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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 ...  > 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

Surface of Mars an Unlikely Place for Life After 600-Million-Year Drought, Say Scientists

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, ...  > full story

NASA Mission Returns First Video from Moon's Far Side

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 ...  > 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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  Astronomers Solve Mystery of Vanishing Electrons in Earth's Outer Radiation Belt

  January 29, 2012 — Researchers have explained the puzzling disappearing act of energetic electrons in Earth's outer radiation belt using data collected from a fleet of orbiting ... > full story

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  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
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  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
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  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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  Giant Asteroid Vesta Likely Cold and Dark Enough for Ice

  January 25, 2012 — Though generally thought to be quite dry, roughly half of the giant asteroid Vesta is expected to be so cold and to receive so little sunlight that water ice could have survived there for billions of ... > full story

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