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Spectacular High-Res Image of Earth: The Other Side
Last week, NASA released its 2012 version of the famous "Blue Marble" image. By using a planet-pointing satellite, Suomi NPP, the space agency created an extremely high resolution photograph ...
Fri 3 Feb 12 from Wired Science
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Surface of Mars an unlikely place for life after 600 million year drought, say scientists
Mars may have been arid for more than 600 million years, making it too hostile for any life to survive on the planet's surface, according to researchers who have been carrying out the painstaking ...
Fri 3 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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Iran launches observation satellite: media
Iran on Friday launched an observation satellite into orbit above Earth, its third since 2009, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Fri 3 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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Video: How the View From a Comet Might Look
The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft is heading for a comet. The ambitious mission -- scheduled to enter orbit Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in January of 2014 and place a tiny lander ...
Fri 3 Feb 12 from Wired Science
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SpaceX flight to ISS could be late March: NASA
The first test flight of a commercial spacecraft to the International Space Station could happen in late March, NASA said on Thursday.
Thu 2 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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GRAIL returns first video from moon's far side
(PhysOrg.com) -- A camera aboard one of NASA's twin Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) lunar spacecraft has returned its first unique view of the far side of the moon. MoonKAM, ...
Wed 1 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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NASA's Juno spacecraft refines its path to Jupiter
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft successfully refined its flight path Wednesday with the mission's first trajectory correction maneuver. The maneuver took place on Feb. ...
Fri 3 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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NASA says Russian space woes no worry
(AP) -- NASA says it is still confident with the quality of Russian manned rockets, despite an embarrassing series of glitches and failures in the Russian space program.
Thu 2 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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NASA phone nanosensor can detect diabetes and cancer from your breath
It’s amazing when we see stories about science-fiction becoming a reality. Pictured above is a clip-on nanosensor for a mobile phone that has been developed by NASA to detect toxins in ...
Fri 3 Feb 12 from Geek.com
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Video of the lunar far side from GRAIL/Ebb
This is so cool: NASA’s twin GRAIL spacecraft (now named Ebb and ...
Fri 3 Feb 12 from Discover Magazine
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