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  Cassini Sees Saturn's Moon Titan Cooking Up Smog

  February 4, 2013 — Newly published research using data from NASA's Cassini mission describes in more detail than ever before how aerosols in the highest part of the atmosphere are kick-started at Saturn's moon Titan. ... > full story
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  Seeing the Aurora in a New Light: Sounding Rocket to Help Scientists Study Northern Lights

  February 1, 2013 — Armed with a series of instruments, the VISIONS rocket will soar high through the arctic sky to study the auroral wind, which is a strong but intermittent stream of oxygen atoms from Earth's ... > full story
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  NASA's Cassini Watches Saturn Storm Choke on Its Own Tail

  January 31, 2013 — Call it a Saturnian version of the Ouroboros, the mythical serpent that bites its own tail. In a new paper that provides the most detail yet about the life and death of a monstrous ... > full story
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  NASA Launches Next-Generation Communications Satellite

  January 30, 2013 — The first of NASA's three next-generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS), known as TDRS-K, launched at 8:48 p.m. EST Wednesday (Jan. 30) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. ... > full story
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  NASA to Launch Ocean Wind Monitor to Space Station

  January 29, 2013 — In a clever reuse of hardware originally built to test parts of NASA's QuikScat satellite, the agency will launch the ISS-RapidScat instrument to the International Space Station in 2014 to measure ... > full story
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  NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System Offers Upgrade to Vital Communications Net

  January 27, 2013 — NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System, also known as the Space Network, will get an upgrade this month when the agency launches the first of a new generation of communications satellites to ... > full story
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  World's Most Powerful Engine Blazes Path for Space Launch System Advanced Propulsion

  January 26, 2013 — To help develop the nation's future heavy lift rocket, NASA resurrected the world's most powerful rocket engine ever flown -- the mighty F-1 that powered the Saturn V rocket-- and test fired its gas ... > full story
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  Thawing 'Dry Ice' Drives Groovy Action on Mars

  January 25, 2013 — Researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter see seasonal changes on far-northern Martian sand dunes caused by warming of a winter blanket of frozen carbon ... > full story
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  NASA Officially Joins ESA's 'Dark Universe' Mission

  January 24, 2013 — NASA has joined the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Euclid mission, a space telescope designed to investigate the cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark ... > full story
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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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