26 Jun 2014 - NASA's Curiosity Rover Team Today Features Women
Today (Thursday) is Women's Curiosity Day for the diverse team running NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, with female engineers and scientists doing most of mission's 90-plus roles.
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26 Jun 2014 - NASA's Curiosity Rover Team Today Features Women
Today (Thursday) is Women's Curiosity Day for the diverse team running NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, with female engineers and scientists doing most of mission's 90-plus roles.
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Surrounding the sun is a vast atmosphere of solar particles, through which magnetic fields swarm, solar flares erupt, and gigantic columns of material rise, fall and jostle each other around. Now, using observations from NASA's STEREO, scientists have found that this atmosphere, called the corona, is even larger than previously thought.
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Time and again, the sun hurls energetic charged particles into space in violent eruptions. At the same time, a continuous stream of particles, the solar wind, escapes from its surface. Numerous space probes in the EarthÕs vicinity monitor how this matter propagates through space. However, until STEREO this information never showed the whole picture.
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27 Jun 2014 - NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator to Lift Off June 28
A balloon carrying a test vehicle for NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) is scheduled to lift off tomorrow.
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27 Jun 2014 - NASA Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator Set to Lift Off
Mission managers are proceeding with preparations for a launch attempt tomorrow morning.
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28 Jun 2014 - NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator Lifts Off
Get the latest information on Saturday's test.
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30 Jun 2014 - Cassini Names Final Mission Phase Its 'Grand Finale'
With input from more than 2,000 members of the public, team members on NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn have chosen a name for the final phase of the mission: the Cassini Grand Finale.
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30 Jun 2014 - Rosetta's Comet Target 'Releases' Plentiful Water
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is releasing the Earthly equivalent of two glasses of water into space every second.
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1 Jul 2014 - Hubble to Proceed with Full Search for New Horizons Targets
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has been given the go-ahead to conduct an intensive search for a suitable outer solar system object that the New Horizons (NH) spacecraft could visit after the probe streaks though the Pluto system in July 2015.
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2 Jul 2014 - Ocean on Saturn Moon Could be as Salty as the Dead Sea
Scientists analyzing data from NASA's Cassini mission have firm evidence the ocean inside Saturn's largest moon, Titan, might be as salty as Earth's Dead Sea.
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Since February 2011, the two spacecraft of NASA's STEREO mission have been providing scientists with unprecedented views of the far side of the sun. Placed in orbits that allow their perspective to change over the eight years since their launch in 2006, the satellites are about to enter a new phase of their journey: a time when the bright light and heat of the sun will stand in the way of sending data back to Earth.
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Understanding the sun from afar isn't easy. How do you figure out what powers solar flares - the intense bursts of radiation coming from the release of magnetic energy associated with sunspots Ð when you must rely on observing only the light and particles that make their way to near-Earth's orbit?
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15 Jul 2014 - New Horizons Only One Year from Pluto
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is only a year away from Pluto. Researchers are buzzing with anticipation as NASA prepares to encounter a new world for the first time in decades.
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15 Jul 2014 - Looking Back at the Jupiter Crash 20 Years Later
Twenty years ago, space assets from NASA/JPL watched as the fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 made their historic plunge into the atmosphere of Jupiter.
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15 Jul 2014 - NASA Honors First Moon Landing, Looks Ahead to Mars
NASA marks the 45th anniversary of the first moon landing this month while it takes the steps needed for America's next giant leap to send astronauts to Mars.
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15 Jul 2014 - NASA Seeks Proposals for Europa Mission Science Instruments
NASA has issued an Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for proposals about science instruments that could be carried aboard a future mission to Jupiter's moon Europa.
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16 Jul 2014 - NASA Rover's Images Show Laser Flash on Martian Rock
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has caught the first images of sparks on a Martian rock that result from the rover's laser instrument examining the rock.
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17 Jul 2014 - Lunar Pits Could Shelter Astronauts, Reveal Details of How 'Man in the Moon' Formed
While the moon's surface is battered by millions of craters, it also has over 200 holes - steep-walled pits that in some cases might lead to caves that future astronauts could explore and use for shelter, according to new observations.
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17 Jul 2014 - Voyager Project Scientist Ed Stone Honored
Ed Stone, project scientist of NASA's Voyager mission since 1972, and former director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, was honored with a lifetime achievement award on Wednesday from the American Astronautical Society.
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17 Jul 2014 - Rosetta Spacecraft Approaching Twofold Comet
New images obtained by OSIRIS, the onboard scientific imaging system, confirm the body's peculiar shape hinted at in earlier pictures. Comet 67P is obviously different from other comets visited so far.
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