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September 3, 2010 Next Mars Rover Stretches Robotic ArmCuriosity, the Mars Science Laboratory rover that will be on Mars two years from now, has been flexing the robotic arm that spacecraft workers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory attached to the rover body in August 2010. |
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September 3, 2010 ATHLETE Rover Steps Up to Long Desert TrekThe ATHLETE rover is poised to go 40 kilometers in the Arizona desert as part of the 2010 Desert RATS test. |
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September 3, 2010 Missing Piece Inspires New Look at Mars PuzzleExperiments prompted by a 2008 surprise from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suggest that soil examined by NASA's Viking Mars landers in 1976 may have contained carbon-based chemical building blocks of life. |
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September 2, 2010 NASA Hurricane Researchers Eye Earl's EyeTwo advanced weather instruments from JPL are busy flying above Hurricane Earl, as NASA's field campaign to study how hurricanes form and intensify continues. |
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September 2, 2010 NASA Selects Investigations for First Sun Encounter MissionNASA has begun development of a mission to visit and study the sun closer than ever before. |
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September 2, 2010 Spitzer Finds a Flavorful Mix of AsteroidsNew research from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveals that asteroids somewhat near Earth, termed near-Earth objects, are a mixed bunch, with a surprisingly wide array of compositions. |
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September 1, 2010 NASA Images Dissect Hurricane EarlAs the U.S. East Coast prepares to duke it out with large and powerful Hurricane Earl, NASA satellites and instruments are busy gathering valuable information on the storm. |
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September 1, 2010 Herschel Finds Water in a Cosmic DesertHow did water end up around an old, dying star? The Herschel space observatory has new clues. |
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August 26, 2010 Tracing the Big Picture of Mars' AtmosphereOne of the instruments on a 2016 mission to orbit Mars will provide daily profiles of the changing structure of the planet's atmosphere. |
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August 26, 2010 NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Two Planets Transiting Same StarNASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered the first confirmed planetary system with more than one planet crossing in front of, or transiting, the same star. |
All 2010 releases
