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Juno's Jupiter mission a quest to find 'recipe for planet-making'

Even for scientists versed in the grand scale of astronomy, it's never been easy to grasp the scope of Jupiter.

Jul 28, 2011 | 4.5 / 5 (4) | 10

Asteroid Juno Grabs the Spotlight

(PhysOrg.com) -- Toward the end of September, the sun will turn a spotlight on the asteroid Juno, giving that bulky lump of rock a rare featured cameo in the night sky. Those who get out to a dark, unpolluted ...

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Sep 17, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 0

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Twin NASA craft launched to study insides of moon

A pair of spacecraft rocketed toward the moon Saturday on the first mission dedicated to measuring lunar gravity and determining what's inside Earth's orbiting companion - all the way down to the core.

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Sep 10, 2011 | 4.6 / 5 (9) | 9

NASA launching twin moon probes to measure gravity

Four decades after landing men on the moon, NASA is returning to Earth's orbiting companion, this time with a set of robotic twins that will measure lunar gravity while chasing one another in circles.

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Sep 05, 2011 | 5 / 5 (4) | 3

NASA gives public new internet tool to explore the solar system

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is giving the public the power to journey through the solar system using a new interactive Web-based tool.

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Sep 04, 2011 | 5 / 5 (8) | 7

NASA launches spacecraft on 5-year trip to Jupiter

(AP) -- A sun-powered robotic explorer named Juno rocketed away Friday on a five-year journey to Jupiter, the solar system's most massive and ancient planet.

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Aug 05, 2011 | 4.8 / 5 (12) | 3

NASA going to asteroid, bringing back samples

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is going to send a spacecraft to an asteroid and bring back samples to Earth.

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May 25, 2011 | 4.7 / 5 (9) | 29 |

'The Year of the Solar System' to begin

To mark an unprecedented flurry of exploration which is about to begin, NASA announced yesterday that the coming year will be "The Year of the Solar System" (YSS).

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Oct 08, 2010 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0

WUSTL-led moon mission is finalist for NASA's next big space venture

Nearly 40 years after the Apollo astronauts first brought samples of the Moon to Earth for study, researchers from Washington University in St. Louis are leading an effort to return to the Moon for samples ...

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Jan 04, 2010 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

NASA Chooses Three Finalists for Future Space Science Mission to Venus, an Asteroid or the Moon

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has selected three proposals as candidates for the agency's next space venture to another celestial body in our solar system. The final project selected in mid-2011 may provide a better ...

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Dec 30, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 1

SwRI's integrated avionics control NASA's WISE spacecraft

NASA's latest spacecraft, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), launched Dec. 14, carries an ultra-sensitive infrared instrument that will take nearly 1.5 million images of the sky at four wavelengths and provide ...

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Dec 14, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

Twin Satellites Will Study Moon's Gravitational Pull

MIT will lead a $375-million mission to map the moon's interior and reconstruct its thermal history, NASA announced this week.

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Dec 14, 2007 | 3.3 / 5 (6) | 1

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