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NASA uses orbiting observers and robotic landers to investigate the planets, moons, comets, and asteroids of our Solar System.
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Mars-Bound NASA Rover Carries Coin for Camera Checkup
At least one object in photos NASA's Curiosity rover will transmit from Mars later this year will look familiar to all Americans: a Lincoln penny sent as a camera reference.
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RHESSI Celebrates 10 Years and 40,000 X-Ray Flares
Ten years since its launch, RHESSI has observed more than 40,000 X-ray flares, helped craft a model of how solar eruptions form, and fueled additional serendipitous science papers on such things as the shape of the sun.
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NASA's Juno Spacecraft Refines its Path to Jupiter
NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft successfully refined its flight path Wednesday with the mission's first trajectory correction maneuver.
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NASA Mission Returns First Video From Moon's Far Side
A camera aboard one of NASA's twin GRAIL lunar spacecraft returned its first unique view of the far side of the moon.
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The Interstellar Material Beyond our Solar System
It's an alien environment out there: the material in the galactic wind doesn't look like the same stuff our solar system is made of.
News Releases
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NASA's Chandra Finds Milky Way's Black Hole Grazing on Asteroids
02.08.12 - The giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way may be vaporizing and devouring asteroids.
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NASA Spacecraft Returns First Video from Far Side Of The Moon
02.01.12 - A camera aboard one of NASA's twin Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) lunar spacecraft has returned its first unique view of the far side of the moon.
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NASA Hosts Briefing on New Observations of Interstellar Matter
01.26.12 - NASA will host a Science Update at 1 p.m. EST, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, to discuss new analysis from NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft of material from outside our solar system and the interstellar boundary region that surrounds our home in space.
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Montana Students Submit Winning Names for NASA Lunar Spacecraft
01.17.12 - Twin NASA spacecraft that achieved orbit around the moon New Year's Eve and New Year's Day have new names thanks to elementary students in Bozeman, Montana. Their winning entry, "Ebb and Flow," was selected as part of a nation-wide school contest that began in October 2011.
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