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NASA is considering adding a lander to upcoming Europa flyby mission
2015-09-10 15:38:31| Extremetech
If you're going all the way there, why not pay a visit to the surface too?
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Ball Aerospace's Ralph is Ready for Historic Pluto Flyby
2015-07-07 12:31:10| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
BOULDER, Colo. The Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. Ralph camera aboard the New Horizons mission will provide the closest images we have ever seen of Pluto when the spacecraft arrives at the dwarf planet on July 14. Ralph, the main "eyes" of New Horizon is designed to help scientists map the surface geology...
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MAVEN captures first images of Mars atmosphere, braces for close comet flyby
2014-10-15 14:28:01| Extremetech
NASA's MAVEN spacecraft, which arrived at Mars last month, has sent back its first images of the Red Planet's atmosphere as it was battered by a large solar storm. These images are the first of their kind, providing us with information about Mars' ozone layer, and the tenuous oxygen, carbon, and hydrogen coronas at the edge of Mars' atmosphere. These coronas can tell us what the conditions on Mars might've been like over the last four billion years, detailing how the planet went from being warm and wet (and perfectly suited to harboring life), to the cold, dry, dusty sphere that it is today.
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Everything you need to know for Friday's big asteroid flyby
2013-02-14 21:41:29| CNET News.com
Hours from now, Asteroid 2012 DA14 will make history when it becomes the biggest object ever witnessed getting this close to the Earth. [Read more]
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