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How the Sentinel Telescope Works |
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Sentinel is a space-based infrared (IR) survey mission to discover and catalog 90 percent of the asteroids larger than 140 meters in Earth’s region of the solar system. The mission should also discover a significant number of smaller asteroids down to a diameter of 30 meters. Sentinel will be launch
Date: 2012-06-28 17:34:57
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Juno Launch Towards Jupiter |
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An Atlas V rocket lofted the Juno spacecraft toward Jupiter from Space Launch Complex-41. The 4-ton Juno spacecraft will take five years to reach Jupiter on a mission to study its structure and decipher its history.
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Date: 2011-08-10 14:09:08
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Liquid Water on Mars - NASA |
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Highlights from a Sept. 28, 2015, briefing with NASA officials discussing the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars.
Date: 2015-09-28 16:54:34
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NASA: "Reach for the Stars" with will.i.am |
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For the first time in history, a recorded song has been beamed back to Earth from another planet. Students, special guests and news media gathered at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012, to hear "Reach for the Stars" by musician will.i.am after it wa...
Date: 2012-08-29 16:52:54
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Spacecraft Docks to ISS |
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Soyuz,a Russian spacecraft carrying a three-man crew blasted off Friday from a launch pad in the steppes of Kazakhstan, for the first time taking a shorter path to the International Space Station. Instead of the two-day approach maneuver used by Soyuz spacecraft in the past, this journey to the stat...
Date: 2013-03-31 16:29:29
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Space Station Commander Captures Unprecedented View of Comet |
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International Space Station Commander Dan Burbank captured spectacular imagery of Comet Lovejoy as seen from about 240 miles above the Earth's horizon on Wednesday, Dec. 21. Today Burbank described seeing the comet two nights ago as "the most amazing thing I have ever seen in space," in an intervie...
Date: 2011-12-27 22:10:53
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BREATHTAKING! |
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A star nursery 1,350 light years away toward the equatorial constellation of Orion has been captured for the first time by NASA. The Orion Nebula is a region that is similar to the region where the Solar System originated 4.5 billion years ago. Since the Orion nebula's newborn stars are being forme...
Date: 2022-09-13 17:57:44
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Martian Atmosphere -NASA |
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Mars is a cold and barren desert today, but scientists think that in the ancient past it was warm and wet. The loss of the early Martian atmosphere may have led to this dramatic change, and one of the prime suspects is the solar wind. Unlike Earth, Mars lacks a global magnetic field to deflect the s
Date: 2015-11-05 20:06:01
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