Pluto-Bound New Horizons Provides New Look at Jupiter System

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Image of the planet Jupiter seen by the New Horizons spacecraft. A plume can be seen at the top of the planet. Credit: NASAJHUAPL
Image of the planet Jupiter seen by the New Horizons spacecraft. A plume can be seen at the top of the planet. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has provided new data on the Jupiter system, stunning scientists with never-before-seen perspectives of the giant planet's atmosphere, rings, moons and magnetosphere.


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Judge: Water delivery system harms Calif. salmon

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(AP) -- A federal judge ruled Friday that California's water systems threaten to push native, wild salmon into extinction but stopped short of ordering any immediate water cutbacks farmers said would have cost them millions ...

Phoenix Mars Lander Continues Tests With Rasp

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(PhysOrg.com) -- The team operating NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander plans to tell the lander today to do a second, larger test of using a motorized rasp to produce and gather shavings of frozen ground.

Deep Impact Films Earth as an Alien World

Jul 18, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has created a video of the moon transiting (passing in front of) Earth as seen from the spacecraft's point of view 31 million miles away. Scientists are using ...

3-D Views Posted From NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander

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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission has released stereo images of the Martian surface near the Phoenix lander. The images in the new 3-D Gallery combine views from the left and right "eyes" of the ...

The International Space Station, a test-bed for future space exploration

Jul 18, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
The Heads of the International Space Station (ISS) Agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States met today at ESA Headquarters in Paris, France, to review ISS cooperation.
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