Nasa 2014

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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-dawn-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46011)31 Dec 2013 - Dawn Journal
Now more than halfway through its journey from protoplanet Vesta to dwarf planet Ceres, Dawn is continuing to use its advanced ion propulsion system to reshape its orbit around the sun.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/asteroid20140102-673_0_160X120.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46012)2 Jan 2014 - First 2014 Asteroid Discovered
A small asteroid, the first of 2014, may have disintegrated in Earth's atmosphere early Wednesday morning off the coast of West Africa according to observations from the Catalina Sky Survey.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/horizontal crop of pia17752_160X120.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46031)3 Jan 2014 - Decade-Old Rover Adventure Continues on Mars and Earth
Landings of NASA Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity 10 years ago inspired some students to pursue careers that put them on the team still operating one of those long-lived rovers.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-marsscilab-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46051)9 Jan 2014 - Mars Orbiter Images Rover and Tracks in Gale Crater
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and its recent tracks from driving in Gale Crater appear in an image taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Dec. 11, 2013.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-lro-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46071)9 Jan 2014 - Internet Radio Provides Musical Space-Weather Reports from NASA's LRO Mission
The latest tool for checking space weather is an internet radio station fed by data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-osiris-rex-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46091)15 Jan 2014 - NASA Invites Public to Send Names on an Asteroid Mission and Beyond
NASA is inviting people around the world to submit their names to be etched on a microchip aboard a spacecraft headed to the asteroid Bennu in 2016.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-mer_a-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46111)16 Jan 2014 - Free Mars Exploration Rover 10-Year Anniversary Event Tonight
The public is invited to share, either in person or online, in a 10-year anniversary event for the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER), Spirit and Opportunity, tonight at 7 p.m. PST (10 p.m. EST).


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/images/default-mars.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46171)21 Jan 2014 - NASA Receives Mars 2020 Rover Instrument Proposals for Evaluation
NASA has received 58 proposals for science and exploration technology instruments to fly aboard the agency's next Mars rover in 2020.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-mer_a-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46172)21 Jan 2014 - NASA Hosts News Conference About 10 Years of Roving on Mars
NASA's Opportunity rover was built for a three-month mission on Mars, but continues to return valuable scientific data 10 years later.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-rosetta-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46213)23 Jan 2014 - NASA, ESA Discuss Rosetta Comet Mission in Media Teleconference
NASA will host a media teleconference at noon EST Friday, Jan. 24, to discuss the road ahead for the three U.S. science instruments, as well as other NASA support, that are part of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta mission.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/images/default-asteroids.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46215)23 Jan 2014 - NEOWISE Celebrates First Month of Operations After Reactivation
In its first 25 days of operations, the newly reactivated NEOWISE mission has detected 857 minor bodies in our solar system, including 22 near-Earth objects (NEOs) and four comets.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/pia17759_JC2_160X1203.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46214)23 Jan 2014 - NASA's Opportunity at 10: New Findings from Old Rover
A decade into a mission planned for only three months, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity keeps yielding new findings and surprises about how Mars has changed.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/Alexander-1PIA17666_160X1201.png (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46231)24 Jan 2014 - NASA Instruments on European Comet Spacecraft Begin Activation Countdown
Three NASA science instruments are being prepared for check-out operations aboard the Rosetta spacecraft, which is set to become the first to orbit a comet and land a probe on its nucleus in November.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-marsscilab-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46271)29 Jan 2014 - Curiosity Mars Rover Checking Possible Smoother Route
The team operating NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is considering a path across a small sand dune to reach a favorable route to science destinations.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-ladee-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46291)29 Jan 2014 - NASA's LRO Snaps a Picture of NASA's LADEE Spacecraft
With precise timing, the camera aboard LRO was able to take a picture of LADEE as it orbited our nearest celestial neighbor.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-marsscilab-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46311)31 Jan 2014 - NASA Mars Rover's View of Possible Westward Route
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover reached the edge of a dune on Jan. 30 and photographed the valley on the other side, to aid assessment of whether to cross the dune.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/reportcover_160X120.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46331)30 Jan 2014 - NASA Posts Final Asteroid Workshop Report
NASA posted the final report summarizing the asteroids workshop discussion and recommendations.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-ladee-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46351)31 Jan 2014 - NASA Extends Moon Exploring Satellite Mission
NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, or LADEE, observatory has been approved for a 28-day mission extension. The spacecraft is now expected to impact the lunar surface on or around April 21, 2014, depending on the final trajectory.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/PIA17931-MAIN_M34-sol528-wb_160X120.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46371)3 Feb 2014 - NASA Mars Rover's Color View of Likely Route West
The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover will likely drive the rover westward over a dune and across a valley with fewer sharp rock hazards than alternative routes.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-mro.gif (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46391)5 Feb 2014 - NASA Mars Orbiter Examines Dramatic New Crater
Space rocks hitting Mars excavate fresh craters at a pace of more than 200 per year, but few new Mars scars pack as much visual punch as one seen in a NASA image released today.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-maven-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46392)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-pkb-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46431)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-mro.gif (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46451)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/PIA17668unannotated160X1201.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46452)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-arm-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46473)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/PIA17939_sol539-ncam_160X120.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46471)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/PIA17940-MAIN_ Viking_160X1201.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46491)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-dsn.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46511)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-mer_a-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46551)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/PIA17944_Mcam-SOL538-WB_160X120.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46571)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/pia17947_160X120.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46611)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-pkb-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46613)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/images/default-mars.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46612)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-maven-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46631)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-cassini-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46671)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/images/default-asteroids.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46691)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/14-060-asteroid-disintegration_1_160X120.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46692)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/images/default-asteroids.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46712)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-mro.gif (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46732)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/cassini20140314-full_2_160X120.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46772)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/PRMESSENGERByrneContractionImageWebLink3-10-14_160X120.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46792)16 Mar 2014 - Mercury's Contraction Much Greater Than Thought
New global imaging and topographic data from MESSENGER show that the innermost planet has contracted far more than previous estimates.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-lro-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46812)18 Mar 2014 - NASA Releases First Interactive Mosaic of Lunar North Pole
Scientists, using cameras aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), have created the largest high resolution mosaic of our moon's north polar region.


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On July 22, 2012, a massive cloud of solar material erupted off the sun's right side, zooming out into space and passing one of NASA's two Solar Terrestrial Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft along the way. Scientists clocked this giant cloud, known as a coronal mass ejection, or CME, as traveling over 3000 kilometers per second as it left the Sun.





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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/pia17959_2_160X120.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46833)24 Mar 2014 - NASA Mars Rover's Next Stop Has Sandstone Variations
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is approaching a waypoint where sandstone layers exhibit textures that may tell of ancient environmental changes.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/14-090-hubble-comet_0_160X120.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46872)27 Mar 2014 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Spots Mars-Bound Comet Sprout Multiple Jets
NASA released Thursday an image of a comet that, on Oct. 19, will pass within 84,000 miles of Mars -- less than half the distance between Earth and our moon.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/pia17956_Sol3609-rhaz_160X120.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46874)27 Mar 2014 - Cleaner NASA Rover Sees Its Shadow in Martian Spring
NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has captured a shadow selfie on a slope it is exploring with an increasing power supply, as winds remove some dust and spring days grow longer.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-rosetta-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46873)27 Mar 2014 - Rosetta Sets Sights on Destination Comet
The Rosetta spacecraft has caught a first glimpse of its destination comet since waking up from deep-space hibernation on Jan. 20.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/2007vk184a_160X120.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46914)2 Apr 2014 - Asteroid 2007 VK184 Eliminated as Impact Risk to Earth
Recent observations have removed from NASA's asteroid impact hazard list the near-Earth object (NEO) known to pose the most significant risk of Earth impact over the next 100 years.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/selfie20140402-full_160X120.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46913)2 Apr 2014 - NASA Celebrates Earth Day with 'Global Selfie' Event
NASA is inviting people all around the world to step outside on Earth Day, April 22, take a "selfie," and share it with the world on social media.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-marsscilab-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46934)3 Apr 2014 - NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Scoping Out Next Study Area
On Wednesday, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover drove the last 98 feet feet (30 meters) needed to arrive at a site planned since early 2013 as a destination for studying rock clues about ancient environments that may have been favorable for life.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-ladee-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46933)3 Apr 2014 - Take the Plunge: LADEE Impact Challenge
NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft is gradually lowering its orbital altitude over the moon. LADEE will continue to make important science observations before its planned impact into the lunar surface.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-ladee-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46952)3 Apr 2014 - NASA Satellite to Continue Gathering Data Up to Planned Lunar Impact
NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft is gradually lowering its orbital altitude to continue making science observations prior to its planned impact on the moon's surface on or before April 21.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/images/default-solarsys.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46973)8 Apr 2014 - Webb Telescope's Heart Complete, Final Instrument Installed
The last piece of the James Webb Space Telescope's heart was installed inside the world's largest clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-lro-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=46972)8 Apr 2014 - NASA's LRO Mission and North America to Experience Total Lunar Eclipse
When people in North America look up at the sky in the early morning hours of April 15, they can expect the moon to look a little different.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-mro.gif (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47052)16 Apr 2014 - NASA Mars Orbiter Spies Rover Near Martian Butte
An image taken from orbit around Mars shows NASA's Curiosity Mars rover at its April 11, 2014, location beside a rock layer that may become the mission's next drilling target.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-hst-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47132)23 Apr 2014 - NASA Hubble Exhibit at National Air and Space Museum
Two instruments that played critical roles in discoveries made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope now are on display in an exhibit at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington. c


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-marsscilab-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47152)25 Apr 2014 - Drill Here? NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Inspects Site
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has maneuvered into place for close-up examination of a sandstone surface, a possible target for the mission's next drilling into a rock.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-marsscilab-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47252)6 May 2014 - NASA's Curiosity Rover Drills Sandstone Slab on Mars
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover collected powder drilled from a rock on Mars on Monday, the third time this has ever been done and the first time on a sandstone target.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-hst-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47293)12 May 2014 - A Look at the Numbers as NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Enters its 25th Year
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope recently marked its 24th year in space and to celebrate its 25th year, NASA is taking a look at some of the amazing statistics generated by the world-famous telescope.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-rosetta-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47313)15 May 2014 - Rosetta's Target Comet Becoming Active
The target of ESA's Rosetta mission has started to reveal its true personality as a comet, its dusty veil clearly developing over the last six weeks.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/images/default-mars.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47354)19 May 2014 - NASA Rover Gains Martian Vista From Ridgeline
The rim surrounding Endeavour Crater on Mars recedes southward, then sweeps around to the east in a vista obtained by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-mro.gif (http://mars.nasa.gov/mro/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=1640)22 May 2014 - NASA Mars Weathercam Helps Find Big New Crater
Researchers have discovered on the Red Planet the largest fresh meteor-impact crater ever firmly documented with before-and-after images. The images were captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-mro.gif (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47393)22 May 2014 - NASA Mars Weathercam Helps Find Big New Crater
Researchers have discovered on the Red Planet the largest fresh meteor-impact crater ever firmly documented with before-and-after images. The images were captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-cassini-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47433)27 May 2014 - Sunsets on Titan Reveal the Complexity of Hazy Exoplanets
Scientists working with data from NASA's Cassini mission have developed a new way to understand the atmospheres of exoplanets by using Saturn's smog-enshrouded moon Titan as a stand-in.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/pia18006LDSDBig-MAIN1-br2_160X120.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47454)29 May 2014 - NASA Coverage for Saucer-Shaped Test Vehicle Flight
NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project will fly a rocket-powered, saucer-shaped test vehicle into near-space next week from the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-grail-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47453)29 May 2014 - NASA Missions Let Scientists See Moon's Dancing Tide From Orbit
Scientists combined observations from two NASA missions to check out the moon's lopsided shape and how it changes under Earth's sway - a response not seen from orbit before.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-marsscilab-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47514)10 Jun 2014 - Mercury Passes in Front of the Sun, as Seen From Mars
New NASA images from Mars showing Mercury as a dim spot against the sun are the first observation from any planet other than Earth of any planet's solar transit.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/PIA17666_160X120.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47513)10 Jun 2014 - NASA Instruments on Rosetta Start Comet Science
Three NASA science instruments on the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft are beginning observations and sending science data back to Earth.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/images/default-asteroids.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47553)12 Jun 2014 - Giant Telescopes Pair Up to Image Near-Earth Asteroid
NASA scientists using Earth-based radar have produced sharp views of a recently discovered asteroid as it slid silently past our planet


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/137120main_hst_pluto1_full_0_160X120.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47573)13 Jun 2014 - Cracks in Pluto's Moon Could Indicate it Once Had an Underground Ocean
If the icy surface of Pluto's giant moon Charon is cracked, analysis of the fractures could reveal if its interior was warm, perhaps warm enough to have maintained a subterranean ocean of liquid water, according to a new NASA-funded study.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/images/default-ast_433eros.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47613)17 Jun 2014 - NASA Update on Asteroid Redirect Mission
On Thursday, June 19, NASA will host a televised update on recent progress and upcoming milestones in the agency's efforts to identify, capture and relocate an asteroid, and send astronauts to take samples of it in the 2020s.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-cassini-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47614)17 Jun 2014 - Titan Flybys Test the Talents of NASA's Cassini Team
As NASA's Cassini spacecraft zooms toward Saturn's smoggy moon Titan for a targeted flyby on June 18, mission scientists are excitedly hoping to repeat a scientific tour de force that will provide valuable new insights into the nature of the moon.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/EW1038528553G.3band.nomap_160X120.png (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47633)17 Jun 2014 - MESSENGER Modifies Orbit to Prepare for Low-Altitude Campaign
MESSENGER successfully completed the first orbit-correction maneuver of its Second Extended Mission.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-arm-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47653)19 Jun 2014 - Spitzer Spies an Odd, Tiny Asteroid
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have measured the size of an asteroid candidate for NASA's proposed Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM).


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-rosetta-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47657)19 Jun 2014 - Rosetta Closing in on Comet
The Rosetta spacecraft is beginning observations and sending science data back to Earth. It will become the first craft to orbit a comet and land a probe on its nucleus.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-hst-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47655)19 Jun 2014 - NASA's Swift Satellite Tallies Water Production of Mars-bound Comet
In late May, NASA's Swift satellite imaged comet Siding Spring, which will brush astonishingly close to Mars later this year.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-marsscilab-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47673)23 Jun 2014 - NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover Marks First Martian Year with Mission Successes
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover will complete a Martian year -- 687 Earth days -- on June 24, having accomplished the mission's main goal of determining whether Mars once offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-cassini-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47675)23 Jun 2014 - Titan's Building Blocks Might Pre-date Saturn
A combined NASA and European Space Agency (ESA)-funded study has found firm evidence that nitrogen in the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan originated in conditions similar to the cold birthplace of the most ancient comets from the Oort cloud.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-pkb-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47674)23 Jun 2014 - What If Voyager Had Explored Pluto?
Voyager 1 actually could have reached Pluto after its Saturn flyby, had it been targeted to do so. Mission planners chose to target Saturn's moon Titan instead.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-mer_a-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47693)24 Jun 2014 - Aluminum-Bearing Site on Mars Draws NASA Visitor
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is examining a rocky, windswept ridge where aluminum in a clay mineral was mapped from orbit.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-marsscilab-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47733)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/PIA18017-LDSD-th2.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47754)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/PIA18017-LDSD-th1.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47753)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/ldsd20140628-th.jpg (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-208)28 Jun 2014 - NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator Lifts Off
Get the latest information on Saturday's test.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-cassini-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47796)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-rosetta-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47795)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-hst-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47813)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-cassini-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47833)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-pkb-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47896)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/PIA00139_th1.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47899)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-ace-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47898)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-europaclipper-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47897)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-marsscilab-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47900)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-lro-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47903)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-voyager_1-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47902)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/pia18402-stills_160X120.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47901)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-wise-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47915)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-ladee-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47914)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-voyager_1-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47913)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-rosetta-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47916)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-odyssey-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47917)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-mars2020-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47953)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/PIA18406-PIXL_160X120.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47957)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/PIA18407-SHERLOC_160X120.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47956)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/PIA18405-MAIN_160X120.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47955)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-rosetta-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47958)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-marsscilab-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47959)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-human_space_flight.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47977)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-marsscilab-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47976)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-marsscilab-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47975)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-odyssey-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47979)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/comet_on_3_august_2014_160X120.png (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47978)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-cassini-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47981)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/LDSD_RockerFire-160-120-MAIN-SSE.gif (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47980)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-cassini-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47993)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-stardust-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47996)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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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-pkb-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47999)21 Aug 2014 - NASA TV to Air Events About Pluto-Bound Spacecraft
Media and the public are invited to attend two events Monday, Aug. 25 from 10 a.m. - noon PDT (1-3 p.m. EDT) to learn more about the agency's New Horizons mission to Pluto and its historic connection to the Voyager spacecraft's visit to Neptune in 1989.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-voyager_2-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48000)21 Aug 2014 - Voyager Map Details Neptune's Strange Moon Triton
Like an old film, Voyager's historic footage of Triton has been "restored" and used to construct the best-ever global color map of that strange moon.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-marsscilab-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48002)22 Aug 2014 - Mars Rover Team Chooses Not to Drill 'Bonanza King'
Evaluation of a pale, flat Martian rock as the potential next drilling target for NASA's Curiosity Mars rover determined that the rock was not stable enough for safe drilling.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-pkb-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48022)25 Aug 2014 - NASA Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Crosses Neptune's Orbit
NASA's Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has traversed the orbit of Neptune. This is its last major crossing en route to becoming the first probe to make a close encounter with distant Pluto on July 14, 2015.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-rosetta-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48021)25 Aug 2014 - Rosetta: Landing Site Search Narrows
The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission has chosen five candidate landing sites on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for its Philae lander.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-pkb-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48020)25 Aug 2014 - 25 Years After Neptune: Reflections on Voyager
Members of the Voyager team reflect on the mission's Neptune encounter, 25 years later.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/medal_mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48023)26 Aug 2014 - Solar System Ambassador Recognized for Going Above and Beyond
As a recipient of the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, Patrick Wiggins joins the likes of Carl Sagan, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-sirtf.gif (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48039)28 Aug 2014 - NASA's Spitzer Telescope Witnesses Asteroid Smashup
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted an eruption of dust around a young star, possibly the result of a smashup between large asteroids. This type of collision can eventually lead to the formation of planets.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-mer_a-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48040)29 Aug 2014 - Memory Reformat Planned for Opportunity Mars Rover
An increasing frequency of computer resets on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has prompted the rover team to make plans to reformat the rover's flash memory.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-pkb-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48060)29 Aug 2014 - New Horizons Commanded into Last Pre-Pluto Slumber
Rest up, New Horizons - you have a busy 2015 ahead.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-cassini-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48062)3 Sep 2014 - Icy Aquifers on Titan Transform Methane Rainfall
The NASA and European Space Agency Cassini mission has revealed hundreds of lakes and seas spread across the north polar region of Saturn's moon Titan.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/2014rc_ca2-MAIN_160X120.png (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48061)3 Sep 2014 - Small Asteroid to Safely Pass Close to Earth Sunday
A house-sized asteroid will safely fly past Earth this Sunday, Sept. 7. The asteroid, 2014 RC, is about 60 feet (20 meters) wide.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-rosetta-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48063)4 Sep 2014 - NASA Instrument aboard European Spacecraft Returns First Science Results
A NASA instrument aboard the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Rosetta orbiter has successfully made its first delivery of science data from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-rosetta-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48064)4 Sep 2014 - JPL to Host NASA Social Highlighting Comets
NASA will hold a one-day NASA Social for up to 50 of its social media followers on Oct. 13, 2014, at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-galileo-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48079)8 Sep 2014 - Scientists Find Evidence of 'Diving' Tectonic Plates on Europa
Scientists have found evidence of plate tectonics on Jupiter's moon Europa. This indicates the first sign of this type of surface-shifting geological activity on a world other than Earth.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/FRingMap_Secondary_160.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48080)8 Sep 2014 - Bright Clumps in Saturn Ring Now Mysteriously Scarce
A NASA-funded study finds a drop in the number of bright clumps in one of Saturn's rings over the past 30 years, suggesting small moonlets there have been on the decline.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/pia18604-MAIN_pcam-Sol3754B_L257atc_160X120.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48082)9 Sep 2014 - Mars Rover Opportunity's Vista Includes Long Tracks
Wheel tracks from about a month of driving on Mars recede into the distance in a recent color view captured by the Pancam on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-marsscilab-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48083)9 Sep 2014 - NASA Holds Telecon About Curiosity Mars Rover Science Campaign
NASA will host a telecon at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT) Thursday, Sept. 11, to discuss mission status and the future science campaign for the Mars rover Curiosity mission.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/PIA18429_FULL_160X120.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48100)11 Sep 2014 - First Map of Rosetta's Comet
Scientists on the Rosetta mission have mapped several distinctive regions on the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-rosetta-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48119)15 Sep 2014 - 'J' Marks the Spot for Rosetta's Lander
The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission has chosen the primary and backup cometary landing sites for its November landing attempt.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-messenger-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48122)12 Sep 2014 - Second of Four Planned Maneuvers Extends MESSENGER Orbital Operations
MESSENGER mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., conducted the second of four maneuvers designed to raise the spacecraft's minimum altitude sufficiently to extend orbital operations and ...


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-maven-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48121)12 Sep 2014 - NASA to hold Sept. 17 Briefing on MAVEN Mars Orbit Insertion, Events Coverage
NASA will host a televised media briefing at 1 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, Sept. 17, to outline activities around the Sunday, Sept. 21 orbital insertion at Mars of the agency's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-dawn-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48139)16 Sep 2014 - Dawn Operating Normally After Safe Mode Triggered
The Dawn spacecraft has resumed normal ion thrusting after the thrusting unexpectedly stopped and the spacecraft entered safe mode on September 11. That anomaly occurred shortly before a planned communication with NASA's Deep Space Network that ...


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-maven-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48140)17 Sep 2014 - NASA Mars Spacecraft Ready for Sept. 21 Orbit Insertion
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft is nearing its scheduled Sept. 21 insertion into Martian orbit after completing a 10-month interplanetary journey of 442 million miles.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-maven-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48160)21 Sep 2014 - NASA's Newest Mars Mission Spacecraft Enters Orbit
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft successfully entered Mars' orbit at 7:24 p.m. PDT (10:24 p.m. EDT) Sunday, Sept. 21, where it now will prepare to study the Red Planet's upper atmosphere as never done before.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-maven-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48179)23 Sep 2014 - CME Week: Coronal Mass Ejections at Mars
Looking across the Mars landscape presents a bleak image: a barren, dry rocky view as far as the eye can see. But scientists think the vista might once have been quite different. It may have teemed with water and even been hospitable to microbial ...


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-marsscilab-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48181)25 Sep 2014 - NASA Rover Drill Pulls First Taste From Mars Mountain
The robotic arm of NASA's Curiosity rover is holding the rover's first sample of rock powder drilled from the base of Mount Sharp on Mars.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-rosetta-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48199)26 Sep 2014 - Rosetta to Deploy Lander on November 12
The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission will deploy its lander, Philae, to the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Nov. 12.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-cassini-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48202)1 Oct 2014 - Swirling Cloud at Titan's Pole is Cold and Toxic
Scientists analyzing data from NASA's Cassini mission have discovered that a giant, toxic cloud is hovering over the south pole of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, after the atmosphere there cooled dramatically.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-grail-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48203)1 Oct 2014 - NASA Mission Points to Origin of 'Ocean of Storms' on Earth's Moon
Using data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL), mission scientists have solved a lunar mystery almost as old as the moon itself.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-marsscilab-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48219)2 Oct 2014 - Mars Rover Technology Adapted to Detect Gas Leaks
In collaboration with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) announced that it is testing state-of-the-art technology adapted from NASA's Mars rover program.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/images/default-com_comet67pchuryumovgerasimenko.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48220)2 Oct 2014 - A 'Comet' Lands in Pasadena
JPL is participating in AxS 2014, an arts and sciences celebration in Pasadena, California, which includes an interactive comet sculpture on display through Oct. 5.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/astrobiology20141006_160X120.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48240)6 Oct 2014 - NASA Selects New Science Teams for Astrobiology Research
NASA has awarded five-year grants totaling almost $50 million to seven research teams nationwide, including one from the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/mars_comet-full_160X120.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48239)6 Oct 2014 - NASA Holds Briefing to Discuss Comet Flyby of Mars Observations
NASA will host a briefing at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) Thursday, Oct. 9, to outline the space and Earth-based assets that will have extraordinary opportunities to image and study a comet from relatively close range to Mars on Sunday, Oct. 19.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-human_space_flight.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48243)8 Oct 2014 - NASA Parachute Engineers Have Appetite for Destruction
NASA engineers are bound and determined to destroy a perfectly good parachute this week during the latest test for the agency's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator project.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/europa_cubesats_3_0_10X120.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48244)8 Oct 2014 - JPL Selects Europa CubeSat Proposals for Study
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has chosen proposals from 10 universities for CubeSats that could potentially enhance a Europa mission concept currently under study by NASA.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/images/default-com_c2013a1sidingspring1.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48245)9 Oct 2014 - NASA Prepares its Science Fleet for Oct. 19 Mars Comet Encounter
NASA's extensive fleet of science assets, particularly those orbiting and roving Mars, have front row seats to image and study a once-in-a-lifetime comet flyby on Sunday, Oct. 19.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-maven-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48259)14 Oct 2014 - NASA Mission Provides Its First Look at Martian Upper Atmosphere
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft has provided scientists their first look at a storm of energetic solar particles at Mars, produced unprecedented ultraviolet images of the tenuous oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon coronas ...


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-rosetta-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48260)14 Oct 2014 - Rosetta Selflessly Beams Back Comet Selfie
A composite image from a camera on the Rosetta mission's Philae comet lander shows a solar array, with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in the background.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-hst-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48261)15 Oct 2014 - NASA's Hubble Telescope Finds Potential Kuiper Belt Targets for New Horizons Pluto Mission
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered three Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) the agency's New Horizons spacecraft could potentially visit after it flies by Pluto in July 2015.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-messenger-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48263)15 Oct 2014 - MESSENGER Provides First Optical Images of Ice Near Mercury's North Pole
NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft has provided the first optical images of ice and other frozen volatile materials within permanently shadowed craters near Mercury's north pole.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-rosetta-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48262)15 Oct 2014 - Rosetta's Comet Landing Site Close Up
A mosaic from the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft shows "Site J," the primary landing site on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for the mission's Philae lander. Rosetta is the first mission to attempt a soft landing on a comet.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-cassini-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48264)16 Oct 2014 - Cassini Caught in Hyperion's Particle Beam
Static electricity is known to play an important role on Earth's airless, dusty moon, but evidence of static charge building up on other objects in the solar system has been elusive until now


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-cassini-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48281)16 Oct 2014 - Saturn Moon May Hide a 'Fossil' Core or an Ocean
A new study suggests the cratered surface of Saturn's icy moon Mimas indicates the moon's frozen core is shaped something like a football, or the moon has a liquid water ocean.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-dsn.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48279)16 Oct 2014 - Communicating a Comet Flyby
NASA's Deep Space Network will be monitoring the Mars fleet nonstop Sunday as a comet flies past.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-rosetta-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48282)16 Oct 2014 - Your Chance To Name A Comet Landing Site
ESA invites you to submit a name for Rosetta mission's comet landing site. Winner gets a trip to Germany to attend events related to the comet landing on Nov. 12.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-mro.gif (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48299)19 Oct 2014 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Studies Comet Flyby
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has sent home more data about Mars than all other missions combined, is also now providing data about a comet that buzzed The Red Planet today (Oct. 19).


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-odyssey-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48302)19 Oct 2014 - NASA's Mars Odyssey Orbiter Watches Comet Fly Near
The longest-lived robot ever sent to Mars came through its latest challenge in good health, reporting home on schedule after sheltering behind Mars from possible comet dust.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-odyssey-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48301)19 Oct 2014 - All Three NASA Mars Orbiters Healthy After Comet Flyby
All three NASA orbiters around Mars confirmed their healthy status Sunday after each took shelter behind Mars during a period of risk from dust released by a passing comet.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-maven-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48300)19 Oct 2014 - NASA's MAVEN Studies Passing Comet and Its Effects
NASA's newest orbiter at Mars, MAVEN, took precautions to avoid harm from a dust-spewing comet that flew near Mars today and is studying the flyby's effects on the Red Planet's atmosphere.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-mer_a-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48304)20 Oct 2014 - NASA Rover Opportunity Views Comet Near Mars
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity caught an image of a celestial visitor -- comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring -- as the comet approached near to Mars on Oct. 19, 2014.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/images/default-meteors.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48303)20 Oct 2014 - Orionid Meteor Shower Peak Viewing Available on Ustream
Orionid meteors appear every year around this time when Earth orbits through an area of space littered with debris from the ancient comet. Normally, the shower produces 20 or so meteors per hour.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/images/default-sun.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48306)20 Oct 2014 - Sunset Solar Eclipse
Sunsets are always pretty. One sunset this month could be out of this world. On Thursday, Oct. 23rd, the setting sun across eastern parts of the USA will be red, beautiful and ... crescent-shaped.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-mro.gif (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48305)20 Oct 2014 - Mars Orbiter Image Shows Comet Nucleus is Small
A camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken the highest-resolution image ever made of an Oort Cloud comet, taking advantage of the comet's Mars flyby.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-rosetta-mp.jpg (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48321)24 Oct 2014 - Rosetta's Comet Scrambling Its Jets
Rosetta's comet destination is beginning to show a clearly visible increase in activity.


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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/images/miss-mro.gif (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=48320)24 Oct 2014 - Mars Orbiter's Spectrometer Shows Oort Comet's Coma
The imaging spectrometer on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has provided an image of the coma surrounding a comet that flew near Mars this week.


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