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Late Afternoon Shadows at Endeavour Crater on Mars

May 22, 2012

Dark Shadows on Mars: Scene from Durable NASA Rover

Late-afternoon shadows add punch to a false-color vista of Endeavour Crater on Mars from NASA's Opportunity rover.

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Artist's concept showing NASA's NuSTAR mission orbiting Earth.

May 22, 2012

NASA's NuSTAR Gearing up for Launch

Engineers are installing the "nose cone" around NASA's NuSTAR, a black hole hunter. The mission is scheduled to launch no earlier than June 13.

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Possible Disintegrating Planet

May 21, 2012

NASA's Kepler Detects Potential Evaporating Planet

A planet with a tail? NASA's Kepler mission has found evidence for what may be a disintegrating planet.

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Tiny Methone

May 21, 2012

Cassini Spots Tiny Moon, Begins to Tilt Orbit

NASA's Cassini spacecraft beams back closest images of Methone as it approaches Saturn's largest moon, Titan.

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A Star-Bursting Filament

May 17, 2012

Herschel Sees Intergalactic Bridge Aglow With Stars

The Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars.

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Simulated, edge-on view of our solar system

May 16, 2012

NASA Survey Counts Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

Observations from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to the best assessment yet of our solar system's population of potentially hazardous asteroids.

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The Galaxy Next Door

May 16, 2012

NASA Lends Galaxy Evolution Explorer to Caltech

NASA is lending the Galaxy Evolution Explorer to the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, where the spacecraft will continue its exploration of the cosmos.

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Annual Open House event with plenty of hands-on activities and opportunities to talk with scientists and engineers

May 15, 2012

JPL Invites all Earthlings to Annual Open House

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., invites the public to its annual Open House on Saturday, June 9, and Sunday, June 10, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Test Rover Aids Preparations in California for Curiosity Rover on Mars

May 11, 2012

Mojave Desert Tests Prepare for NASA Mars Roving

Engineers ran rover-mobility tests on California sand dunes this week in preparation for operating NASA's Curiosity rover after it lands in Mars' Gale Crater.

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Technicians prep the OCO-2 instrument for shipping at JPL.

May 10, 2012

NASA's New Carbon-Counting Instrument Leaves the Nest

NASA's first mission dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide moves a step closer to reality with the shipment of its JPL-built science instrument.

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