14 Aug 2012 - Dawn Engineers Assess Reaction Wheel
Engineers working on NASA's Dawn spacecraft are assessing the status of a reaction wheel after onboard software powered it off on Aug. 8.
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14 Aug 2012 - Dawn Engineers Assess Reaction Wheel
Engineers working on NASA's Dawn spacecraft are assessing the status of a reaction wheel after onboard software powered it off on Aug. 8.
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On July 23, 2012, a massive cloud of solar material erupted off the sun's right side, zooming out into space, passing one of NASA's STEREO spacecraft along the way. Using the STEREO data, scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. clocked this giant cloud, known as a coronal mass ejection, or CME, as traveling between 1,800 and 2,200 miles per second as it left the sun.
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16 Aug 2012 - NASA To Host Curiosity Rover Teleconference Aug. 17
NASA will host a media teleconference at 10:30 a.m. PDT (1:30 p.m. EDT), Friday, Aug. 17, to provide a status update on the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater.
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17 Aug 2012 - NASA Curiosity Team Pinpoints Site For First Drive
The scientists and engineers of NASA's Curiosity rover mission have selected the first driving destination for their one-ton, six-wheeled mobile Mars laboratory. The target area, named Glenelg, is a natural intersection of three kinds of terrain.
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20 Aug 2012 - Mars Science Laboratory Mission Status Report: Curiosity Stretches its Arm
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity flexed its robotic arm today for the first time since before launch in November 2011.
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21 Aug 2012 - NASA's Curiosity Studies Mars Surroundings, Nears Drive
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has been investigating the Martian weather around it and the soil beneath it, as its controllers prepare for the car-size vehicle's first drive on Mars.
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21 Aug 2012 - First Words of Safe Landing on Mars -- Tango Delta Nominal
The entry, descent and landing of NASA's new Mars rover was full of unknowns -- including when was the right time to declare Curiosity safe and sound on the surface.
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21 Aug 2012 - NASA To Hold Televised Curiosity Rover Media Briefing Aug. 22
NASA will hold a televised news conference at 11:30 a.m. PDT (2:30 p.m. EDT) on Wednesday, Aug. 22, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., to update media on the progress of its Curiosity rover mission on Mars.
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24 Aug 2012 - NASA'S 2013 Lunabotics Competition Open For Registration
NASA is accepting applications from teams of U.S. and international undergraduate and graduate students for the fourth annual Lunabotics Mining Competition. The event will be held at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida May 20-24, 2013.
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27 Aug 2012 - First Recorded Voice from Mars
Charles Bolden made a statement that was returned to Earth via the Curiosity rover.
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29 Aug 2012 - NASA Curiosity Rover Begins Eastbound Trek on Martian Surface
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has set off from its landing vicinity on a trek to a science destination about a quarter mile (400 meters) away, where it may begin using its drill.
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29 Aug 2012 - Rover Leaves Tracks in Morse Code
Curiosity is leaving a special pattern in the Martian soil. The pattern is Morse code for JPL, the abbreviation for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., where the rover was designed and built, and the mission is managed.
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30 Aug 2012 - NASA's Dawn Prepares for Trek Toward Dwarf Planet
NASA's Dawn spacecraft started its two-and-a-half-year journey to the dwarf planet Ceres.
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4 Sep 2012 - NASA Announces Asteroid Naming Contest for Students
Students worldwide have an opportunity to name an asteroid from which an upcoming NASA mission will return the first samples to Earth.
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5 Sep 2012 - Cheers, Voyager: 35 Years of Exploration
Thirty-five years ago today, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft launched on its mission of exploration.
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4 Sep 2012 - NASA Dawn Mission to Host 'Hasta La Vesta' Google+ Hangout
Join NASA's Dawn mission at noon on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012 for a Google+ Hangout featuring mission team members and fans as the spacecraft says hasta la vista to its host, asteroid Vesta, and sets its sights on the dwarf planet Ceres.
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6 Sep 2012 - NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Begins Arm-Work Phase
Curiosity extended its robotic arm Wednesday in the first of six to 10 consecutive days of planned activities to test the 7-foot (2.1-meter) arm and the tools it manipulates.
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11 Sep 2012 - MESSENGER Data from Second Full Mercury Solar Day in Orbit Released by Planetary Data System
Late last week, the Planetary Data System (PDS) released data collected during MESSENGER's seventh through twelfth month in orbit around Mercury.
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11 Sep 2012 - NASA Orbiter Observations Point To 'Dry Ice' Snowfall On Mars
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter data have given scientists the clearest evidence yet of carbon-dioxide snowfalls on Mars.
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11 Sep 2012 - Vesta in Dawn's Rear View Mirror
NASA's Dawn mission is releasing two parting views of the giant asteroid Vesta.
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