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December 15, 2008 Phoenix Site on Mars May be in Dry Climate Cycle PhaseThe Martian arctic soil that NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander dug into this year is very cold and very dry. |
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December 15, 2008 Saturn's Dynamic Moon Enceladus Shows More Signs of ActivityThe closer scientists look at Saturn's small moon Enceladus, the more they find evidence of an active world. |
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December 11, 2008 Mars Orbiter Completes First Phase of Science MissionNASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has completed its primary, two-year science phase. |
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December 11, 2008 Epoxi Spacecraft Burns for HomeThe NASA/JPL Epoxi spacecraft fired its engines today to prepare for a Dec. 29 Earth flyby. The Epoxi mission is scheduled to fly past comet Hartley 2 in 2010. |
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December 10, 2008 Astronomers Find the Two Dimmest Stellar BulbsIt's a tie! The new record-holder for dimmest known star-like object in the universe goes to twin "failed" stars, each of which shines feebly with only one millionth the light of our sun. |
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December 10, 2008 What's in a Name?Whether referred to as global warming or climate change, the consequences of the changes currently being observed in Earth's climate system could be considerable. |
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December 9, 2008 Oscillation Rules as the Pacific CoolsThe latest image of sea-surface height measurements from the U.S./French Jason-1 oceanography satellite shows the Pacific Ocean remains locked in a strong, cool phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, a large, long-lived pattern of climate variability in the Pacific associated with a general cooling of Pacific waters. |
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December 9, 2008 Hubble Telescope Finds Carbon Dioxide on an Extrasolar PlanetNASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. |
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December 8, 2008 Rivers of Gas Flow Around Stars in New Space ImageA new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a turbulent star-forming region, where rivers of gas and stellar winds are eroding thickets of dusty material. |
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December 8, 2008 New 3-D Views from Mars Reconnaissance OrbiterThe team operating the highest-resolution camera orbiting Mars has posted 362 stereo images, providing three-dimensional views of mounds, canyons, gullies and other features. |
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December 4, 2008 NASA Orbiter Finds Martian Rock Record With 10 Beats to the BarClimate cycles persisting for millions of years on ancient Mars left a record of rhythmic patterns in thick stacks of sedimentary rock layers, revealed in three-dimensional detail by a telescopic camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. |
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December 4, 2008 Next NASA Mars Mission Rescheduled for 2011NASA's Mars Science Laboratory will launch two years later than previously planned, in the fall of 2011. |
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December 3, 2008 Vivid Death of a StarNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope contributed to this view of the remains of a star whose death was witnessed on Earth centuries ago. |
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December 3, 2008 New Study Finds Sumatra Still at High Risk for Big QuakeTwo large quakes beneath Sumatra in 2007 did not adequately relieve built-up stress, according to a study that includes a JPL researcher and radar data. |
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December 1, 2008 NASA Finishes Listening for Phoenix Mars LanderAfter nearly a month of daily checks to determine whether Martian NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander would be able to communicate again, the agency has stopped using its Mars orbiters to hail the lander and listen for its beep. |