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  IBEX Spacecraft Images the Heliotail, Revealing an Unexpected Structure

  July 10, 2013 — NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer spacecraft recently provided the first complete pictures of the solar system's downwind region, revealing a unique and unexpected ... > full story
• Mars
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  Science Team Outlines Goals for NASA's 2020 Mars Rover

  July 10, 2013 — The rover NASA will send to Mars in 2020 should look for signs of past life, collect samples for possible future return to Earth, and demonstrate technology for future human exploration of the Red ... > full story
• Mercury
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  New Insights Into the Early Bombardment History on Mercury

  July 5, 2013 — Astronomers have studied the surface of Mercury to better understand if the plains were formed by volcanic flows or composed of material ejected from the planet's giant impact ... > full story
• Oceanography
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  Long-Running Jason-1 Ocean Satellite Takes Final Bow

  July 3, 2013 — The curtain has come down on a superstar of the satellite oceanography world that played the "Great Blue Way" of the world's ocean for 11-1/2 years. The successful joint NASA and Centre National ... > full story
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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  Comet ISON Brings Holiday Fireworks

  July 2, 2013 — Superficially resembling a skyrocket, Comet ISON is hurtling toward the Sun at 48,000 miles per hour. In May 2013, the comet was 403 million miles from Earth, between the orbits of Mars and ... > full story
• Geomagnetic Storms
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  Cluster Spacecraft Detects Elusive Space Wind

  July 2, 2013 — A new study provides the first conclusive proof of the existence of a space wind first proposed theoretically over 20 years ago. By analysing data from the European Space Agency’s Cluster ... > full story
• Astronomy
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  NASA Decommissions Its Galaxy Hunter Spacecraft

  July 1, 2013 — NASA has turned off its Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) after a decade of operations in which the venerable space telescope used its ultraviolet vision to study hundreds of millions of galaxies ... > full story
• Sun
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  Rocket-Launched Camera Reveals Highways and Sparkles in the Solar Atmosphere

  June 30, 2013 — Using an innovative new camera on board a sounding rocket, an international team of scientists have captured the sharpest images yet of the Sun’s outer atmosphere. The team discovered ... > full story
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  NASA Launches Satellite to Study How Sun's Atmosphere Is Energized

  June 28, 2013 — NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft launched Thursday at 7:27 p.m. PDT (10:27 p.m. EDT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The mission to study the solar atmosphere was ... > full story
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  NASA's Voyager 1 Explores Final Frontier of Our 'Solar Bubble'

  June 27, 2013 — Data from Voyager 1, now more than 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from the sun, suggest the spacecraft is closer to becoming the first human-made object to reach interstellar ... > full story

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