December 27, 2007 Countdown to Launch of Jet Propulsion Lab Rose Parade FloatVolunteers from JPL are helping with the finishing touches on the Lab's Rose Parade float saluting 50 Years of Space Exploration. |
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December 25, 2007 Happy HolidaysHappy holidays, courtesy of the Cassini-Huygens Project Team studying Saturn. |
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December 22, 2007 Cassini Headed South on TitanCassini successfully completed its most recent Titan flyby on Dec. 20, 2007, and data are currently being analyzed. |
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December 20, 2007 10,000 Earths' Worth of Fresh Dust Found Near Star ExplosionAstronomers have at last found definitive evidence that the universe's first dust -- the celestial stuff that seeded future generations of stars and planets -- was forged in the explosions of massive stars. |
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December 18, 2007 NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Begins Interplanetary Cruise PhaseNASA's Dawn spacecraft has begun the interplanetary cruise phase of its 8-year, 3-billion mile journey to asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres. |
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December 18, 2007 Mars: Closest Approach 2007Now playing online -- a new Martian movie showing the planet rotating. The movie was made from four images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, built and designed by JPL. |
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December 17, 2007 Black Hole Fires at Neighboring GalaxyA powerful jet from a supermassive black hole is blasting another galaxy, according to new results from NASA telescopes, including Spitzer. |
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December 17, 2007 NASA Climate Change 'Peacemakers' Aided Nobel EffortNASA's Earth scientists watched with pride when the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and a United Nations panel that spent two decades assessing Earth's changing climate. |
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December 13, 2007 NASA Sends Spacecraft on Mission to Comet Hartley 2NASA has approved the retargeting of the Epoxi mission for a flyby of comet Hartley 2 on Oct. 11, 2010. |
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December 12, 2007 Saturn's Rings May be Old TimersNew observations by NASA's Cassini spacecraft indicate the rings of Saturn, once thought to have formed during the age of the dinosaurs, instead may have been created roughly 4.5 billion years ago, when the solar system was still under construction. |
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December 12, 2007 NASA Satellites Help Lift Cloud of Uncertainty on Climate ChangeNew findings from NASA's CloudSat and other Earth observing satellites offer important insights into this year's record reduction of Arctic sea ice, global rainfall patterns and the effects of pollution on clouds. |
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December 12, 2007 Cassini Captures Best View Yet of Saturn's Ring CurrentScientists have gotten their best "look" ever at the invisible ring of energetic ions trapped in Saturn’s giant magnetic field. |
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December 12, 2007 Planetary Scientists Close in on Saturn's Elusive RotationDeep below Saturn's cloud tops, the planet rotates at a constant speed. Determining this interior period of rotation has proven complicated, but thanks to new Cassini results, European scientists have taken an important step forward. |
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December 11, 2007 Amazing Grace Team Receives Prestigious AwardA mission that has changed the way we study Earth's gravitational forces has been recognized with a prestigious award for helping scientists better understand our home planet. |
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December 11, 2007 Mars Orbiter Examines 'Lace' and 'Lizard Skin' TerrainSAN FRANCISCO - Scrutiny by NASA's newest Mars orbiter is helping scientists learn the stories of some of the weirdest landscapes on Mars, as well as more familiar-looking parts of the Red Planet. |
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