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January 7, 2009 Planet-Finding Mission Arrives in FloridaNASA's Kepler spacecraft, scheduled to launch in March on a journey to search for other Earths, arrived in Cape Canaveral, Fla. |
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January 5, 2009 Dead Stars Tell Story of Planet BirthObservations made with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveal six dead "white dwarf" stars littered with the remains of shredded asteroids. |
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January 2, 2009 A Change of Seasons on MarsThis image, taken on December 21, shows the Phoenix Mars Lander during the last waning days of northern hemisphere summer. This is the first image targeted to the lander since it ceased activity. |
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December 29, 2008 Mars Rovers Near Five Years of Science and DiscoveryNASA rovers Spirit and Opportunity may still have big achievements ahead as they approach the fifth anniversaries of their memorable landings on Mars. |
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December 29, 2008 Epoxi Spacecraft Soars Past HomeThe NASA/JPL Epoxi spacecraft flew within 43,000 kilometers (26,700 miles) of Earth today. The Epoxi mission is scheduled to fly past comet Hartley 2 on Nov. 4, 2010. |
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December 23, 2008 Four Out of Six ApollosTheir names are now part of exploration history – Sea of Tranquility, Ocean of Storms, Frau Mauro, Hadley Rille, Descartes and Taurus-Littrow. |
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December 23, 2008 Researcher hopes to put fuel cells on the fast trackThe slow evolution of clean-energy solutions is about to kick into high gear, if Sossina M. Haile has anything to say about it. |
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December 23, 2008 To Go Where No Spacecraft Has Gone BeforeScattered loosely around the beltline of Earth's nearest neighbor are six silent sentinels, testaments to America's first moon program. |
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December 22, 2008 What Can Swiss Cheese Teach us About Dark Energy?About 10 years ago, scientists reached the astonishing conclusion that our universe is accelerating apart at ever-increasing speeds, stretching space and time itself like melted cheese. |
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December 19, 2008 NASA Study Links Severe Storm Increases, Global WarmingThe frequency of extremely high clouds in Earth's tropics -- the type associated with severe storms and rainfall -- is increasing as a result of global warming, according to a study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. |
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Mars Rovers Near Five Years of Discovery |
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Rover Naming Contest |
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To Go Where No Spacecraft Has Gone Before |
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Study Links Severe Storm Increases, Global Warming |
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Kepler Spacecraft Ready to Ship to Florida |
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