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  Pebbly Rocks Testify to Old Streambed on Mars

  May 30, 2013 — Detailed analysis and review have borne out researchers' initial interpretation of pebble-containing slabs that NASA's Mars rover Curiosity investigated last year: They are part of an ancient ... > full story

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  Radiation Measured by NASA's Curiosity on Voyage to Mars Has Implications for Future Human Missions

  May 30, 2013 — Measurements taken by NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission as it delivered the Curiosity rover to Mars in 2012 are providing NASA the information it needs to design systems to protect human ... > full story
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  Asteroid Has Its Own Moon, NASA Radar Reveals

  May 30, 2013 — A sequence of radar images of asteroid 1998 QE2 -- obtained by NASA scientists using the 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif. -- reveals that it is a binary asteroid. ... > full story
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  One of the Moon's Mysteries Solved: Origin of Mascon Basins

  May 30, 2013 — A mystery of the moon that imperiled astronauts and spacecraft on lunar missions has been solved. Large concentrations of mass lurk on the lunar surface that can change the gravity field and either ... > full story
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  Cassini Finds Hints of Activity at Saturn Moon Dione

  May 29, 2013 — From a distance, most of the Saturnian moon Dione resembles a bland cueball. Thanks to close-up images of a 500-mile-long (800-kilometer-long) mountain on the moon from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, ... > full story
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  Forecast for Saturn's Moon Titan: Wild Weather Could Be Ahead

  May 22, 2013 — Saturn's moon Titan might be in for some wild weather as it heads into its spring and summer, if two new models are correct. Scientists think that as the seasons change in Titan's northern ... > full story
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  NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Drills Second Rock Target

  May 20, 2013 — NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has used the drill on its robotic arm to collect a powdered sample from the interior of a rock called "Cumberland." Plans call for delivering portions of the sample in ... > full story
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  Mars Rover Opportunity Examines Clay Clues in Rock

  May 18, 2013 — NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is driving to a new study area after a dramatic finish to 20 months on "Cape York" with examination of a rock intensely altered by ... > full story
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  Nine-Year-Old Mars Rover Passes 40-Year-Old Record

  May 17, 2013 — While Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt visited Earth's moon for three days in December 1972, they drove their mission's Lunar Roving Vehicle 19.3 nautical miles (22.210 statute ... > full story
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  NASA's Asteroid Sample Return Mission Moves Into Development

  May 16, 2013 — NASA's first mission to sample an asteroid is moving ahead into development and testing in preparation for its launch in ... > full story

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