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Spirit's wheels digging into soft ground

May 11, 2009

Soft Ground Puts Spirit in Danger Despite Gain in Daily Energy

The five wheels that still rotate on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit have been slipping severely in soft soil during recent attempts to drive, sinking the wheels about halfway into the ground.

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before and after images of soil moisture

May 11, 2009

NASA's QuikScat Sees Santa Barbara 'Quick Dry'

Hot weather just before the Santa Barbara, Calif., wildfire quickly dried up soil moisture from rain one day prior, contributing to the fire danger.

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shuttle launch

May 11, 2009

Mission to Return JPL-Built Hubble Camera Underway

Space Shuttle Atlantis has lifted on a mission whose goals include extracting and returning the JPL-built Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2.

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planetary nebula known as Kohoutek 4-55

May 10, 2009

Hubble Photographs a Planetary Nebula to Commemorate Decommissioning of Super Camera

The Hubble Space Telescope photographed a planetary nebula to commemorate the decommissioning of a super camera.

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M100 Galactic Nucleus

May 10, 2009

The Camera That Saved Hubble... Twice: JPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2

The story and the people behind Hubble's imaging workhorse.

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view of Mars Science Lab model on Photosynth

May 7, 2009

NASA Releases Interactive 3-D Views of Space Station, New Mars Rover

NASA released an interactive, 3-D photographic collection of the International Space Station and a model of the next Mars rover.

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Cassini and NASA sites

May 6, 2009

NASA Wins Two Webby Awards for Internet Excellence

NASA's main site won the People's Voice award for best government Web site and the Cassini mission won for best science site.

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Helix Nebula

May 6, 2009

NASA's Spitzer Telescope Warms Up To New Career

The primary mission of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is about to end after more than five-and-a-half years of probing the cosmos with its keen infrared eye.

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image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

May 6, 2009

Productive Mars Camera Team Accelerates Releases

Camera-team members are now posting tens of thousands of new image products each month from the high-resolution camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

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Gulfstream G-III

May 6, 2009

Airborne Scientists Arrive in the Arctic

Hop aboard and fasten your seat belts as a NASA engineer takes you inside NASA's just-launched Arctic airborne radar expedition.

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