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LCROSS Impact Finds Water on the Moon

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20 hours ago | 4.9 / 5 (21) | 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- The argument that the moon is a dry, desolate place no longer holds water. Secrets the moon has been holding, for perhaps billions of years, are now being revealed to the delight of scientists ...

Rosetta bound for outer Solar System after final Earth swingby (w/ Video)

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Nov 13, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (6) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- This morning, mission controllers confirmed that ESA’s comet chaser Rosetta had swung by Earth at 8:45 CET as planned, skimming past our planet to pick up a gravitational boost for an epic ...

Rosetta sees a living planet

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17 hours ago | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Images and data taken just before closest approach were downloaded this morning, and they show the lights of North America in the night and a glowing Southern Hemisphere.

Distal Rampart of Crater in Chryse Planitia

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Nov 13, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Impact craters on Mars are kind of neat. Many of them look very different than impact craters seen on Earth's moon or Mercury. Fresh lunar and Mercurian craters have ejecta blankets that look ...

Atlantis Launch Countdown Begins Today

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(PhysOrg.com) -- At today's launch countdown status briefing held at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, managers reported space shuttle Atlantis, its payload and crew are ready for launch at 2:28 p.m. ...

Goddard Team Develops New Carriers for ISS

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In a partnership that exemplifies the One NASA theme, Goddard Space Flight Center engineers teamed up with the External Payloads Group at Johnson Space Center and the ISS Payload Ground Processing support ...

Students Send Microbe Experiment on Space Shuttle Atlantis

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17 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An experiment by college students that will study how microbes grow in microgravity is heading to orbit aboard space shuttle Atlantis.