JPL's Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument is aboard India's maiden moon voyage, Chandrayaan-1. A maneuver performed Tuesday, Nov. 4, placed the Indian spacecraft on a path toward the moon.
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Fingers, Loops and Bays in the Crab Nebula
Data from Chandra provides the first clear view of the faint boundary of the Crab Nebula?s X-ray-emitting pulsar wind nebula.
NASA Hearing Daily From Weak Phoenix Mars Lander
11.03.08
?>NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has communicated with controllers daily since Oct. 30 through relays to Mars orbiters.
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NASA's Phoenix Mission Faces Survival Challenges
Phoenix, with its solar-electric power shrinking due to shorter daylight hours and a dust storm, did not respond to an orbiter's attempt to communicate with it Wednesday night and Thursday morning.
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Cassini to Swing Past Enceladus →
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will fly by Saturn's moon Enceladus on Fri., Oct. 31. Join mission members as they blog about the upcoming enoounter.
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NASA's Phoenix Mission Faces Survival Challenges
NASA'S Phoenix Mars Lander entered safe mode late yesterday in response to a low-power fault brought on by deteriorating weather conditions.
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NASA Orbiter Reveals Details of a Wetter Mars
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has observed a new category of minerals spread across large regions of Mars.
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NASA's Phoenix Mission Faces Survival Challenges
In a race against time and the elements, engineers with NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander mission hope to extend the lander's survival by gradually shutting down some of its instruments and heaters, starting today.
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Hubble Announces A Major Extrasolar Planet Discovery
11.07.08 - NASA will hold a Science Update to report on a significant discovery about planets orbiting other stars at 2:30 p.m. EST, Thursday, Nov. 13.
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NASA Managers Delay Hubble Servicing Mission
10.30.08 - NASA managers have announced that they will not meet a February 2009 launch date for the fifth and final shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
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NASA Updates Thursday's Hubble Servicing Mission and Space Shuttle Readiness Review Briefing Times
10.30.08 - The time of Thursday's media teleconference to discuss the status of the shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope has changed to 5:30 p.m. EDT. A news conference at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to discuss the status of the next space shuttle launch now will begin no earlier than 6:30 p.m.
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MESSENGER Spacecraft Reveals More Hidden Territory on Mercury
10.29.08 - A NASA spacecraft gliding over the battered surface of Mercury for the second time this year has revealed more previously unseen real estate on the innermost planet.
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The Boundaries of Our Solar System
There are several boundaries at the edge of our solar system. The IBEX mission will study these boundaries to help us understand how they protect life on Earth and astronauts in space from the galactic cosmic rays coming from interstellar space. In this video you will find out what the boundaries of our solar system are.