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Heliophysics Nugget: Gradient Sun
10.18.12 - Science and art techniques are often quite similar, indeed each area often helps improve techniques in the other. One such case is a technique known as a 'gradient filter' used to examine fine structures on the sun.
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Mars Soil Sample Delivered for Analysis Inside Rover
10.18.12 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has ingested its first solid sample into an analytical instrument inside the rover, a capability at the core of the two-year mission.
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Turmoil From Below, Battering From Above
10.17.12 - NASA scientists are observing Jupiter's appearance – its clouds, belts, hotspots, fireballs – change in unprecedented ways.
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What's Baking on Titan?
10.16.12 - NASA's Cassini spacecraft spots curious surface features on Saturn's largest moon, including a "hot-cross bun" and outlines of vast southern seas.
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NASA to Host Mars Curiosity Rover Teleconference Oct. 18
10.16.12 - NASA will host a media teleconference at noon PDT (3 p.m. EDT) on Thursday, Oct. 18, about the latest status of the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars.
News Releases
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NASA Statement On Alpha Centauri Planet Discovery
10.17.12 - The following is a statement about the European Southern Observatory's latest exoplanet discovery from NASA's Science Mission Directorate Associate Administrator, Dr. John Grunsfeld.
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Community College Scholars Selected to Design Rovers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
10.17.12 - Forty community college students from across the United States have been selected to travel to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., to participate in the 2012 National Community College Aerospace Scholars (CCAS) project.
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NASA to Host Mars Curiosity Rover Teleconference Oct. 18
10.16.12 - NASA will host a media teleconference at 3 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 18, about the latest status of the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars.
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NASA Symposium Marks 50 Years Of Solar System Exploration
10.16.12 - Media representatives are invited to attend a NASA History symposium about past, present and future solar system exploration.
Podcasts
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Audio and Video podcasts on NASA missions exploring our solar system.
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NASA's monthly guide to watching the night sky.