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12/29/06 - Year-End Greetings From Saturn
To cap off this past year at the Saturnian frontier, the Cassini imaging team is releasing a smorgasbord of imagery showing heavenly bodies big and small, in motion, and in 3D.
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12/20/06 - Cassini at Saturn: A Photo Contest
Cast your vote for one of many breathtaking views captured by the Cassini spacecraft of Saturn, its rings and its moons.
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12/19/06 - Radar Love: Asteroid Detection and Science
They are the celestial equivalent of sonograms. But their hazy outlines and ghostly features do not document the in-vivo development of a future taxpayer.
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12/14/06 - NASA Tropical Ozone Studies Yield Surprises
Two new NASA-funded studies of ozone in the tropics using NASA satellite data not previously available are giving scientists a fuller understanding of the processes driving ozone chemistry and its impacts on pollution and climate change.
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12/14/06 - NASA Study Finds New Kind of Organics in Stardust Mission
A team of scientists found a new class of organics in comet dust captured from Comet Wild 2 in 2004 by NASA's Stardust spacecraft.
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12/14/06 - Comets as Toolkits for Jump-Starting Life
Just as kits of little plastic bricks can be used to make everything from models of the space shuttle to the statue of liberty, comets are looking more and more like one of nature's toolkits for creating life.
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12/14/06 - Stardust Findings Suggest Comets More Complex Than Thought
Comets may be more than just simple conglomerations of ice, dust and gases. Some may be important windows on the early solar system.
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12/11/06 - Moulin 'Blanc': NASA Expedition Probes Deep Within a Greenland Glacier
JPL Research scientist Dr. Alberto Behar took in the "show" at the moulin this summer. But unlike Paris' famous Moulin Rouge, the star of this moulin was Mother Nature herself, presenting a dazzling display of moving water and ice.
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12/7/06 - Jason Ocean Mapping Mission Turns Five
Five years after launch, the joint NASA/French space agency Jason mission continues precisely measuring the hills and valleys of the ocean surface, expanding our knowledge of ocean circulation, monitoring global sea level variations, improving weather and climate predictions and much more.
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12/7/06 - NASA Study Suggests Quake Forecasts May Be on the Horizon
A new university study funded in part by NASA's QuakeSim project finds that large earthquakes in California tend to cluster in time and could potentially be forecast within a window of two to three years.
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