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1. Wind Gust Gives Opportunity Rover a Power Boost

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   The Opportunity rover's solar panels got a cleaning sometime between Sol 2274 and 2299. Credit: NASA/JPL, collage and annotation by Stu Atkinson. Either some little Martians came by and gave the Opportunity ... Thursday, 15 July 2010

2. A Place in History

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   NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to take the images combined into this full 360-degree view of the rover's surroundings after a drive on the 2,220th Martian day, or ... Tuesday, 06 July 2010

3. SETI Chile Interview

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   Working on the internet provides the opportunity to meet people from all around the world, and I've gotten acquainted with Lourdes Cahuich, an astronomy and science enthusiast and translator from ... Tuesday, 06 July 2010

4. Celestial Fireworks

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   ... of their lives, giving an opportunity for detailed analyses of stellar life cycles. NGC 3603 also contains some of the most massive stars known. These huge stars live fast and die young, burning through ... Monday, 05 July 2010

5. Opportunity Rover Able to See More Detail of Endeavour Crater

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   Since the summer of 2008, when NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity finished two years of studying Victoria Crater, the rover's long-term destination has been the much larger Endeavour Crater to the ... Tuesday, 29 June 2010

6. Delays Likely for Final Two Shuttle Missions

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   ... mission, STS-133 Discovery, currently slated for September 16, could be delayed until October. As we reported yesterday, the first hint of Endeavour's delay came from the announcement of a new opportunity ... Wednesday, 09 June 2010

7. Attention Teachers and Students: Fly An Experiment on Final Shuttle Mission

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   ...  There is a unique and historic opportunity for students in grades 5-12 to fly an experiment on the final scheduled space shuttle mission, STS-134, through the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP). ... Tuesday, 08 June 2010

8. NASA plans 'Summer of Innovation'

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   ... been invited to the event at JPL. They will have the opportunity to speak directly with NASA astronauts, engineers and scientists and will participate in eight interactive and educational activities, such ... Wednesday, 02 June 2010

9. Detecting Clues For Alien Existence

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   ... would destroy/heavily degrade complex organic compounds. "The mission gives the University, and the Space Research Centre(SRC) team in particular, the opportunity to explore the chemistry and mineralogy ... Wednesday, 02 June 2010

10. Opportunity's Solar Panels Get Minor Cleaning

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    Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 01, 2010 - Opportunity has benefited from a small (about 10 percent) dust cleaning event on her solar arrays on or about Sol 2246 (May 19, 2010). This improves the available energy ... Monday, 31 May 2010

11. LightSail: Firming Up The Spacecraft Design

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    ... secondary payload launches can reach. Opportunities exist, but they're less frequent than other launches to low Earth orbit. It now appears that our earliest opportunity will come no sooner than the ... Monday, 31 May 2010

12. New space station crew will bid farewell to shuttle

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    ... would like to go with them," he said on the sidelines of Monday's press conference. "Twelve years ago I was here before I flew, and I know what it's like to be given this opportunity, and it's pretty ... Monday, 31 May 2010

13. The Cosmic Burp Of Dying Stars

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    ... to the next generation of innovators and cutting-edge researchers, and gives postgraduate researchers the opportunity to explain the real world implications of their research to a wide ranging audienc ... Sunday, 30 May 2010

14. Nearby Black Hole Is Feeble And Unpredictable

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    ... at their cores that are millions of times more massive than the Sun. At a distance of just under 3 million light years from Earth, Andromeda (also known as M31) is relatively close and provides an opportunity ... Sunday, 30 May 2010

15. Investors Scout Space Spin-Offs

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    ... who can support them with financing and target their business. At the forum they get the opportunity to present and discuss their business ideas and plans with venture capitalist and investors." Attracting ... Sunday, 30 May 2010

16. NASA Takes To Air With New 'Earth Venture' Research Projects

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    ... program for the Science Mission Directorate. The missions in this program provide an innovative approach to address Earth science research with periodic windows of opportunity to accommodate new scientific ... Sunday, 30 May 2010

17. Tickling The Feet Of Astronauts

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    ... "This experiment gives us the unique opportunity to test individuals before and after they are exposed to zero-gravity conditions and will provide insight into how this sensory system adapts." The Hypersole ... Thursday, 27 May 2010

18. Race is on for museums to host retired space shuttles

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    ... line to land the prestigious opportunity to show the awe-inspiring spacecraft. At least 20 proposals have been submitted so far and about half of those were "really strong," said Valerie Neal, curator ... Thursday, 27 May 2010

19. SETI Redux: Joining The Galactic Club

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    ... for technical civilizations are not very rare results of self-organizing biospheres on Earth-like planets around Sun-like stars. Biotically-mediated climatic cooling creates the opportunity for big-brained ... Monday, 24 May 2010

20. New Image Shows Damage On Silent Phoenix Mars Lander

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    ... by supporting the twin Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity. The Phoenix mission was led by Smith at the University of Arizona, with project management at JPL and development partnership at Lockheed Martin ... Monday, 24 May 2010