12 Jan 2012 - Solar System Exploration @ 50
To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the first successful planetary mission, NASA seeks papers for a conference relating to the history of planetary exploration.
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12 Jan 2012 - Solar System Exploration @ 50
To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the first successful planetary mission, NASA seeks papers for a conference relating to the history of planetary exploration.
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7 Feb 2012 - A Vision of Discovery! Understanding NASA Images through Art
Participants will get the latest updates on these exciting missions from dynamic scientists, then learn how to use art to engage students in the appreciation and interpretation of NASA imagery.
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28 Feb 2012 - Proposed Mars Mission Has New Name
A proposed Discovery mission concept led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., to investigate the formation and evolution of terrestrial planets by studying the deep interior of Mars now has a new name, InSight.
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7 Mar 2012 - NASA's Twin GRAIL Spacecraft Begin Collecting Lunar Science Data
The twin GRAIL spacecraft orbiting the moon officially have begun their science collection phase.
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14 Mar 2012 - Cassini Spies Wave Rattling Jet Stream on Jupiter
New movies of Jupiter are the first to catch an invisible wave shaking up one of the giant planet's jet streams, an interaction that also takes place in Earth's atmosphere and influences the weather.
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21 Mar 2012 - Dawn Sees New Surface Features on Giant Asteroid
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has revealed unexpected details on the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta.
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11 Apr 2012 - Herschel Spots Comet Massacre Around Nearby Star
ESA's Herschel Space Observatory has studied the dusty belt around the nearby star Fomalhaut. The dust appears to be coming from collisions that destroy up to thousands of icy comets every day.
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One day in the fall of 2011, Neil Sheeley, a solar scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., did what he always does Ð look through the daily images of the sun from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).
But on this day he saw something he'd never noticed before: a pattern of cells with bright centers and dark boundaries occurring in the sun's atmosphere, the corona. These cells looked somewhat like a cell pattern that occurs on the sun's surface -- similar to the bubbles that rise to the top of boiling water -- but it was a surprise to find this pattern higher up in the corona, which is normally dominated by bright loops and dark coronal holes.
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18 Apr 2012 - Dawn Gets Extra Time to Explore Vesta
NASA's Dawn mission has received official confirmation that 40 extra days have been added to its exploration of the giant asteroid Vesta, the second most massive object in the main asteroid belt.
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18 Apr 2012 - Dark Impact Melt Sheet
Today's feature LRO image explores the southern rim of an unnamed crater.
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23 Apr 2012 - Flying Formation - Around the Moon at 3,600 MPH
The act of two or more aircraft flying together in a disciplined, synchronized manner is one of the cornerstones of military aviation. What if you could take the level of precision of these great aviators to, say, the Moon?
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25 Apr 2012 - Dawn Reveals Secrets of Giant Asteroid Vesta
Findings from NASA's Dawn spacecraft reveal new details about the giant asteroid Vesta, including its varied surface composition, sharp temperature changes and clues to its internal structure.
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26 Apr 2012 - Cassini Finds Saturn Moon has Planet-Like Qualities
Data from NASA's Cassini mission reveal Saturn's moon Phoebe has more planet-like qualities than previously thought.
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27 Apr 2012 - 100 Days and Counting to NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Landing
At 10:31 p.m. PDT today, April 27, (1:31 p.m. EDT), NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, carrying the one-ton Curiosity rover, will be within 100 days from its appointment with the Martian surface.
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3 May 2012 - Perigee "Super Moon" on May 5-6, 2012
This May's full Moon is a "super Moon," as much as 14% bigger and 30% brighter than other full Moons of 2012.
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10 May 2012 - NASA's Juno Spacecraft Images Big Dipper
Juno viewed the Big Dipper on its way to Jupiter.
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28 May 2012 - The 2012 Transit of Venus
On June 5th, 2012, Venus will pass across the face of the sun, producing a silhouette that no one alive today will likely see again.
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29 May 2012 - Partial Eclipse of the Strawberry Moon
On Monday, June 4th, the Moon will pass through the shadow of Earth, producing a partial lunar eclipse visible across the Pacific from China to the United States.
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29 May 2012 - NASA Offers Guidelines to Protect Historic Sites on the Moon
The Google Lunar X Prize is recognizing guidelines established by NASA to protect lunar historic sites and preserve ongoing and future science on the moon.
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29 May 2012 - Asteroid 2012 KT42 Buzzes Earth
Newly-discovered asteroid 2012 KT42 is flying past Earth today (May 29th) only ~14,000 km above the planet's surface. This means 2012 KT42 will actually fly inside the Clark Belt of geosynchronous satellites.
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