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  Mars Rover Opportunity Passes Half-Way Point to Next Destination

  July 3, 2013 — NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has driven more than half of the distance needed to get from a site where it spent 22 months to its next ... > full story
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  Comet ISON Brings Holiday Fireworks

  July 2, 2013 — Superficially resembling a skyrocket, Comet ISON is hurtling toward the Sun at 48,000 miles per hour. In May 2013, the comet was 403 million miles from Earth, between the orbits of Mars and ... > full story
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  NASA Launches Satellite to Study How Sun's Atmosphere Is Energized

  June 28, 2013 — NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft launched Thursday at 7:27 p.m. PDT (10:27 p.m. EDT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The mission to study the solar atmosphere was ... > full story
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  NASA's Voyager 1 Explores Final Frontier of Our 'Solar Bubble'

  June 27, 2013 — Data from Voyager 1, now more than 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from the sun, suggest the spacecraft is closer to becoming the first human-made object to reach interstellar ... > full story
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  New Flame Trench Will Support New Era at Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39B

  June 27, 2013 — For the first time since NASA's Apollo-era rockets and space shuttles lifted off on missions from Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, one of the launch pads is undergoing extensive ... > full story
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  Sterilizing Mars Spacecraft Is Largely a Waste of Money, Two Experts Argue

  June 27, 2013 — Two university researchers say environmental restrictions have become unnecessarily restrictive and expensive -- on ... > full story
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  Billion-Pixel View of Mars Comes from Curiosity Rover

  June 24, 2013 — A billion-pixel view from the surface of Mars, from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, offers armchair explorers a way to examine one part of the Red Planet in great ... > full story
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  Sun Emits a Solstice CME

  June 22, 2013 — On June 20, 2013, at 11:24 p.m., the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of particles into space that can reach Earth ... > full story
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  Metamorphosis of Moon's Water Ice Explained

  June 19, 2013 — Using data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission, scientists believe they have solved a mystery from one of the solar system's coldest regions -- a permanently shadowed crater on ... > full story
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  Mars Had Oxygen-Rich Atmosphere 4,000 Million Years Ago

  June 19, 2013 — Differences between Martian meteorites and rocks examined by a NASA rover can be explained if Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere 4,000 million years ago -- well before the rise of atmospheric oxygen ... > full story

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