May 5, 2009 Herschel and Planck Share Ride to SpaceTwo missions to study the cosmos are scheduled to blast into space May 14 aboard the same rocket from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana. |
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May 5, 2009 A Universal Art Form: NASA's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2Throughout history, humanity has been moved by the work of the great artists of their age. |
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May 4, 2009 Happy 20th Birthday To NASA's Magellan Mission!Launched May 4, 1989, NASA's Magellan spacecraft went on to map 99 percent of the surface of planet Venus. |
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May 4, 2009 If Spitzer Could Talk: An Interview with NASA's Coolest Space TelescopeNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is about to use its last drop of the coolant that has chilled it for the past five-and-a-half years. |
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May 4, 2009 Top Five Breakthroughs From Hubble's Workhorse CameraHere are five things you should know about JPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, which is the oldest and longest working instrument aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. |
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May 4, 2009 Visitors Throng to Annual JPL Open HouseMore than 30,000 people visited JPL for the annual Open House the weekend of May 2 and 3. |
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May 4, 2009 NASA Selects JPL Experiment for European Mars MissionAn investigation selected by NASA will help researchers dissect the internal structure of Mars by analyzing variations in the planet's rotation. |
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April 30, 2009 JPL's John Casani Honored by Air and Space MuseumJohn Casani of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has been honored with the National Air and Space Museum's prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award. |
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April 30, 2009 Arctic Trek to 'Break the Ice' on New NASA Airborne RadarsNASA will 'break the ice' on a pair of new airborne radars that can help monitor climate change when a team of scientists embarks this week on a two-month expedition to the vast, frigid terrain of Greenland and Iceland. |
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April 30, 2009 Why Are Galaxies So Smooth?New observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveal how stars are dispersed in spiral galaxies. |
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