camera aboard one of NASA's twin Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) lunar spacecraft has returned its first unique view of the far side of the moon. MoonKAM, or Moon Knowledge ... > full story -
Sun Delivered Curveball of Powerful Radiation at Earth
February 1, 2012 — A potent follow-up solar flare, which occurred Jan. 17, 2012, just days after the Sun launched the biggest coronal mass ejection seen in nearly a decade, delivered a powerful radiation punch to ... > full story -
Mars-Bound Instrument Detects Solar Burst's Effects: RAD Measures Radiation from Solar Storm
January 27, 2012 — The largest solar particle event since 2005 hit Earth, Mars and the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft traveling in-between, allowing the onboard Radiation Assessment Detector to measure the ... > full story -
NuSTAR Spacecraft Arrives in California
January 27, 2012 — NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, mission arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California Jan. 27 after a cross-country trip by truck from the Orbital Sciences Corporation's ... > full story -
Photo from NASA Mars Orbiter Shows Wind's Handiwork
January 25, 2012 — Some images of stark Martian landscapes provide visual appeal beyond their science value, including a recent scene of wind-sculpted features from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment ... > full story
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