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NASA's long-lived rover Opportunity has returned an image of the Martian surface that is puzzling researchers.

Earlier today, NASA's Juno spacecraft executed a second Deep Space Maneuver.

Immediately after launch, RBSP entered a 60-day commissioning phase of operations, where all of the spacecrafts’ systems and instruments are ...

New 'Chorus' Recording By RBSP's EMFISIS Instrument

09.13.12 - Radio waves, recorded by RBSP's EMFISIS instrument, are at frequencies that are audible to the human ear and are emitted by the energetic particles in the Earth’s magnetosphere.
New RBSP Instrument Telemetry Provides 'Textbook' Excitement

09.12.12 - Just three days after launch, live data of the particles in the Van Allen radiation belts from the two RBSP spacecraft, provides full science data right out of the box.
Mars Rover Curiosity Arm Tests Nearly Complete

09.12.12 - NASA's Mars Curiosity team has almost finished robotic arm tests in preparation for the rover to touch and examine its first Martian rock.
NASA Observations Point to 'Dry Ice' Snowfall on Mars

09.11.12 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter data have given scientists the clearest evidence yet of carbon-dioxide snowfalls on Mars.
JPL to Stream Mars Curiosity Telecon and Lecture

09.11.12 - NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) tomorrow (Wednesday, Sept. 12), to provide a status update on the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater.

First Planets Found Around Sun-Like Stars in a Cluster

09.14.12 - NASA-funded astronomers have, for the first time, spotted planets orbiting sun-like stars in a crowded cluster of stars.
NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Reveals Geological Mystery

09.14.12 - NASA's long-lived rover Opportunity has returned an image of the Martian surface that is puzzling researchers.
Mars Rover Curiosity Arm Tests Nearly Complete

09.12.12 - NASA's Mars Curiosity team is almost finished robotic arm tests in preparation for the rover to touch and examine its first Martian rock.
NASA Orbiter Observations Point to 'Dry Ice' Snowfall on Mars

09.11.12 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) data have given scientists the clearest evidence yet of carbon dioxide snowfalls on Mars.

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NASA's monthly guide to watching the night sky.