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12/30/04 - Cassini Caps off 2004 With Flyby of Icy Moon Iapetus
NASA's Cassini spacecraft is set to cap off 2004 with an
encounter of Saturn's ying-yang moon Iapetus (eye-APP-eh-tuss) on
New Year's Eve.
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12/29/04 - JPL/Caltech Float Set to Launch on Rose Parade Mission
A towering 50-foot robot from JPL and Caltech will thrill throngs of parade-goers on New Year's Day.
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12/28/04 - Cassini Mission Status Report
NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully performed a getaway
maneuver on Monday, Dec. 27, to keep it from following the
European Space Agency's Huygens probe into the atmosphere of
Saturn's moon Titan.
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12/24/04 - Cassini Mission Status Report
The European Space Agency's Huygens probe successfully detached from NASA's Cassini orbiter today to begin a three-week journey to Saturn's moon Titan.
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12/21/04 - European Space Agency's Huygens Probe Set to Detach From Cassini Orbiter
The highlights of the first year of the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn can be broken into two chapters: first, the arrival of the Cassini orbiter at Saturn in June, and second, the release of the Huygens probe on Dec. 24, 2004, on a path toward Titan.
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12/21/04 - Aging Universe May Still be Spawning Massive Galaxies
NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has spotted what appear to be massive "baby" galaxies in our corner of the universe. Previously, astronomers thought the universe's birth rate had dramatically declined and only small galaxies were forming.
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12/16/04 - Cassini Shows Before And After Look At Saturn's Moon Titan
Cassini's second close flyby of Titan completes a 'before' and 'after' look at the fuzzy moon and provides the first direct evidence of changing weather patterns in the skies over Titan.
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12/14/04 - NASA'S Aura Satellite Sheds new Light On Air Quality and Ozone Hole
NASA scientists announced the agency's Aura spacecraft is providing the first daily, direct global measurements of low-level ozone and many other pollutants affecting air quality.
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12/14/04 - NASA Selects Investigations for the Mars Science Laboratory
NASA has selected eight proposals to provide instrumentation and associated science investigations for the mobile Mars Science Laboratory rover, scheduled for launch in 2009. Proposals selected today were submitted to NASA in response to an announcement of opportunity released in April.
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12/14/04 - NASA Set to Launch First Comet Impact Probe
Launch and flight teams are in final preparations for the planned Jan. 12, 2005, liftoff
from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., of NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft.
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