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November 29, 2005 A Planet With Planets? Spitzer Finds Cosmic OddballPlanets are everywhere these days. They have been spotted around more than 150 stars, and evidence is growing that they also circle "failed," or miniature, stars called brown dwarfs. |
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November 23, 2005 NASA Awards Contract for New Millennium MissionThe next satellite in NASA's New Millennium Program will be designed, developed and built by Orbital Sciences Corporation, Dulles, Va. |
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November 21, 2005 Spirit Marks One Martian Year on the Red PlanetSince Spirit landed on January 3, 2004, Mars has completed one orbit around the sun. This anniversary picture is a synthetic image of the rover on the flank of "Husband Hill" produced using JPL technology. The process combines visualization and image-processing tools with Hollywood-style special effects.
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November 18, 2005 Mars-Bound NASA Craft Tweaks Course, Passes Halfway PointNASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter successfully fired six engines for about 20 seconds today to adjust its flight path in advance of its March 10, 2006, arrival at the red planet. |
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November 17, 2005 Astronomers Assemble Fine Collection of 'Einstein Rings'You can look but you can't touch the new rings discovered by JPLer Dr. Leonidas Moustakas and his colleagues. The team used data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to locate, among other objects, galaxies whose light has been warped into circles called "Einstein rings." |
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November 16, 2005 A View of Chaotic Star BirthLocated 1,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Perseus, a reflection nebula called NGC 1333 epitomizes the beautiful chaos of stars being born. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope can detect the infrared light from these objects, allowing us to peer inside their dusty cradles. |
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November 14, 2005 Meet the First Woman to Drive on Mars!From working with prototype rovers in an Earth-bound sandbox, to controlling the drives of the Mars Exploration Rovers on the red planet, Dr. Ashley Stroupe gets the best of both worlds. |
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November 12, 2005 Rinaldi Named Information ChiefJames Rinaldi has been appointed Chief Information Officer of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. |
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November 11, 2005 Free Lectures on Exploring PlutoTwo free public programs in Pasadena will offer an overview of the upcoming NASA mission to Pluto. |
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November 11, 2005 Mars Odyssey Snaps Crater ContoursRabe Crater lies among hundreds of thousands of other impact craters in the rough-hewn southern highlands of Mars. This false-color view, taken by NASA's Mars Odyssey, uses color to portray the overnight surface temperatures: Bluer colors indicate cold places, red and yellow tints warm ones. This helps scientists understand the composition of the Martian surface. |
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November 10, 2005 Presidential HonorsVinton Cerf, a distinguished visiting scientist at JPL since 1998, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work in the 1970s that led to the development of the Internet. Cerf is now working to take internet technology into interplanetary space. |
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November 9, 2005 Spitzer Captures Cosmic Mountains of CreationA new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveals billowing mountains of dust ablaze with the fires of stellar youth. |
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November 7, 2005 Spirit's 'Everest' PanoramaIt took Spirit three days to acquire all the images combined into this mosaic, called the "Everest Panorama," looking outward in every direction from the summit of "Husband Hill." During that period, the sky changed in color and brightness due to atmospheric dust variations, as shown in contrasting sections of this mosaic. |
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November 4, 2005 Bring Mars in Focus This MonthThrough November, Mars will look like a blazing, orange-yellow object in the night sky. Mars is usually less obvious. The red planet comes close enough for such exceptional viewing only once or twice every 15 or 17 years. |
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November 2, 2005 Radar Sees More 'Cat Scratches' and Hones in on Huygens Landing SiteThe Cassini spacecraft flew by Saturn's moon Titan on Oct. 28, 2005, capturing new radar views that show the Huygens probe landing site and a series of dunes that extend thousands of kilometers across Titan's surface. These so called "cat scratches," curve around teardrop-shaped bright terrain, giving the impression of a Japanese garden of sand raked around boulders. |
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Kepler Starts Hunt for Earth-Like Worlds |
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Herschel and Planck Launch |
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Parachute Test for Mars |
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Eyes on the Earth 3D |
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Cool Stars |
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