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Artist's depiction of the spacecraft fully deployed on the surface of Mars.

December 1, 2008

NASA Finishes Listening for Phoenix Mars Lander

After nearly a month of daily checks to determine whether Martian NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander would be able to communicate again, the agency has stopped using its Mars orbiters to hail the lander and listen for its beep.

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artist concept of jets on Enceladus, Image copyright: Karl Kofoed

November 26, 2008

Enceladus Jets: Are They Wet or Just Wild?

Scientists continue to search for the cause of the geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus.

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artist concept of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

November 26, 2008

Public Presentation About Mars Orbiter's Images and Findings

Mars scientists will present dramatic images and key findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter at a free evening program in Pasadena on Thursday, Dec. 4, celebrating completion of the mission's first two-year science phase.

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artist concept of Juno

November 24, 2008

NASA Prepares for New Juno Mission to Jupiter

NASA is officially moving forward on a mission to conduct an unprecedented, in-depth study of Jupiter.

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artist concept of Dawn in space

November 20, 2008

Dawn Glides Into New Year

NASA's Dawn spacecraft shut down its ion propulsion system today as scheduled.

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artist concept of glacier on Mars

November 20, 2008

NASA Spacecraft Detects Buried Glaciers on Mars

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed vast Martian glaciers of water ice under protective blankets of rocky debris at much lower latitudes than any ice previously identified on the Red Planet.

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galaxies

November 20, 2008

JPL's Hubble Camera Chips In To Galactic Core Portrait

JPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 contributed to a new portrait of one of the universe's most brilliant star-making galaxies.

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artist concept of NuSTAR

November 20, 2008

Magazine Honors a Star of NuSTAR

Fiona Harrison of Caltech, principal investigator of the JPL-managed NuSTAR mission, is honored by U.S. News & World Report as one of "America's Best Leaders."

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map showing 4 possible landing sites for Mars Science Lab

November 19, 2008

Site List Narrows For NASA's Next Mars Landing

Four intriguing places on Mars have risen to the final round as NASA selects a landing site for its next Mars mission, the Mars Science Laboratory.

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November 19, 2008

NASA Plans Test of 'Electronic Nose' on International Space Station

NASA astronauts on Space Shuttle Endeavour's STS-126 mission will install an instrument on the International Space Station that can "smell" dangerous chemicals in the air.

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Phoenix on Mars

Recovery Efforts Continue with Phoenix

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pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies

JPL's Hubble Camera Keeps on Clicking

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Kepler being built

Kepler Spacecraft Baked and Ready for More Tests

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Endeavour crater

Mars Rover to Head Toward Bigger Crater

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