2004 Features :
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5/10/04 - Two Architectures Chosen for Terrestrial Planet Finder
Included in the nation's new vision for space is a plan for NASA to "conduct advanced telescope searches for Earth-like planets and habitable environments around other stars."
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4/26/04 - Black Magic or a Bag of Tricks?
In his office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Optics Engineer Larry Scherr sits before a buzzing computer, sketching geometrical shapes on a sheet of graph paper.
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4/5/04 - NASA Radar Aids High-Tech Digs
History can be hard to find. A forgotten letter molders in an attic. An ancient temple hides beneath jungle greenery. Even knowing that something is there doesn't necessarily make it easier to find - the classic needle in the haystack.
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4/1/04 - Here Comes the Sun
Little did the Beatles know their metaphor would be taken literally one day.
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3/31/04 - NASA's Deep Space Network Celebrates 40 Years of Service
"Station 14 - this is Stardust. We have a command load to send to the spacecraft. Can we verify your command system?"
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3/25/04 - Rover and Track
The engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, home of some of the best six-wheeled exo-atmospheric off-roaders anywhere, have really done it this time.
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3/19/04 - 'Fab Five' Make Rare Appearance in Night Sky
Like a busy urban family, planets rarely get together all at once. Later this month, however, the five so-called naked-eye planets - Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn - will reunite in the night sky, giving spectators a unique chance to see Earth's closest companions in one easy sitting.
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3/9/04 - Slip Sliding Away
On February 9, the wake up song for Opportunity was “Slip Sliding Away” by Simon and Garfunkel in honor of the experience the prior day when Opportunity first tried to scoot up the crater slope at Meridiani Planum.
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3/8/04 - Getting Down to Earth on Mars
What can scientists learn about Mars by studying Earth? How do the ocean planet and the red planet differ, and how are they alike? These are some of the questions posed by students during a recent field trip to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
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3/5/04 - Sheddings from Opportunity Lead Rover Fans on a "Bunny" Chase
Like a rabbit in a hat, the identity of an oddity that looks like "bunny ears" in a picture from Mars has eluded the science and engineering teams.
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