NASA probe zips above surface of planet Mercury
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A car-sized NASA probe zoomed about  126 miles above the rocky, crater-scarred surface of Mercury on  Monday, becoming the first spacecraft since 1975 to fly past  the closest planet to the sun.
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The Cassini spacecraft will swoop near Saturn&#39;s mysterious moon Titan today, revealing features on the surface in the best detail yet.
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By Anna Davison, Santa Barbara News-Press, Calif.  Sep. 20--An antenna made in Carpinteria has been stretched out from a  spacecraft circling Mars, ready to begin searching for water below the surface  of the planet.
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Joining forces with JAXA The European Space Agency (ESA) has given the go ahead for a mission to explore Mercury, the inner-most planet of our solar system. The mission was formally adopted at the agency's Science Programme Committee (SPC) meeting last Friday.â¦
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Summary - (Oct 26, 2004) NASA&#39;s Cassini spacecraft will pass only 1,200 km (745 miles) above the surface of Titan today, delivering the most detailed pictures ever taken of the mysterious, methane covered moon.
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A privately funded spacecraft appeared to rocket past its target altitude more than 60 miles above California&#39;s high desert yesterday
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This summer, a science team set out on a two-week expedition of Earth's own little version of Jupiter's moon Europa -- the Borup Fiord Pass at Ellesmere Island, a place hidden high above the rest of the world in the Canadian High Arctic. The team, headed by Canadian geologists Drs.
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Scientists are sifting through their first new views of the planet Mercury in more than three decades thanks to images beamed home by NASA's MESSENGER probe.
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Findings in the Martian atmosphere by the European Mars Express spacecraft orbiting the red planet correspond to areas where the US Mars Odyssey spacecraft has detected possible water ice just beneath the surface.
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NASA's New Horizon's space probe was pointed toward Pluto and the frozen, sunless reaches of the solar system on a nine-year journey after getting a gravity boost Wednesday from Jupiter. The fastest spacecraft ever launched was within a million and a half miles of Jupiter early Wednesday, giving scientists a close-up look at the giant gaseous planet and its moons.
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Shuttle Atlantis docked with the   International Space Station on Monday, 218 miles above Earth,   and prepared to hand over a 35,000-pound (15,880-kg) truss for   attachment to the half-finished outpost.
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LOS ANGELES -- The NASA spacecraft Cassini, which is carrying a European Space Agency probe, cut off communications with controllers on Monday as it prepared to peer beneath a veil of smog shrouding Saturn&#39;s moon, Titan.
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In the first flyby of Mercury in 33 years, the NASA spacecraft captured thrilling new details about the little-known planet.
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New close-up pics of the Red Planet NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has delivered its first close-up snaps of the Martian surface, courtesy of the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE).â¦
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A NASA probe next week will become the first spacecraft in 33 years to fly by Mercury, a sojourn scientists hope will unlock the secrets of the small sun-baked planet.
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A wok-shaped science probe carrying a Colorado-built camera is on target for a Jan. 14 plunge to the surface of Saturn&#39;s enigmatic moon Titan after it successfully separated from the Cassini spacecraft Friday night.
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NASA researchers share the "goldmine of exciting data" sent by the Messenger probe from its flyby of Mercury.