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Cassini's Rear-View Image Of Saturn's Moon Titan Released |
| A day after entering orbit around Saturn, Cassini sped silently past Titan, imaging the moon's south polar region - Spaceflight Now |
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Next Space Race: Private Craft Prepare To Launch |
| A piloted rocket ship race to claim a $10 million Ansari X Prize purse for privately financed flight to the edge of space is heating up - CNN.com |
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Odd-Looking Moon Mimas Photographed By Cassini |
| Soon after orbital insertion, Cassini returned its best look yet at heavily cratered Mimas - Spaceflight Now |
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Natural Sunblock: Sun Dims In Strange Ways |
| When Venus crossed the Sun June 8, showing up as a clear black dot to the delight of millions of skywatchers around the world, astronomers noted something less obvious: The amount of sunlight reaching Earth dipped by 0.1 percent for a few hours - Space.com |
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Neutrino Mass Linked To Dark Energy |
| Researchers from the University of Washington have developed a theory which links together Dark Energy - the mysterious force that's accelerating the Universe - with the recent discovery that neutrinos have mass - Universe Today |
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NASA Issues Call For Moon, Mars And Beyond Technologies |
| NASA issued this week a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) focused on what's needed in human and robotic technology to put into high gear any Moon, Mars, and beyond space exploration - Space.com |
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Public Invited To Help Catalog Mars |
| NASA scientists are inviting the public to help them inspect images of Mars and find important geologic features hidden in the thousands of photographs in the agency's archives - Universe Today |
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Rock Traced From Moon Crater To Earth |
| Three times may be a charm in some realms, but it took four tremendous whacks to lift a certain rock off the Moon and shoot it serendipitously to Earth, scientists reported
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Search For Origins Programs Shortlisted |
| NASA has picked 9 ideas out of 26 proposals for further study as part of its Astronomical Search for Origins Program - Universe Today |
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Space Science Pioneer Van Allen Questions Human Spaceflight |
| A leading space scientist has called to question the validity of human spaceflight, suggesting that sending astronauts outward from Earth is outdated, too costly, and the science returned is trivial - Space.com
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