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WISE Captures Key Images Of Comet Mission DestinationPasadena CA (JPL) Oct 06, 2010 NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, caught a glimpse of the comet that the agency's EPOXI mission will visit in November. The WISE observation will help the EPOXI team put together a large-scale picture of the comet, known as Hartley 2. "WISE's infrared vision provides data that complement what EPOXI will see with its visible-light and near-infrared instruments," said James Bauer, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "It's as if WISE can see an entire country, and ... read more |
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Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 04, 2010Dr. Jonathan Cirtain, an astrophysicist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and his science team have secured a proposal award of $8.2 million to help build parts for and test an instrument for the Solar Probe Plus flagship mission to directly sample the Sun's atmosphere. NASA recently announced the development of a mission to visit and study the Sun - up close and ... more  
Wash., D.C. (UPI) Oct 1, 2010 NASA new direction of sending astronauts to the asteroids or Mars doesn't mean a return to the moon is out of the question, the U.S. agency's deputy head says. NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver said the moon has a role to play in the new space exploration plan set by President Barack Obama and approved by Congress this week. "Lunar science and lunar exploration is alive and w ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 01, 2010Early on thursday, navigators and mission controllers for NASA's EPOXI mission watched their computer screens as 23.6 million kilometers (14.7 million miles) away, their spacecraft successfully performed its 20th trajectory correction maneuver. The maneuver refined the spacecraft's orbit, setting the stage for its flyby of comet Hartley 2 on Nov. 4. Time of closest approach to the comet wa ... more |
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Dawn Makes Steady ProgressPasadena CA (SPX) Oct 01, 2010 On the third anniversary of traveling through the solar system on its own since dispatching Dawn on a separate journey, Earth continues to orbit the sun in much the same way it has been. Meanwhile, the spacecraft is thrusting with its ion propulsion system, making steady progress in reshaping its orbit to rendezvous with Vesta in July 2011. In its three years of interplanetary travels, the spacecraft has thrust for a total of about 715 days, or 65% of the time (and about 0.000000014% of the time s ... read more |
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