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Artist's conception of OSIRIS-REx landing on an asteroid.

NASA's Asteroid Sample Return Mission Moves into Development

05.16.2013
OSIRIS-REx, NASA’s first mission to sample an asteroid, is moving ahead into development and testing in preparation for its launch in 2016.
Io with a volcanic plume

Your Volcanoes Are in the Wrong Place

04.04.2013
A new study of Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanically active world in the solar system, reveals that its volcanoes aren't concentrated where models predict they should be.
This illustration schematically shows where the Shallow Radar instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter detected flood channels that had been buried by lava flows in the Elysium Planitia region of Mars

NASA Helps See Buried Mars Flood Channels in 3-D

03.07.2013
Ground-penetrating radar makes it possible to reconstruct in 3-D ancient water channels hidden beneath the Martian surface.
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data visualization of topographic relief on luanr surface

Biggest basin

11/15/2011
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's LOLA instrument captured this portrait of the moon's south polar region. It features the Aitken Basin, the largest impact structure on the moon.
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