Nasa 2013

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2 Jan 2013 - Quadrantids Create Year's First Meteor Shower
Unlike the more famous Perseid and Geminid meteor showers, the Quadrantids only last a few hours, so it's the morning of Jan. 3 or nothing.


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31 Dec 2012 - Dawn Journal
Dawn concludes 2012 almost 13,000 times farther from Vesta than it began the year.


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4 Jan 2013 - Opportunity Update
On Sol 2174 (Dec. 27, 2012), the robotic arm was used to reposition the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) on a target called "Vermilion Lake 1" for a multi-sol integration.


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4 Jan 2013 - Mars Science Laboratory Mission Status Report: Curiosity Rover Explores 'Yellowknife Bay'
After imaging during the holidays, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity resumed driving Jan. 3 and pulled within arm's reach of a sinuous rock feature called "Snake River."


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7 Jan 2013 - NASA's Kepler Discovers 461 New Planet Candidates
NASA's Kepler mission Monday announced the discovery of 461 new planet candidates.


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7 Jan 2013 - NASA's Big Mars Rover Makes First Use of Its Brush
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has completed first-time use of a brush it carries to sweep dust off rocks.


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8 Jan 2013 - Cassini Suggests Icing on a Lake
A new model by scientists working on NASA's Cassini mission finds that hydrocarbon ice might float on lakes on Saturn's largest moon.


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10 Jan 2013 - New Horizons Gets a New Year's Workout
Like many of us, New Horizons is starting the new year with a workout regimen. After six months of cruising quietly through the outer solar system, NASA's Pluto-bound spacecraft came out of hibernation last weekend for three weeks of activity.


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10 Jan 2013 - NASA Rules Out Earth Impact in 2036 for Asteroid Apophis
NASA scientists at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., effectively have ruled out the possibility the asteroid Aphophis will impact Earth during a close flyby in 2036.


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11 Jan 2013 - Opportunity Update
The rover completed the in-situ (contact) analysis at the location called "Copper Cliff."


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15 Jan 2013 - Mars Rover Curiosity's Team to Receive Space Foundation Award
The NASA mission that had the nation holding its breath as it tested an ingenious but never-before-used landing technique, and continues to amaze with new discoveries about Mars has been selected as the 2013 recipient of the Space Foundation's ...


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15 Jan 2013 - Asteroid Deflection Mission Seeks Smashing Ideas
ESA is appealing for research ideas to help guide the development of a US-European asteroid deflection mission now under study.


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15 Jan 2013 - NASA Mars Rover Preparing to Drill into First Martian Rock
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is driving toward a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red Planet.


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17 Jan 2013 - Titan Gets a Dune 'Makeover'
NASA's Cassini finds Saturn's largest moon, Titan, might look much younger than it really is because its craters are being erased.


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18 Jan 2013 - Opportunity Update
Opportunity is on the inboard edge of "Cape York" on the rim of Endeavour Crater, now engaged in in-situ (contact) science investigation of veins in the light-toned outcrop "Whitewater Lake," a place the rover visited previously.


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20 Jan 2013 - Martian Crater May Once Have Held Groundwater-Fed Lake
A NASA spacecraft is providing new evidence of a wet underground environment on Mars that adds to an increasingly complex picture of the Red Planet's early evolution.


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22 Jan 2013 - NASA's Veteran Mars Rover Ready to Start 10th Year
Though NASA's newer Mars rover has been capturing more attention recently, durable Opportunity remains hard at work after nine years of roving on the Red Planet.


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23 Jan 2013 - The PI's Perspective: The Seven-Year Itch
It's been seven years since New Horizons' launch on 19 Jan. 2006, and our spacecraft remains healthy and on course


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24 Jan 2013 - Mars Rover Curiosity Uses Arm Camera at Night
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has for the first time used the camera on its arm to take photos at night, illuminated by white lights and ultraviolet lights on the instrument.


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30 Jan 2013 - Curiosity Maneuver Prepares for Drilling
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has placed its drill onto a series of four locations on a Martian rock and pressed down on it with the rover's arm, in preparation for using the drill in coming days.


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