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Stardust Celebrates Twelve Years With Rocket Burn
Feb. 9, 2011
NASA's Stardust-NExT mission team on Earth marked the spacecraft's 12th anniversary in space with a flight path correction maneuver.
Taurus XL Ready to Launch Glory Spacecraft
Feb. 9, 2011
The Glory spacecraft is ready to survey the world's atmosphere for aerosols while the Taurus Xl preps for its return to flight.
Surprise Hidden in Titan's Smog
Feb. 8, 2011
NASA’s “COSmIC” Simulator Helps Fingerprint Unknown ...
Feb. 8, 2011
Who are we? Where do we come from? These are questions that scientists hope to find clues to by better understanding the composition and evolution of ...
Yasi (South Pacific Ocean)
Feb. 8, 2011
Queensland, which is still trying to recover from earlier widespread flooding as a result of above-normal rainfall due to La Nina and previous ...
Snowy Snapshot from Space
Feb. 8, 2011
A massive winter storm affected 30 U.S. states last week. Satellite images from NASA provide a panorama of the fallen snow.
Proposed Mission to Jupiter System Achieves Milestone
Feb. 7, 2011
NASA-ESA Proposal to Study the Moons Europa and Ganymede Maps Joint Strategy.
LRO Sees Apollo 14's 'Close Call' With Crater Rim
Feb. 7, 2011
The crew collected rocks within 30 meters of the Cone Crater rim 40 years ago. Had they LRO's high-resolution images as their map, the view from that rim would have been spectacular.
Martian Landscape Actively Changing
Feb. 7, 2011
Sand dunes in a vast area of northern Mars long thought to be frozen in time are changing with both sudden and gradual motions, according to research using images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
First Ever STEREO Images of the Entire Sun
Feb. 7, 2011
On Feb. 6th, NASA's twin STEREO probes moved into position on opposite sides of the sun, and they are now beaming back uninterrupted images of the entire star—front and back.