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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has spotted the "UFO Galaxy." NGC 2683 is a spiral galaxy seen almost edge-on, giving it the shape of a classic science fiction spaceship.
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This image reveals bouldery patches on the floor of the giant Hellas impact basin. The boulders are often crudely aligned. Maybe these boulders were deposited or sculpted by flowing ice in the form of glaciers.
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In preparation for the upcoming SpaceX demonstration flight, NASA astronaut Megan McArthur performed a crew equipment interface test March 28 in Florida.
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This view was obtained at a distance of approximately 324,000 miles (521,000 kilometers) from Hyperion and at a Sun-Hyperion-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 90 degrees.
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NASA Awards Contract for Procurement Services
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Growing pace of space activities calls for further development of space law
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Understanding how scientists determine the relative age of geologic units on the Moon is straightforward, most of the time. One simply follows the law of superposition; what is on top is younger, what is below is older.
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The low sun elevation in this Dawn framing camera (FC) image of Vesta enhances small topographic details near the rim of the large crater, part of which is visible in the bottom left of the image.
Updated: 2012-03-31 17:57:42
ATV-3 Power Connection Successful, Reboost Set
"Multi-national flight controllers successfully connected a backup power channel Saturday to the European Space Agency's "Edoardo Amaldi" Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) cargo ship, enabling electricity to flow from the International Space Station to the ATV to set the stage for a reboost of the station Saturday afternoon while avoiding an early undocking of the resupply craft."
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On the Planetary Society web site: Asteroid 2012 DA14 Discovery Enabled by Planetary Society Grant
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