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  Curiosity Mars Rover Gleams in View from Orbiter

  July 24, 2013 — An image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter released today shows NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and the wheel tracks from its landing site to the "Glenelg" area where the rover worked for the first ... > full story
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  Boeing Unveils CST-100 Mock-Up, Astronauts Climb Aboard

  July 24, 2013 — Two NASA astronauts conducted flight suit evaluations inside a fully outfitted test version of The Boeing Company's CST-100 spacecraft July 22, the first time the world got a glimpse of the crew ... > full story
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  NASA's Spitzer Observes Gas Emission from Comet ISON

  July 23, 2013 — Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have observed what most likely are strong carbon dioxide emissions from Comet ISON ahead of its anticipated pass through the inner solar system later ... > full story
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  NASA Releases Images of Earth by Two Interplanetary Spacecraft

  July 22, 2013 — Color and black-and-white images of Earth taken by two NASA interplanetary spacecraft on July 19 show our planet and its moon as bright beacons from millions of miles away in space. NASA's Cassini ... > full story
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  MAVEN Spectrometer Opens Window to Red Planet’s Past

  July 18, 2013 — When NASA's MAVEN mission begins its journey to the Red Planet later this year, it will be equipped with a special instrument to take the planet back in ... > full story
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  NASA Interplanetary Probes to Take Pictures of Earth

  July 18, 2013 — Two NASA spacecraft, one studying the Saturn system, the other observing Mercury, are maneuvering into place to take pictures of Earth on July 19 and ... > full story
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  Overhead View of Mars Rover 10 Years After Launch

  July 17, 2013 — An image from Mars orbit taken 10 years after the launch of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the long-lived rover on its trek to a new destination on ... > full story
• Solar System
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  Hubble Finds New Neptune Moon: Smallest Known Moon in the Neptunian System

  July 15, 2013 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a new moon orbiting the distant blue-green planet Neptune, the 14th known to be circling the giant ... > full story
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  NASA's OPALS to Beam Data from Space Via Laser

  July 11, 2013 — NASA will use the International Space Station to test a new communications technology that could dramatically improve spacecraft communications, enhance commercial missions and strengthen ... > full story
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  Solar Tsunami Used to Measure Sun's Magnetic Field

  July 11, 2013 — A solar tsunami observed by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and the Japanese Hinode spacecraft has been used to provide the first accurate estimates of the Sun's magnetic ... > full story

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