2007 News Releases:
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12/27/07 - Countdown to Launch of Jet Propulsion Lab Rose Parade Float
Volunteers 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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12/20/07 - 10,000 Earths' Worth of Fresh Dust Found Near Star Explosion
Astronomers 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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12/13/07 - NASA Sends Spacecraft on Mission to Comet Hartley 2
NASA has approved the retargeting of the Epoxi mission for a flyby of
comet Hartley 2 on Oct. 11, 2010.
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12/12/07 - Saturn's Rings May be Old Timers
New 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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12/12/07 - NASA Satellites Help Lift Cloud of Uncertainty on Climate Change
New 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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12/11/07 - Amazing Grace Team Receives Prestigious Award
A 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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12/11/07 - Mars Orbiter Examines 'Lace' and 'Lizard Skin' Terrain
SAN 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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12/11/07 - New NASA Mission to Reveal Moon's Internal Structure and Evolution
The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, or Grail, mission, will fly twin spacecraft in tandem orbits around the moon for several months to measure its gravity field in unprecedented detail.
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12/10/07 - Mars Rover Investigates Signs of Steamy Martian Past
SAN FRANCISCO - Researchers using NASA's twin Mars rovers are sorting out two possible origins for one of Spirit's most important discoveries, while also getting Spirit to a favorable spot for surviving the next Martian winter.
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12/10/07 - Voyager 2 Proves Solar System is Squashed
NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has followed its twin, Voyager 1, into the solar system's final frontier, a vast region at the edge of our solar system where the solar wind runs up against the thin gas between the stars.
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