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EPOXI's flight and Science teams win NASA's Group Achievement Award
Congratulations to the EPOXI flight and science teams who received the NASA Group Achievement Award "in recognition of their highly successful campaign to observe transits and eclipses of giant transiting exoplanets."
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SPECIAL FEATURES
- EPOXI Newsletter
- A short update straight into your mailbox about what's happening in the EPOXI mission.
- DIXI Target
- With the Deep Impact spacecraft having successfully completed its observations of EPOCh targets, it continues on its way to comet Hartley 2, the target of the Deep Impact Extended Investigation (DIXI). What do we know about this comet?
GENERAL FEATURES
- Mission Status
- Very short updates about how the mission is going. Latest report: 2009-Jul-31
- EPOXI Team
- Visit with the many scientists, engineers, students, outreach specialists and others who are making the EPOXI projects a success!
MULTIMEDIA FEATURES
- ASP Podcast: Dr. Geoff Marcy, New Worlds and Yellowstone: How Common are Habitable Planets?
- Astronomers have now discovered more than 250 planets orbiting other stars. Hear the scientist who has discovered more planets than anyone else in the history of the world discuss what kinds of planets we have found so far, and what a new generation of telescopes might find in the future.
- ASP Podcast: Dr. David Morrison, Taking a Hit: Asteroid Impacts and Evolution
- Asteroids have hit the Earth many time in the past, and they will continue to hit in the future, whether we are prepared or not. Collisions with our planet over 4.5 billion years have profoundly influenced the evolution of life.
- ASP Podcast: Dr. Janice Voss, Searching for Earth-like Planets: NASA's Kepler Mission
- Dr. Voss, who has logged 49 days in space discusses her work in space and what it's like flying on the Shuttle as a scientist. She then talks about NASA's upcoming Kepler mission, which will use a telescope in space to search for transits.
- JPL Podcast: A Tale of Two Planets -- One Hot, One Windy
- "Narrator: A tale of two planets - one hot, one windy. I'm Jane Platt with a podcast from JPL - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California."
NEWS FEATURES
- 2008.11.18 - NASA Tests First Deep-Space Internet
- NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet....
- 2008.07.17 - NASA's Deep Impact Films Earth as an Alien World
- NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has created a video of the moon transiting (passing in front of) Earth as seen from the spacecraft's point of view 31 million miles away. Scientists are using the video to develop techniques...
- 2008.06.02 - Hunt for Superearth Planets Underway
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center scientist, Dr. Drake Deming, will present an update on the EPOXI mission on June 2, 2008 at the 212th American Astronomical Society in St. Louis, MO.
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RELATED SITES
- Deep Impact
- Live pages at UM.
- PlanetQuest
- Exoplanet Exploration.
- EPOXI
- NASA Portal site.
RELATED MULTIMEDIA
- Deep Impact Science Results
- Deep Impact science team members have been analysing the results since 2005. This animation summarizes some of the major results.
- Four Ways to Find a Planet
- How do you find something if you can't see it? Here are some of the techniques used by scientists.
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- Last Updated: Friday, 31-Jul-2009 17:21:25 EDT
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