Nasa 2014

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5 Feb 2014 - MAVEN on Track to Carry Out its Science Mission
The MAVEN spacecraft and all of its science instruments have completed their initial checkout, and all of them are working as expected. This means that MAVEN is on track to carry out its full science mission as originally planned.


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6 Feb 2014 - The PI's Perspective: Thanks America, New Horizons Ahead
New Horizons completed a quick, two-week maintenance wakeup on Jan. 17 and is back in hibernation.


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10 Feb 2014 - NASA Mars Orbiters See Clues to Possible Water Flows
NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars have returned clues for understanding seasonal features that are the strongest indication of possible liquid water that may exist today on the Red Planet.


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11 Feb 2014 - NASA Spacecraft Get a 360-Degree View of Saturn's Auroras
NASA's Cassini spacecraft and Hubble Space Telescope get all-around views of the dancing lights at Saturn's poles.


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11 Feb 2014 - NASA Experts Continue to Engage United Nations on NASA's Asteroid Initiative
In June of last year, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden spoke to the United Nations Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) and shared with the international community what NASA is doing to detect and track asteroids.


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11 Feb 2014 - NASA's Curiosity Drives On After Crossing Martian Dune
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is continuing its traverse toward enticing science destinations after climbing over a dune spanning a gap in a ridge.


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12 Feb 2014 - NASA Moves Longest-Serving Mars Spacecraft for New Observations
NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has tweaked its orbit to help scientists make the first systematic observations of how morning fogs, clouds and surface frost develop in different seasons on the Red Planet.


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13 Feb 2014 - NASA to Host Deep Space Network Social Media Event
NASA will host a two-day NASA Social for 50 of its social media followers on April 1 and 2, 2014, at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and the Deep Space Network complex in Goldstone, Calif.


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18 Feb 2014 - NASA Mars Orbiter Views Opportunity Rover on Ridge
A new image from a telescopic camera orbiting Mars shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity at work on "Murray Ridge," without any new impact craters nearby.


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19 Feb 2014 - Curiosity Adds Reverse Driving for Wheel Protection
Terrain that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is now crossing is as smooth as team members had anticipated based on earlier images from orbit.


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27 Feb 2014 - NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Views Striated Ground
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has reached an area where orbital images had piqued researchers' interest in patches of ground with striations all oriented in a similar direction.


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27 Feb 2014 - New Horizons Reaches the Final 4 (AU)
New Horizons sailed past another milepost today when the NASA spacecraft moved to within four astronomical units (AU) of Pluto.


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27 Feb 2014 - NASA Scientists Find Evidence of Water in Meteorite
Scientists have found evidence of past water movement throughout a Martian meteorite.


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28 Feb 2014 - Relay Radio on Mars-Bound NASA Craft Passes Checkout
The team operating NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission successfully completed, on Feb. 19, 2014, the initial post-launch power-on and checkout of the spacecraft's Electra Ultra High Frequency Transceiver.


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5 Mar 2014 - Cassini Nears 100th Titan Flyby with a Look Back
On the eve of NASA Cassini's 100th flyby of Titan, scientists are reminded how Earth-like this Saturn moon really is.


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6 Mar 2014 - Small Asteroid Will Pass Earth Safely on Thursday
An asteroid about 25 feet (8 meters) across will safely pass Earth at about 1:21 p.m. PST (4:21 p.m. EST) today.


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6 Mar 2014 - NASA's Hubble Telescope Witnesses Asteroid's Mysterious Disintegration
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has recorded the never-before-seen break-up of an asteroid into as many as 10 smaller pieces.


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10 Mar 2014 - Be an Asteroid Hunter in NASA's First Asteroid Grand Challenge Contest Series
NASA's Asteroid Data Hunter contest series will offer $35,000 in awards over the next six months to citizen scientists who develop improved algorithms that can be used to identify asteroids.


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11 Mar 2014 - NASA Orbiter Safe After Unplanned Computer Swap
NASA's long-lived Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter put itself into a precautionary safe standby mode March 9 after an unscheduled swap from one main computer to another. The mission's ground team has begun restoring the spacecraft to full operations.


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14 Mar 2014 - Your 15 Minutes of 'Frame' - from NASA's Cassini
Members of the public are encouraged to transform Cassini spacecraft images of the Saturn system and share the results on JPL's Cassini Amateur Image page.


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