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5/9/08 - Phoenix Flying True Enough to Skip One Scheduled Adjustment
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander continues on course for its May 25 arrival
at Mars.
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5/5/08 - NASA Kepler Mission Offers Opportunity to Send Names Into Space
Here's your chance to have your name on board the spacecraft that could discover the first known Earth-like planet beyond our solar system.
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4/30/08 - Ocean Survey Spacecraft Arrives at Launch Site
A spacecraft designed to continue a long-term survey of Earth's oceans has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., for final launch preparations.
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4/29/08 - NASA Spacecraft Tracks Raging Saturn Storm
Cassini watches as a powerful electrical storm rages on Saturn with lightning bolts 10,000 times more powerful than those found on Earth.
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4/23/08 - Shoulder Motor Balks on Opportunity Rover's Robotic Arm
A small motor in the robotic arm of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity that began stalling occasionally more than two years ago has become more troublesome recently.
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4/22/08 - JPL Invites Public to Open House
At this free, all-day event on May 3 and 4, visitors can watch 700-pound
robots glide under artificial stars in JPL's Robodome and get
an up-close view of full-scale models of Mars rovers.
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4/21/08 - Larger Pacific Climate Event Helps Current La Nina Linger
Boosted by the influence of a larger climate event in the Pacific, one of the strongest La Ninas in many years is slowly weakening but continues to blanket the Pacific Ocean near the equator.
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4/17/08 - Saturn Images Showcased in New York City
A selection of the best images from Saturn, its rings and moons will appear in an exhibition opening on April 26 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
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4/17/08 - New Atlases Use NASA Data to Chart Ocean Winds
Researchers have compiled years of data from NASA's QuikScat satellite to create three new atlases of ocean wind patterns around the globe.
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4/16/08 - NASA Statement on Student Asteroid Calculations
The Near-Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has not changed its current estimates for the very low probability (1 in 45,000) of an Earth impact by the asteroid Apophis in 2036.
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