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  • Io and Jupiter

    Scientists to Io: Your Volcanoes Are in the Wrong Place

    04.04.13 - Researchers discover on Io a mysterious eastward offset between where volcanoes are and where they are perdicted to be.

  • Sequence of seven images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

    Used Parachute on Mars Flaps in the Wind

    04.03.13 - Photos from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show how the parachute that helped NASA's Curiosity rover land on Mars last summer has subsequently changed its shape on the ground.

  • The Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer instrument, shown here at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

    Final MAVEN Instrument Integrated to Spacecraft

    04.03.13 - An instrument that will measure the composition of Mars' upper atmosphere has been integrated to NASA's MAVEN spacecraft.

  • Launch of second CHAMPS sounding rockets on Oct. 13,2011 from the Andoya Rocket Range in northern Norway.

    Measuring the Seeds of Noctilucent Clouds

    04.03.13 - In October 2011, a NASA-funded sounding rocket called CHAMPS flew up through noctilucent ice clouds to measure the meteoric smoke that seeds the clouds.

  • Titan

    NASA Team Investigates Complex Chemistry at Titan

    04.03.13 - A laboratory experiment at JPL simulating the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan suggests another region in the atmosphere that could brew up prebiotic materials.

  • TSI data from the SORCE mission, which marked 10 years of data acquisition on March 6, 2013, demonstrates the daily and cyclic variability of the Sun.

    SORCE: A Decade in the Sun

    03.29.13 - NASA's Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) satellite has been providing data on the sun's irradiance for 10 years.

  • Swift image of ISON

    NASA's Swift Sizes Up Comet ISON

    03.29.13 - The Swift satellite observed a comet that may become one of the most dazzling seen in decades when it rounds the sun later this year.

  • Mars with it's lumpy magnetic field illustrated next to a floating compass icon

    Measuring Mars: The MAVEN Magnetometer

    03.26.13 - The Goddard-built MAVEN magnetometer will be a sensitive tool investigating what remains of the Red Planet’s magnetic "shield" and interactions with solar wind.

  • Three of Saturn's moons

    Saturn is Like an Antiques Shop, Cassini Suggests

    03.27.13 - NASA's Cassini spacecraft analyzes the water ice and color distribution in the Saturn system, revealing gently worn, vintage goods.

  • The left-hand mosaic of the far side of the moon is based on data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. On the right is an image of the giant asteroid Vesta from data obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft. The insets show thin sections of the lunar sample 10069-13 and eucrite NWA1978.

    NASA Scientists Find Moon and Asteroids Share History

    03.25.13 - NASA and international researchers have discovered Earth's moon has more in common than previously thought with asteroids in our solar system.

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