NASA anxious to hear from Mars rover as dust storm clears
NASA is anxious to hear from its dust-silenced Mars rover, Opportunity, as the planet's red skies clear.
NASA is anxious to hear from its dust-silenced Mars rover, Opportunity, as the planet's red skies clear.
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Embarking on a mission that scientists have been dreaming of since the Sputnik era, a NASA spacecraft hurtled Sunday toward the sun on a quest to unlock some of its mysteries by getting closer than any object sent before.
Space Exploration
Aug 12, 2018
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A NASA spacecraft zoomed toward the sun Sunday on an unprecedented quest to get closer to our star than anything ever sent before.
Space Exploration
Aug 12, 2018
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A red-hot voyage to the sun is going to bring us closer to our star than ever before.
Space Exploration
Aug 8, 2018
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NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine (second from left) tours the Orion test crew capsule for the Ascent Abort-2 (AA-2) test, with Orion AA-2 Crew Module Manager Dr. Jon Olansen, left, NASA Johnson Space Center Director Mark ...
Space Exploration
Aug 3, 2018
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Saturn's rings display their subtle colors in this view captured on Aug. 22, 2009, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The particles that make up the rings range in size from smaller than a grain of sand to as large as mountains, ...
Space Exploration
Apr 25, 2018
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Many of NASA's most iconic spacecraft towered over the engineers who built them: think Voyagers 1 and 2, Cassini or Galileo—all large machines that could measure up to a school bus.
Space Exploration
Apr 20, 2018
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe—designed, built and managed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory—will launch in summer 2018 on a historic mission to the sun.
Space Exploration
Mar 16, 2018
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Portable ground antenna stations could transform NASA's space communications capabilities. With access to undeveloped regions, the mobile systems could bolster the return of spacecraft science, instrument health and other ...
Space Exploration
Mar 15, 2018
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A research team led by Teruyuki Hirano of Tokyo Institute of Technology's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences has validated 15 exoplanets orbiting red dwarf systems. One of the brightest red dwarfs, K2-155 that is ...
Astronomy
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