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June 24: NASA’s next Mars rover has completed the journey from its California birthplace to Florida in preparation for launch this fall. The Mars Science Laboratory rover, also known as Curiosity, arrived late Wednesday night at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center aboard an Air Force C-17 transport plane. |
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June 24: NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has discovered the best evidence |
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NASA’s next Mars rover has completed the journey from its California birthplace to Florida in preparation for launch this fall.
Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory mission’s rover, along with the mission’s descent stage, arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla., on June 22, 2011, aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane. Image Credit: NASA
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Space shuttle Endeavour and its six-astronaut crew sailed home for the final time, ending a 16-day journey of more than 6.5 million miles with a landing at 2:35 a.m. EDT on Wednesday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Space shuttle Endeavour makes its final landing at the Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility, completing a 16-day mission to the …
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The LCROSS mission operations team initiated power-up of the LCROSS science payload and saw this view of the moon. |
NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, created twin impacts on the moon’s surface early on October 9, 2009 in a search for water ice. Scientists will analyze data from the spacecraft’s instruments to assess whether water ice is … Read the rest of this article
September 9, 2009: Astronomers have declared NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope a fully rejuvenated observatory with the release of observations from four of its six operating science instruments. Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland unveiled the images today at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC.
“This marks a new beginning for Hubble,” said Ed Weiler, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. “The … Read the rest of this article
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, lifted off Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Launch Complex 41 on a first-of-a-kind mission to reveal the sun’s inner workings in unprecedented detail. The launch aboard an Atlas V rocket occurred at 10:23 a.m. EST.
The most technologically advanced of NASA’s heliophysics spacecraft, SDO will … Read the rest of this article
The Sun Now (Visible light)
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The Sun Now (H-Alpha light)
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Aurora Oval
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