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Nasa's Lro Discovers Earth's Pull Is 'massaging' Our Moon
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Nasa's Lro Discovers Earth's Pull Is 'massaging' Our Moon

In August, 2010, researchers using images from LRO's Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) reported the discovery of 14 cliffs known as "lobate scarps" on the moon's surface...

Mars Panorama from Curiosity Shows Petrified Sand Dunes
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Mars Panorama from Curiosity Shows Petrified Sand Dunes

Some of the dark sandstone in an area being explored by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows texture and inclined bedding structures characteristic of deposits that...

New Pluto Images from Nasa's New Horizons: It's Complicated
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New Pluto Images from Nasa's New Horizons: It's Complicated

New close-up images of Pluto from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft reveal a bewildering variety of surface features that have scientists reeling because of their...

What Happened to Early Mars' Atmosphere? New Study Eliminates One Theory
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What Happened to Early Mars' Atmosphere? New Study Eliminates One Theory

Scientists may be closer to solving the mystery of how Mars changed from a world with surface water billions of years ago to the arid Red Planet of today.

Comet Hitchhiker Would Take Tour of Small Bodies
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Comet Hitchhiker Would Take Tour of Small Bodies

Catching a ride from one solar system body to another isn't easy. You have to figure out how to land your spacecraft safely and then get it on its way to the next...

Nasa's New Horizons Team Selects Potential Kuiper Belt Flyby Target
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Nasa's New Horizons Team Selects Potential Kuiper Belt Flyby Target

This remote KBO was one of two identified as potential destinations and the one recommended to NASA by the New Horizons team. Although NASA has selected 2014 MU69...

Nine Real Nasa Technologies in 'the Martian'
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Nine Real Nasa Technologies in 'the Martian'

Mars has held a central place in human imagination and culture for millennia.

The Fingerprints of Sea Level Rise
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The Fingerprints of Sea Level Rise

When you fill a sink, the water rises at the same rate to the same height in every corner. That's not the way it works with our rising seas.

Warming Seas and Melting Ice Sheets
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Warming Seas and Melting Ice Sheets

Sea level rise is a natural consequence of the warming of our planet.

Dawn Sends Sharper Scenes from Ceres
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Dawn Sends Sharper Scenes from Ceres

The closest-yet views of Ceres, delivered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, show the small world's features in unprecedented detail, including Ceres' tall, conical mountain...

Cassini's Final Breathtaking Close Views of Dione
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Cassini's Final Breathtaking Close Views of Dione

A pockmarked, icy landscape looms beneath NASA's Cassini spacecraft in new images of Saturn's moon Dione taken during the mission's last close approach to the small...

Nasa: California Drought Causing Valley Land to Sink
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Nasa: California Drought Causing Valley Land to Sink

As Californians continue pumping groundwater in response to the historic drought, the California Department of Water Resources today released a new NASA report...

Cassini to Make Last Close Flyby of Saturn Moon Dione
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Cassini to Make Last Close Flyby of Saturn Moon Dione

NASA's Cassini spacecraft will zip past Saturn's moon Dione on Monday, Aug. 17—the final close flyby of this icy satellite during the spacecraft's long mission.

Rosetta Comet Outburst Captured
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Rosetta Comet Outburst Captured

The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft has been witnessing growing activity from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as the comet approaches perihelion (its...

Cruise Over Ceres in New Video
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Cruise Over Ceres in New Video

Striking 3-D detail highlights a towering mountain, the brightest spots and other features on dwarf planet Ceres in a new video from NASA's Dawn mission.

Extreme Access Flyer to Take Planetary Exploration Airborne
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Extreme Access Flyer to Take Planetary Exploration Airborne

Swamp Works engineers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida are inventing a flying robotic vehicle that can gather samples on other worlds in places inaccessible...

New Online Exploring Tools Bring NASA's Journey to Mars to New Generation
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New Online Exploring Tools Bring NASA's Journey to Mars to New Generation

On the three-year anniversary of the Mars landing of NASA's Curiosity rover, NASA is unveiling two new online tools that open the mysterious terrain of the Redjourney...

From a Million Miles Away, Nasa Camera Shows Moon Crossing Face of Earth
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From a Million Miles Away, Nasa Camera Shows Moon Crossing Face of Earth

A NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured a unique view of the moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last...

Nasa's New Horizons Team Finds Haze, Flowing Ice on Pluto
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Nasa's New Horizons Team Finds Haze, Flowing Ice on Pluto

Flowing ice and a surprising extended haze are among the newest discoveries from NASA's New Horizons mission, which reveal distant Pluto to be an icy world of wonders...

NASA's Curiosity Rover Inspects ­nusual Bedrock
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NASA's Curiosity Rover Inspects ­nusual Bedrock

Approaching the third anniversary of its landing on Mars, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has found a target unlike anything it has studied before—bedrock with surprisingly...
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