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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December 18, 2008 NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Ready to Ship to FloridaEngineers are getting ready to pack NASA's Kepler spacecraft into a container and ship it off to its launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. |
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December 18, 2008 Scientists Find 'Missing' Mineral and Clues to Mars MysteriesResearchers using a powerful instrument aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have found a long-sought-after mineral on the Martian surface and, with it, unexpected clues to the Red Planet's watery past. |
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December 18, 2008 Hubble Eyes Jupiter-Ganymede ComboThe JPL-developed and -built Wide Field and Planetary 2 camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a view of Jupiter with its moon Ganymede. |
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December 17, 2008 NASA Instrument Inaugurates 3-D Moon ImagingDifferent wavelengths of light provide new information about a region of the moon in an image taken by NASA's instrument aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. |
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December 16, 2008 New Oceanography Mission Data Now AvailableOceanography data that will help scientists around the world better understand climate change are now available. |
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December 16, 2008 Planets Living on the EdgeA new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows one unlucky lot of stars, born into a dangerous neighborhood. |
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December 16, 2008 Students Zoom Aerial Cars in Engineering ContestTwenty-four student teams and six JPL employees raced their hand-built aerial cars in the 11th annual Invention Challenge held Friday, Dec. 12. |
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December 15, 2008 Titan's Volcanoes Give Nasa Spacecraft Chilly ReceptionRecent Cassini spacecraft flybys of Titan have revealed new information about possible ice volcanoes on the small moon. |
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