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artist concept of Herschel and Planck

May 5, 2009

Herschel and Planck Share Ride to Space

Two 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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Hourglass Nebula

May 5, 2009

A Universal Art Form: NASA's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2

Throughout history, humanity has been moved by the work of the great artists of their age.

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Venus

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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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Interview

May 4, 2009

If Spitzer Could Talk: An Interview with NASA's Coolest Space Telescope

NASA'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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Hubble Deep Field

May 4, 2009

Top Five Breakthroughs From Hubble's Workhorse Camera

Here 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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model of Mars Science Laboratory

May 4, 2009

Visitors Throng to Annual JPL Open House

More than 30,000 people visited JPL for the annual Open House the weekend of May 2 and 3.

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artist concept of ExoMars

May 4, 2009

NASA Selects JPL Experiment for European Mars Mission

An 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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John Casani

April 30, 2009

JPL's John Casani Honored by Air and Space Museum

John 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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Petermann Floating Tongue in north Greenland

April 30, 2009

Arctic Trek to 'Break the Ice' on New NASA Airborne Radars

NASA 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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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope

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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