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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.
Artist's rendition of OSIRIS-REx orbiting an asteroid.

NASA Spacecraft Will Visit Asteroid with New Name

05.01.2013
The asteroid that will be explored by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has a new name, thanks to a third-grade student in North Carolina.
Artist's rendition of the Maven satellite orbiting Mars

NASA Invites Public to Send Names And Messages to Mars

05.01.2013
Members of the public are invited to enter a haiku contest and to submit their names to be carried aboard the MAVEN spacecraft, which will orbit Mars.
Black and White image of the Salton Sea

New NASA Satellite Takes the Salton Sea's Temperature

04.22.2013
An image from an instrument aboard NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission or LDCM satellite may look like a typical black-and-white image of a dramatic landscape, but it tells a story of temperature
Aleksandra Bogunovic reaches across the instrument to affix the corners of a Multi-Layer Insulation blanket to the TIRS instrument.

For NASA to Build TIRS on Schedule, Every Day Counted

04.22.2013
From the very beginning it was a looming ticking countdown clock to get the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) instrument ready for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission launch.
Saturn's moon, Titan

Ice Cloud Heralds Fall at Titan's South Pole

04.11.2013
A new ice cloud seen at Titan's south pole by Cassini's Composite Infrared Spectrometer is the latest sign that the change of seasons is setting off radical changes in this moon's atmosphere.
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.
The Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer (NGIMS) instrument, shown here at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md

Final MAVEN Instrument Integrated into Spacecraft

04.03.2013
The Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer, which will measure the composition of Mars' upper atmosphere, has been integrated into NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft.
Artist's rendition of the Maven satellite orbiting Mars

Measuring Mars: The MAVEN Magnetometer

03.26.2013
The Goddard-built MAVEN magnetometer will be a sensitive tool investigating what remains of the Red Planet’s magnetic "shield" and interactions with solar wind.
Thumbnail of new LDCM image of Colorado

A Closer Look at LDCM's First Scene

03.21.2013
Turning on new satellite instruments is like opening new eyes. This week, the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) released its first images of Earth.
LRO LROC after view of GRAIL-A (Ebb) impact.

NASA's LRO Sees GRAIL's Explosive Farewell

03.19.2013
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) watched as the twin GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) spacecraft were intentionally crashed into a mountain near the moon's north pole.
This is a view from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft across the north rim of Cabeus crater. The leaping dust behavior may be observed on the moon in places like this where sunlit areas are close to shaded regions.

Leaping Lunar Dust

03.15.2013
Scientists with the Dynamic Response of the Environment At the Moon (DREAM) team find that electrically charged dust can bounce back and forth between sunlit areas around a shadowed lunar crater.
The dark hot spot in this false-color image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is a window deep into Jupiter's atmosphere.

'Hot Spots' Ride a Merry-Go-Round on Jupiter

03.14.2013
Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal new evidence that Jupiter's mysterious hot spots glide up and down on Rossby waves in the atmosphere like carousel horses on a merry-go-round.
Shiny spacecraft tended to by technicians in paper suits in a clean room.

Particles and Fields Package Integrated onto MAVEN

03.14.2013
The six-instrument Particles and Fields Package that will characterize the solar wind and ionosphere of Mars has been integrated onto NASA's MAVEN spacecraft. Goddard built the package's magnetometer.
the rocks of the

NASA Rover Finds Conditions Once Suited for Ancient Life on Mars

03.12.2013
An analysis of rock sample by the SAM and CheMin instruments on NASA's Curiosity rover shows that the Yellowknife Bay area of Mars was once wet and had conditions favorable for living microbes.
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.
Perry Gerakines measures how much far-ultraviolet light an ice sample absorbs using a spectrometer.

Goddard Lab Works at Extreme Edge of Cosmic Ice

02.27.2013
Behind locked doors, in a lab built like a bomb shelter, Goddard scientists make something ordinary yet truly alien: ice. Called amorphous ice, it's perfect for recreating some key chemistry of space.
Artist's concept of LRO in orbit.

LRO Featured in Special Issue of Planetary Journal

02.12.2013
Scientific observations made by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission are the subject of the latest special edition of the Journal of Geophysical Research Planets.
In the Multipurpose Test Facility clean room at Lockheed Martin, technicians installed the orbiter’s two solar arrays prior to a modal test.

NASA's MAVEN Mission Begins Environmental Testing

02.08.2013
NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft is assembled and is undergoing environmental testing at Lockheed Martin Space Systems facilities, near Denver, Colo.
This is an artist's concept of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft near asteroid 1999 RQ36.

New NASA Mission to Help Us Better Estimate Asteroid Impact Hazard

02.07.2013
When NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission studies an asteroid up close, one goal will be to measure the Yarkovsky effect -- one of the factors that can alter the path of a small object.
Photo of the scientists.

NASA scientists build first-ever wide-field X-ray imager

02.07.2013
Three NASA scientists teamed up to develop and demonstrate NASA's first wide-field-of-view soft X-ray camera for studying "charge exchange."
IMage of the Mona Lisa painting.

NASA Beams Mona Lisa to LRO at the Moon

01.17.2013
As part of the first demonstration of laser communication with a satellite at the moon, scientists beamed an image of the Mona Lisa to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).
From Titan: the crater Sinlap, which is a relatively 'fresh' crater,

Titan Gets a Dune "Makeover"

01.17.2013
Titan may look a lot younger than it really is because its craters are getting erased, according to the first quantitative estimate of how much Titan's weather affects the surface.
U.S. Astronaut on Moon

Apollo's Lunar Dust Data Being Restored

12.06.2012
Through the Lunar Data Project, readings from the dust detectors on Apollo 14 and 15 are being made available for the first time as a fully calibrated, digital dataset.
Scoop marks in the sand at 'Rocknest'

NASA Mars Rover Fully Analyzes First Soil Samples

12.03.2012
The Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) suite and other instruments on NASA's Mars Curiosity rover analyzed Martian soil for the first time, and found a complex chemistry there.
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