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November 23, 2009 Free Spirit: Third Extrication Drive Ends With Wheel StallSpirit experienced a wheel stall with the right-rear wheel during the second step of a two-step drive on Sol 2092 (Saturday, Nov. 21). |
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November 21, 2009 Cassini Sends Back Images of Enceladus as Winter NearsNASA's Cassini spacecraft has sailed seamlessly through the Nov. 21 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus and started transmitting uncalibrated temperature data and images of the rippling terrain. |
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November 19, 2009 Before Darkness Falls: Cassini to Scan Enceladus on Winter's CuspNASA's Cassini spacecraft will fly by Saturn's moon Enceladus this weekend for a last peek at the intriguing "tiger stripes" before winter darkness blankets the area for several years. |
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November 19, 2009 Cassini's Big Sky: The View from the Center of Our Solar SystemWhen NASA's Cassini spacecraft began orbiting Saturn five years ago, a dozen highly-tuned science instruments set to work surveying, sniffing, analyzing and scrutinizing the Saturnian system. |
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November 18, 2009 Second Planned Extrication Drive is Straight Ahead AgainBecause the first extrication drive for Spirit, on Sol 2088 (Nov. 17), stopped as soon as it began due to an exceeded tilt limit, the plan for an extrication drive on Sol 2090 (Nov. 19) will essentially be a repeat of the first drive plan, but with improved rover attitude knowledge. |
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November 17, 2009 Tilt Parameters End First Extrication DriveThe preliminary results from the first extrication drive for Spirit on Sol 2088 (Nov. 17, 2009) indicate the rover stopped less than 1 second after it began, sensing more vehicle lateral tilt than permitted. |
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November 17, 2009 NASA and Microsoft Allow Earthlings to Become MartiansNASA and Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Wash., have collaborated to create a Web site for Internet users to advance their knowledge about Mars while having fun at the same time. |
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November 16, 2009 Team Prepares to Uplink Commands to SpiritTeam Prepares to Uplink Commands to Spirit. Today (Monday, Nov. 16), driving commands are being prepared to instruct Spirit to attempt to drive forward. |
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November 13, 2009 Rosetta Completes Final Earth FlybyOn its way to a 2014 rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, with JPL instruments on board, flew past Earth today to pick up energy. |
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November 13, 2009 Ghostly 'Spokes' Puff Out From Saturn's Ring'sMassive, bright clouds of tiny ice particles hover above the darkened rings of Saturn in an image captured by the Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 22, 2009, around the time of Saturn's equinox. |
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November 13, 2009 Dawn Enters Asteroid Belt -- For GoodNASA's Dawn spacecraft re-entered our solar system's asteroid belt today, Nov. 13, and this time it will stay there. |
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November 12, 2009 NASA to Begin Attempts to Free Sand-Trapped Mars RoverNASA will begin transmitting commands to its Mars exploration rover Spirit on Monday as part of an escape plan to free the venerable robot from its Martian sand trap. |
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November 12, 2009 Distal Rampart of Crater in Chryse PlanitiaAn example of a rampart crater is the ridge in this image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. |
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November 4, 2009 Frost-Covered Phoenix Lander Seen in Winter ImagesWinter images of NASA's Phoenix Lander showing the lander shrouded in dry-ice frost on Mars have been captured with the HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. |
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November 3, 2009 Successful Flight Through Enceladus PlumeCassini has started sending data back from its Nov. 2 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus. |
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Kepler Starts Hunt for Earth-Like Worlds |
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Herschel and Planck Launch |
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Parachute Test for Mars |
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Eyes on the Earth 3D |
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Cool Stars |
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