Nasa 2014

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23 Jul 2014 - NEOWISE Spots a Comet That Looked Like an Asteroid
Comet C/2013 UQ4 (Catalina) was originally thought to be an asteroid, but observations by NASA's NEOWISE spacecraft indicate that it's a comet.


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23 Jul 2014 - NASA Seeks Proposals for Commercial Mars Data Relay Satellites
NASA has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to investigate the possibility of using commercial Mars-orbiting satellites to provide telecommunications capabilities for future robotic missions to the Red Planet.


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23 Jul 2014 - NASA Voyager Statement About Solar Wind Models
NASA's Voyager Project Scientist Ed Stone responds to an alternate model for the interaction between the heliosphere and the interstellar medium.


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24 Jul 2014 - Surface Impressions of Rosetta's Comet
Images of Rosetta's target comet resolve structures as small as 330 feet (100 meters) across.


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24 Jul 2014 - NASA's Mars Spacecraft Maneuvers to Prepare for Close Comet Flyby
NASA is taking steps to protect its Mars orbiters, while preserving opportunities to gather valuable scientific data, as Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring heads toward a close flyby of Mars on Oct. 19.


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30 Jul 2014 - NASA to Announce Mars 2020 Rover Instruments
NASA will announce on Thursday, July 31, the instruments that will be carried aboard the agency's Mars 2020 mission, a roving laboratory based on the highly successful Curiosity rover.


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31 Jul 2014 - Mars 2020 Rover's PIXL to Focus X-Rays on Tiny Targets
An X-ray instrument for NASA's next Mars rover combines a sharpshooting spectrometer and a camera, to identify and map chemical elements in targets at microscopic scale.


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31 Jul 2014 - SHERLOC to Micro-Map Mars Minerals and Carbon Rings
One of the seven instruments chosen for the payload of NASA's next Mars rover would detect key minerals and carbon chemicals and show where they are, at microscopic scale.


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31 Jul 2014 - NASA Announces Mars 2020 Rover Payload to Explore the Red Planet as Never Before
The next rover NASA will send to Mars in 2020 will carry seven carefully-selected instruments to conduct unprecedented science and exploration technology investigations on the Red Planet.


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31 Jul 2014 - Rosetta's Comet: Imaging the Coma
A distinct coma surrounds Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as seen from Rosetta.


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1 Aug 2014 - NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Nears Mountain-Base Outcrop
As it approaches the second anniversary of its landing on Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover is also approaching its first close look at bedrock that is part of Mount Sharp, the layered mountain in the middle of Mars' Gale Crater.


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5 Aug 2014 - NASA Holds Briefing on Early Test Results for New Planetary Landing Technology
Media are invited to the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, at 9 a.m. PDT (noon EDT) Friday, August 8, to see new video from this test and hear about early results from the mission.


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5 Aug 2014 - Two Years and Counting on Red Planet
NASA's most advanced roving laboratory on Mars celebrates its second anniversary since landing inside the Red Planet's Gale Crater on Aug. 5, 2012, PDT (Aug. 6, 2012, EDT).


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5 Aug 2014 - NASA Upgrades Its 3-D Spacecraft App
A new-and-improved version of NASA's Spacecraft 3D app for mobile devices is launching to coincide with the second anniversary of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover's landing on Mars.


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6 Aug 2014 - Orbiter Completes Maneuver to Prepare for Comet Flyby
Mars Odyssey successfully adjusted the timing of its orbit around Mars as a defensive precaution for a comet's close flyby of Mars on Oct. 19, 2014.


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6 Aug 2014 - Rosetta Arrives at Target Comet
After a decade-long journey chasing its target, the European Space Agency's Rosetta, carrying three NASA instruments, became the first spacecraft to rendezvous with a comet. The last of a series of 10 rendezvous maneuvers that began in May ...


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7 Aug 2014 - Cassini Prepares For Its Biggest Remaining Burn
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will execute the largest planned maneuver of the spacecraft's remaining mission on Aug. 9.


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8 Aug 2014 - Ride Shotgun With NASA Saucer As It Flies to Near Space
NASA's LDSD project successfully flew a rocket-powered, saucer-shaped test vehicle


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12 Aug 2014 - Cassini Tracks Clouds Developing Over a Titan Sea
NASA's Cassini spacecraft recently captured images of clouds moving across the northern hydrocarbon seas of Saturn's moon Titan. This renewed weather activity, considered overdue by researchers, could finally signal the onset of summer storms.


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14 Aug 2014 - Stardust Team Reports Discovery of First Potential Interstellar Space Particles
Seven rare, microscopic interstellar dust particles that date to the beginnings of the solar system are among the samples collected by scientists who have been studying the payload from NASA's Stardust spacecraft since its return to Earth in 2006.


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