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December 16, 2010
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IBEX Makes First-Ever Images Of Magnetotail Structures
San Antonio TX (SPX) Dec 15, 2010
Invisible to the naked eye, yet massive in structure around the Earth is the magnetosphere, the region of space around the planet that ebbs and flows in response to the million-mile-per-hour flow of charged particles continually blasting from the Sun. NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft, designed to image the invisible interactions occurring at the edge of the solar system, also captured images of magnetospheric structures and a dynamic event occurring in the magnetosphere as t ... read more

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Cassini Returns Images Of Bright Jets At Enceladus
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Cassini Finds Warm Cracks On Enceladus
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Cassini Back To Normal, Ready For Enceladus
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Cassini Finds Ethereal Atmosphere At Rhea
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Cassini Back To Normal, Ready For Enceladus
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Neptec Wins Canadian Space Agency Contract To Develop A New Generation Of Lunar Rovers
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Condition Of China's Lunar Probe To Determine Future Application
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Mission to far side of moon proposed
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NASA Mars Rover Images Honor Apollo 12
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Mining On The Moon Is A Not-So-Distant Possibility
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China Announces Success Of Chang'e-2 Lunar Probe Mission
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