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As winter approaches on Mars, NASA's Opportunity rover continues to inch
deeper into the stadium-sized crater dubbed "Endurance." On the other side
of the planet, the Spirit rover found an intriguing patch of rock outcrop
while preparing to climb up the "Columbia Hills" backward. This unusual
approach to driving is part of a creative plan to accommodate Spirit's
aging front wheel.
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NASA said Friday it is examining two candidates for the next mission in
the agency's New Frontiers Program. The "Moonrise" mission would drop
robotic landers into a crater at the south pole of the moon and return
samples to Earth. The other mission, called "Juno," would orbit Jupiter
from pole to pole for the first time to conduct an in-depth study of the
giant planet.
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The largest commercial communications satellite, designed to offer two-way
broadband Internet services across Canada and the United States, was
successfully heaved into space Saturday night by Europe's powerful Ariane
5 rocket.
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A faint star nearly 2,000 light-years away now has something in common
with our sun that no other single star has. Astronomers have directly
measured the mass of that star.
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Aboard the International Space Station, the Expedition 9 crew concentrated
on a host of scientific experiments and routine systems maintenance work
in a busy week in orbit. The crew spent part of its week stowing trash in
the Progress resupply craft docked to the far end of Zvezda. The unpiloted
Progress will detach from the Station by Russian flight controllers on
July 30 and deorbited to burn up in the Earth's atmosphere.
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