Space probe flies by Mars
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Europe's unmanned Rosetta space probe flies within 250km of Mars on its 10-year journey to land on a comet.
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London - An unexplained phenomenon akin to a space-borne carwash has boosted the performance of one of the two US rovers probing the surface of Mars, New Scientist magazine said on Tuesday.
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LA CANADA, Calif.  - A European-designed space  probe broke away from its NASA mothership on Friday on a plunge  toward the mysterious Saturn moon Titan, starting a journey  researchers hope will end with answers about one of the most  puzzling bodies in the solar system.
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The spacecraft Mars Global Surveyor has been in orbit at Mars for seven years and is still pulling off amazing feats of aerial imaging.
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Several crucial devices aboard NASA&#39;s Mars-bound Phoenix lander have passed in-flight testing.
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A European spacecraft executed a close flyby of Mars on Sunday, a crucial maneuver in its meandering, 10-year voyage through the solar system to make the first soft landing on a comet.
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When NASAâs Genesis solar-wind sample return capsule skyrockets from space next week and drops into the Utah Test and Training Range, that landmark in civilian space draws upon a once classified satellite snooping program.
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Â· Moscow 'space flight' to simulate mission to Mars Â· Britons seek places in cramped static cabin
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A spacecraft in solar orbit reached almost directly above   the south pole of the Sun last week, giving   scientists a rare glimpse of this unfamiliar territory.
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Nasa's Opportunity Mars rover is pictured from space by the recently arrived Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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IT PROMISES to be a scene worthy of a science fiction spectacular. A space probe carrying primordial material scooped from outer space starts to plunge towards our planet. But before it can strike, a helicopter flown by a Hollywood stunt ...
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DENVER, Colo. -- The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is one giant spacecraft, built to take&nbsp;unprecedented photos of the red planet. Engineers are in test time mode here at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, builder of the spacecraft, as the countdown ticks down&nbsp;for the probe's summer launch.
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A spacecraft orbiting Mars photographed one of NASA's rovers and its tracks on the surface, the space agency said Monday.
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The SMART-1 probe made it to within 3,100 miles of the moon yesterday morning, and will now begin spinning its way closer to the surface, the European Space Agency (ESA) said.
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The US space probe soared over Mercury on Monday on a mission to unlock the mysteries of the smallest planet of the solar system which was last visited in 1975, NASA said.
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NASA's Messenger probe will make its second pass by Venus on Tuesday, which will help guide the spacecraft on its circuitous journey to Mercury and give scientists a close-up look at Earth's cloud-shrouded neighbor.
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Jet Propulsion Lab -- NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, starting its third mission extension this week after seven years of orbiting Mars, is using an innovative technique to capture pictures even sharper than most of the more than 170,000 it has already produced.     One dramatic example from the spacecraft's Mars Orbiter Camera shows wheel tracks of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit and the rover itself...