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in NASA, AmericaSpace, Space, Science, JPL, Juno, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space Exploration, Exploration, Jupiter, Solar System, ResearchJuno Spacecraft Peers Deep Into Jupiter’s Atmosphere Before Entering Safe Mode
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been busy orbiting Jupiter and providing fantastic new views of this giant world, something not possible since the previous Galileo mission. While almost flawless so far, the mission has had a few hiccups recently. Juno entered safe mode just shortly before its next close flyby of Jupiter this week, apparently the result of a […] More
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NASA’s MMS Fleet Ready for Mission to Study Magnetic Reconnection in Earth’s Magnetosphere
In a few weeks four identically-instrumented NASA spacecraft will launch on the space agency’s next mission, one which aims to study a natural process that occurs throughout the Universe, known as magnetic reconnection. NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission, or MMS, will for the first time observe the three-dimensional structure of this phenomenon by flying through areas where the […] More
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NASA Selects Four Potential Mars Landing Sites for InSight Mission
In late November, NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft is expected to thunder away from Earth on a one-way trip to study the thin atmosphere of Mars, but the next mission to land on the Red Planet’s surface will not launch until March 2016 at the earliest. In preparation for that mission, NASA announced today the selection of […] More
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AmericaSpace Video Feature: Arrival of MAVEN’s Atlas V
[youtube_video]http://youtu.be/xNJ8LSsRmn8[/youtube_video] Video courtesy of AmericaSpace / Wired4Space CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — United Launch Alliance’s ULA Mariner, a ship owned by Foss Marine, delivered the Atlas V 401 rocket which will be used to power NASA’s Mars Atmosphere Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission on its way to Mars. Launch is currently scheduled to take place on Nov. 18 […] More
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NASA Data Reveals Mega-Canyon under Greenland Ice Sheet
Data from a NASA airborne science mission reveals evidence of a large and previously unknown canyon hidden under a mile of Greenland ice. More
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ULA Mariner Delivers Atlas V Rocket for NASA’s MAVEN Mission to Mars
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — United Launch Alliance (ULA) and NASA greeted the Atlas V 401 launch vehicle that will be used to send NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft on its way to the Red Planet. Earlier this morning, technicians offloaded the rocket’s two stages from the ULA Mariner in preparation for a Nov. […] More
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Mars Probe Arrives at Kennedy Space Center
NASA’s next spacecraft bound for Mars—the $450 million MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) mission—completed its final Earth-bound journey yesterday, Friday, Aug. 2 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This is in preparation for the spacecraft’s interplanetary trek to the Red Planet, currently slated to take place this November atop a United Launch Alliance […] More
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Hubble Space Telescope Discovers New Moon Orbiting Neptune
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has discovered a previously unseen moon orbiting the planet Neptune, which is (now) the most distant world from our Sun. This moon is the 14th known satellite to circle the giant blue-green planet, which is characterized by some astronomers as an “ice giant.” Neptune became the most distant planet in […] More
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The Moon and Sun
Two or three times a year, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory observes the Moon traveling across the Sun, blocking its view. While this obscures solar observations for a short while, it offers the chance for an interesting view of the shadow of the Moon. The Moon’s crisp horizon can be seen up against the Sun, because […] More
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How to Target an Asteroid
Like many of his colleagues at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., Shyam Bhaskaran is working a lot with asteroids these days. And also like many of his colleagues, the deep space navigator devotes a great deal of time to crafting, and contemplating, computer-generated 3-D models of these intriguing nomads of the solar system. More
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NASA’S Hubble Sees a Horsehead of a Different Color
WASHINGTON — Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new, infrared light to mark the 23rd anniversary of the famous observatory’s launch aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990. More
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LRO Finds GRAIL’s Lunar Impact Sites
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has found the impacts made by its cousin(s), the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, or “GRAIL” spacecraft. Both of the mirror-image GRAIL spacecraft impacted the lunar surface Dec. 17, 2012, after it had completed its primary science mission. More
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