December 27, 2005 The Year in Images: JPL 2005JPL missions and instruments capture unique and beautiful images 365 days a year. The following photo essay and gallery offer a glimpse at just a few of these views. |
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December 27, 2005 Cassini Caps Off Year With Titan FlybyThe Cassini spacecraft wrapped up this year's whirlwind tour of Saturn's many moons with a Titan rendezvous on Dec. 26. |
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December 21, 2005 NASA Prepares for Return of Interstellar CargoNASA's Stardust mission is nearing Earth after a 4.63 billion kilometer (2.88 billion mile) round-trip journey to return cometary and interstellar dust particles back to Earth. |
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December 20, 2005 NASA's Grace Finds Greenland Melting Faster, 'Sees' Sumatra QuakeIn the first direct, comprehensive mass survey of the entire Greenland ice sheet, scientists using data from the NASA/German Aerospace Center Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (Grace) have measured a significant decrease in the mass of the Greenland ice cap. Grace is a satellite mission that measures movement in Earth's mass. |
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December 20, 2005 Partial Ingredients for DNA and Protein Found Around StarNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered some of life's most basic ingredients in the dust swirling around a young star. |
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December 13, 2005 Spitzer Exposes Our Galaxy's Deepest SecretsAstronomers used Spitzer's heat-seeking infrared eyes to gaze at the dust-drenched plane of our galaxy. |
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December 12, 2005 Bump Into Mars TonightLook for Mars in the night sky on December 12, 2005, and wish Opportunity a Happy One Martian Year Anniversary! |
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December 12, 2005 Opportunity Celebrates One Mars YearSeemingly touched with a load of luck from the giddy-up, Opportunity has been galloping since she strutted off of her lander, some 670 sols ago. A mission planned for 90 days has turned into an adventure that's lasted nearly two Earth years! |
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December 6, 2005 Cassini's Photo Album From a Season of Icy MoonsWrapping up a phenomenally successful year of observing Saturn's icy moons, the Cassini mission is releasing a flood of new views of the moons Enceladus, Dione, Rhea, Hyperion and Iapetus. |
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December 6, 2005 NASA's Cassini Images Reveal Spectacular Evidence of an Active MoonJets of fine, icy particles streaming from Saturn's moon Enceladus were captured in recent images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. |
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December 5, 2005 NASA's Mars Rovers Continue to Explore and AmazeNASA's durable twin Mars rovers have successfully explored the surface of the mysterious red planet for a full Martian year (687 Earth days). |
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December 2, 2005 Learn About Spitzer and Its Cosmically Infrared WorldNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is bringing new light - infrared light - to the study of our dark and mysterious universe. |
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December 2, 2005 Mars Express Radar Instrument Reveals Martian Subsurface
A U.S.-Italian radar instrument aboard the European Space Agency's Mars Express has peered deep below the surface. Early results from the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding reveal buried craters and reservoirs of ice. The top image shows radar data from the subsurface. The lower image shows the location on a topographic map of the area. (Dec. 2) |
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November 30, 2005 America and Europe Partner to Study Titan and MarsResults from the collaborations between NASA and the European Space Agency on two missions were presented today at an European Space Agency briefing from Paris. The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft has pinpointed where a probe landed on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan (image above) and the Mars Express spacecraft has seen through surface layers on Mars. |
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November 29, 2005 NASA Rover Helps Reveal Possible Secrets of Martian LifeLife may have had a tough time getting started in the ancient environment that left its mark in the Martian rock layers examined by NASA's Opportunity rover. |
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