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  Mars Rover Curiosity Uses Arm Camera at Night

  January 24, 2013 — NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has for the first time used the camera on its arm to take photos at night, illuminated by white lights and ultraviolet lights on the ... > full story
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  NASA's Veteran Mars Rover Ready to Start 10th Year

  January 22, 2013 — NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, one of the twin rovers that bounced to airbag-cushioned safe landings on Mars nine years ago this week, is currently examining veined rocks on the rim of an ... > full story
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  NASA to Test Bigelow Expandable Module on Space Station

  January 22, 2013 — NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver announced Jan. 16 a newly planned addition to the International Space Station that will use the orbiting laboratory to test expandable space habitat technology. ... > full story
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  NASA Signs Agreement for a European-Provided Orion Service Module

  January 22, 2013 — NASA signed an agreement in mid-December for the European Space Agency (ESA) to provide a service module for the Orion spacecraft's Exploration Mission-1 in ... > full story
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  Mars May Have Supported Life: Martian Underground Could Contain Clues to Life's Origins

  January 20, 2013 — Minerals found in the subsurface of Mars, a zone of more than three miles below ground, make for the strongest evidence yet that the red planet may have supported life, according to new ... > full story
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  NASA Beams Mona Lisa to Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at the Moon

  January 17, 2013 — As part of the first demonstration of laser communication with a satellite at the moon, scientists with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter beamed an image of the Mona Lisa to the spacecraft from ... > full story
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  ChemCam Follows the 'Yellowknife Road' to Martian Wet Area

  January 16, 2013 — Researchers have tracked a trail of minerals that point to the prior presence of water at the Curiosity rover site on ... > full story
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  NASA Mars Rover Preparing to Drill Into First Martian Rock

  January 16, 2013 — NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is driving toward a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red Planet. If the rock meets rover engineers' approval when Curiosity rolls up ... > full story
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  Asteroid Deflection Mission Seeks Smashing Ideas

  January 15, 2013 — A space rock several hundred metres across is heading towards our planet and the last-ditch attempt to avert a disaster -- an untested mission to deflect it -- fails. This fictional scene of films ... > full story
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  Saline Hiding Places for Bacteria in Río Tinto Could Be Like Those on Mars

  January 11, 2013 — Researchers have identified microorganisms that live inside salt deposits in the acidic and ferrous environment of the Tinto River in Huelva, Spain. The extreme conditions of these microniches appear ... > full story

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