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Dragonfly to Titan: Nasa's bold mission to unlock life's ancient recipe
Titan has intrigued astronomers ever since it was discovered. The moon orbiting Saturn is replete with rivers, lakes and seas ...
NASA’s Dragonfly to unlock secrets of life on Titan: All you need to know about the mission exploring Saturn’s largest Moon
At minus 292 degrees Fahrenheit, Titan remains a chemical time capsule. NASA’s Dragonfly won’t search for life itself.
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NASA Engineers Revive Long-Dormant Thrusters on Voyager 1, the Farthest Spacecraft From Earth, in a ‘Miracle Save’
In the nick of time, NASA teams addressed clogging issues in the probe’s backup roll thrusters, before the only antenna ...
NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Hits a Geologic Goldmine at Jezero Crater Rim
NASA’s Perseverance rover is discovering a treasure trove of diverse ancient rocks on Jezero Crater’s rim, some possibly ...
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NASA resurrects Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft's thrusters after 20 years: 'These thrusters were considered dead'
NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe's backup thrusters — components that hadn't been ...
Europa Clipper Just Tested Its Life-Hunting Tech on Mars – Here’s What It Found
NASA's Europa Clipper, en route to Jupiter’s moon Europa, captured infrared images of Mars during a gravity-assist flyby to ...
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To dumbly go where no space budget has gone before
Reports that the White House may propose nearly a 50% cut to NASA’s Science Mission Directorate are both mind-boggling and, if true, nothing short of disastrous. To make those cuts happen — a ...
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'Yet another miracle save': NASA engineers complete nail-biting maneuver to resurrect Voyager 1's long-dead thrusters
More than 15 billion miles from home, Voyager 1's ailing thrusters were threatening to abort the craft's mission. Until NASA ...
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'ELVIS' has left the planet: PSU-built microscope arrives at International Space Station
The project started in 2014 when the principal investigator, Jay Nadeau, teamed up with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to develop a submersible ...