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  SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Carrying NASA Cargo Ready for Return to Earth

  March 24, 2013 — More than three weeks after arriving at the International Space Station, the Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft is ready for the trip back to Earth, now scheduled for ... > full story
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  Sun in the Way Will Affect Mars Missions in April

  March 20, 2013 — The positions of the planets next month will mean diminished communications between Earth and NASA's spacecraft at Mars. Mars will be passing almost directly behind the sun, from Earth's perspective. ... > full story
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  Mars Curiosity Rover Exits 'Safe Mode'

  March 20, 2013 — NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has returned to active status and is on track to resume science investigations, following two days in a precautionary standby status, "safe ... > full story
• Cosmic Rays
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  Voyager 1 Has Entered a New Region of Space, Sudden Changes in Cosmic Rays Indicate

  March 20, 2013 — Thirty-five years after its launch, Voyager 1 appears to have travelled beyond the influence of the Sun and exited the heliosphere, according to a new ... > full story
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  NASA's LRO Sees GRAIL's Explosive Farewell

  March 19, 2013 — Many spacecraft just fade away, drifting silently through space after their mission is over, but not GRAIL. NASA's twin GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) spacecraft went out in a blaze ... > full story
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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  Goldstone Radar Snags Images of Asteroid 2013 ET

  March 19, 2013 — A sequence of radar images of asteroid 2013 ET was obtained on March 10, 2013, by NASA scientists using the 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., when the asteroid was ... > full story
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  New Curiosity 'Safe Mode' Status Expected to Be Brief

  March 18, 2013 — NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is expected to resume science investigations in a few days, as engineers quickly diagnosed a software issue that prompted the rover to put itself into a precautionary ... > full story
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  Curiosity Mars Rover Sees Trend in Water Presence

  March 18, 2013 — NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has seen evidence of water-bearing minerals in rocks near where it had already found clay minerals inside a drilled ... > full story
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  Leaping Lunar Dust: Electrically Charged Dust Near Shadowed Craters Can Get Lofted Above Moon's Surface

  March 18, 2013 — Electrically charged lunar dust near shadowed craters can get lofted above the surface and jump over the shadowed region, bouncing back and forth between sunlit areas on opposite sides, according to ... > full story
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  Panorama from NASA Mars Rover Shows Mount Sharp

  March 18, 2013 — Rising above the present location of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, higher than any mountain in the 48 contiguous states of the United States, Mount Sharp is featured in new imagery from the ... > full story

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