The gravity of Mars will change the Dawn spacecraft's path about the sun, helping send the probe toward its 2011 encounter with the asteroid Vesta.
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NASA Spacecraft Falling For Mars
Spirit Gets Energy Boost from Cleaner Solar Panels
A small but important uptick in electrical output from the solar panels on Spirit this month indicates a beneficial Martian wind has blown away some of the dust that has accumulated on the panels.
NASA Receives Shorty Twitter Award
NASA's activities in social networking media will be recognized Wednesday in New York, when the agency receives an award for its presence on the popular Web site Twitter.
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Celebrating the International Year of Astronomy
NASA's Great Observatories are celebrating the International Year of Astronomy.
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Stardust Logs A Decade Under The Stars
Saturday, Feb. 7, marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of NASA's well-traveled Stardust spacecraft.
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Antarctic Expedition Helped Prepare for Mars Project
Before Phoenix began digging into the arctic plain of Mars, scientists traveled to one of the coldest, driest places on Earth for soil-and-ice studies to aid in the analysis of Mars data.
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Cassini-Huygens Mission Status Report
The Cassini spacecraft will swap to a backup set of propulsion thrusters in mid-March due to degradation in the performance of the current set of thrusters.
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Spirit Resumes Driving
Spirit resumed driving Saturday after engineers gained confidence from diagnostic activities earlier in the week evaluating how well the rover senses its orientation.
News Releases
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NASA's Swift, Fermi Probe Fireworks From a Flaring Gamma-Ray Star
02.10.09 - Astronomers using NASA's Swift satellite and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are seeing frequent blasts from a stellar remnant 30,000 light-years away.
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NASA's Great Observatories Celebrate International Year of Astronomy
02.10.09 - Galileo first turned his telescope to the heavens in 1609, marking the dawn of modern astronomy.
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NASA Invites Public to Choose Hubble's Next Discovery
01.28.09 - NASA is giving everyone the opportunity to use the world's most celebrated telescope to explore the heavens and boldly look where the Hubble Space Telescope has never looked before.
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NASA Kepler Launch International Media Accreditation Ends Feb. 5
01.27.09 - The launch of NASA's Kepler telescope, the first mission capable of finding Earth-size and smaller planets around other stars, is scheduled for March 5 at 10:48 p.m. EST, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
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Media Resources
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Remarks at the Carey School of Business, The Johns Hopkins University
12.18.08 - I am pleased to be invited back to Johns Hopkins, and to the Carey School of Business, to speak with you today on the theme of "improving government processes."
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NASA Update
01.16.09 - Administrator Griffin addresses employees at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
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