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Portraits of Saturn Moons Captured by Cassini
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 14, 2011
NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully completed its closest-ever pass over Saturn's moon Dione on Monday, Dec. 12, slaloming its way through the Saturn system on its way to tomorrow's close flyby of Titan. Cassini is expected to glide about 2,200 miles (3,600 kilometers) over the Titan surface on Dec. 13. In the selection of the raw images obtained during the Cassini Dione flyby, Dione is sometimes joined by other moons. Mimas appears just beyond the dark side of Dione in one view. In ... read more

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Cassini to make closest apporach to Dione
In an action-packed day and a half, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be making its closest swoop over the surface of Saturn's moon Dione and scrutinizing the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon ... more
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MOON DAILY

Peres promotes Israeli moon probe
Israeli space enthusiasts are taking part in an international moon-probe competition. President Shimon Peres cut the ribbon Thursday on Space IL, a nonprofit group that will compete for the in ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Solar Storms Could Sandblast the Moon
Solar storms and associated Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) can significantly erode the lunar surface according to a new set of computer simulations by NASA scientists. In addition to removing a surpr ... more
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MOON DAILY

Hundreds of NASA's moon rocks missing: audit
Researchers have sticky fingers when it comes to NASA's moon rocks and meteorites, and hundreds of samples have gone missing after being loaned out by the US space agency, an audit said Thursday. ... more
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What's That Sparkle in Cassini's Eye?
The moon Enceladus, one of the jewels of the Saturn system, sparkles peculiarly bright in new images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The images of the moon, the first ever taken of Ence ... more
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ECLIPSES

Total Eclipse of the Moon
Waking up before sunrise can be tough to do, especially on a weekend. On Saturday, Dec. 10th, you might be glad you did. A total eclipse of the Moon will be visible in the early morning skies of wes ... more
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MOON DAILY

Schafer Corp Signs Licensing Agreement with MoonDust Technologies
The Schafer Corporation has signed a Licensing and Development Agreement with MoonDust Technologies, LLC (MDT) of Tucson, AZ to give them exclusive, worldwide production and marketing rights for a u ... more
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China shuns calls to enter nuclear talks after US-Russia treaty lapses
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Trump urges new nuclear treaty after Russia agreement ends
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MARSDAILY

Russian experts baffled by erratic behavior of Mars probe
Russian Federal Space Agency experts are puzzled by the rising orbit of the Phobos-Grunt unmanned Mars probe, Roscosmos deputy head Vitaly Davydov said on Tuesday. The probe was launched on No ... more
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MARSDAILY

Mars departure window closing, will open later
The astronomical window for the Phobos-Grunt's mission to Mars has just about closed, believe space industry sources. The probe could still fly by the red planet, but the expedition to land on and t ... more
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MOON DAILY

Russia wants to focus on Moon if Mars mission fails
If Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mars mission fails the country's space agency may focus on Moon exploration, the deputy head of the Roscosmos agency said on Tuesday. The Mars probe was launched from ... more
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MARSDAILY

Last chance to send Russian Mars moon probe expires Monday
The launch window to send Russia's Phobos-Grunt unmanned spacecraft to a Mars moon will close on Monday, an airspace source told RIA Novosti. "The spacecraft has already unfolded its solar panels an ... more
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MOON DAILY

Flying over the three-dimensional Moon
Although the Moon is so far the only celestial body other than Earth on which a human being has ever walked, the topography of its surface has not been studied comprehensively. This is why NASA's Lu ... more
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DEEP IMPACT

Cosmic voyager has a layover in St. Louis
Last January, two amateur meteorite hunters dropped by Randy Korotev's office at Washington University in St. Louis to show him their latest purchase, a 17-kilogram pallasite meteorite found in 2006 ... more
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JOVIAN DREAMS

Scientists Find Evidence for Subsurface 'Great Lake' on Europa
In a finding of significance in the search for life beyond Earth, scientists have discovered what appears to be a body of liquid water the volume of the North American Great Lakes locked inside the ... more
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MOON DAILY

LRO Camera Team Releases High Resolution Global Topographic Map of Moon
The science team that oversees the imaging system on board NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has released the highest resolution near-global topographic map of the moon ever created. T ... more
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Experts warn of urgent need to address human reproduction risks in space
Indigenous Brazilians protest Amazon river dredging for grain exports
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MOON DAILY

Mystery of the Lunar Ionosphere
How can a world without air have an ionosphere? Somehow the Moon has done it. Lunar researchers have been struggling with the mystery for years, and they may have finally found a solution. But first ... more
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MARSDAILY

Contact with Russian Mars probe 'unlikely' - expert
The Phobos-Grunt unmanned spacecraft cannot be controlled at a low-Earth orbit, where it is currently stuck, because of its design features, a Russian space expert said on Saturday. The Mars p ... more
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MOON DAILY

Ancient Lunar Dynamo May Explain Magnetized Moon Rocks
The presence of magnetized rocks on the surface of the Moon, which has no global magnetic field, has been a mystery since the days of the Apollo program. Now a team of scientists has proposed a nove ... more
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MOON DAILY

Ancient Lunar Dynamo May Explain Magnetized Moon Rocks
The presence of magnetized rocks on the surface of the Moon, which has no global magnetic field, has been a mystery since the days of the Apollo program. Now a team of scientists has proposed a nove ... more
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MARSDAILY

Russian probe fails to set course to Mars
A robotic spacecraft to the Mars moon Phobos launched early on Wednesday has failed to reach a flying orbit after separation from the launch vehicle, the head of Russia's Federal Space Agency said. ... more
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SATURN DAILY

NASA's Cassini Makes a New Pass at Enceladus
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will acquire the first detailed radar images of Saturn's moon Enceladus during a flyby on Sunday, Nov. 6. These will be the first high-resolution radar observations made of ... more
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DEEP IMPACT

Large asteroid to pass by Earth Nov 8 but what if it did not
An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier will fly near Earth on Nov. 8. While there is no danger of it hitting the planet, a Purdue asteroid impact expert says a similar-sized object hitting Eart ... more
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Latest Cassini Images of Enceladus on View
Raw, unprocessed images from the successful Oct. 19 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus by NASA's Cassini spacecraft provide new views of the moon and the icy jets that burst from its southern polar re ... more
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