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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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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's robotic arm

November 19, 2008

Phoenix Mars Lander Team Wins Innovation Award

The University of Arizona has received an Arizona Governor's Innovator of the Year Award for leading NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander mission.

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artist concept of QuikScat

November 18, 2008

NASA's Quikscat Ocean-Observing Satellite Mission Honored

The Earth-observing satellite has been recognized for helping scientists better understand our home planet.

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artist concept of interplanetary internet

November 18, 2008

NASA Tests First Deep-Space Internet

NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet.

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Employees building the Mars Science Laboratory

November 18, 2008

NASA Invites Students to Name New Mars Rover

NASA is looking for the right stuff, or in this case, the right name for the next Mars rover.

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artist concept of Stardust-Next

November 18, 2008

Stardust Spacecraft Burns For Home

The NASA/JPL Stardust spacecraft fired its engines today to prepare for a Jan. 14, 2009, Earth flyby. Stardust is scheduled to fly past comet Tempel 1 in 2011.

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Byrd Glacier, Antarctica

November 17, 2008

JPL Instrument Observes Changes in Big Antarctic Glacier

JPL satellite data have helped scientists crack the case of a speeding Antarctic glacier. Understanding glacial flow processes can improve sea level forecasts.

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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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