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NASA-funded Study Details One of Oldest Mars Meteorites Ever Found

Called Teghaza 001, the rock is from a piece of Mars that formed more than 4.1 billion years ago.
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NASA’s Voyager 1 Conserves Power, Resolves Brief Communications Pause

NASA’s Voyager team is celebrating two recent developments with the Voyager 1 spacecraft: In September, they successfully ...
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Sentinel-6B Satellite

Sentinel-6B is a joint mission led by NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) that will provide essential sea level and other ocean data after it launches in November 2025. The satellite will eventually ...
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Caltech Names Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman as NASA JPL Deputy

Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman has been named Caltech associate vice president and deputy director of NASA’s Jet ...
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NASA Study Refines Projections for Thwaites Glacier

Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier pictured in 2014. A new study using a computer model developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...
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NASA’s Perseverance Offers Clues to Protect Crews from Mars Dust

This 360-degree panorama from NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover shows Neretva Vallis, the dusty, long-dried river channel that ...
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Pedal to the Metal: NASA’s Psyche Heads Toward Asteroid Belt

On Sept. 28, the spacecraft began to use its propulsion system nearly continuously, pausing just once each week to check in ...
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NASA JPL Looks to Next 90 Years of Innovation, Exploration

Caltech graduate students and friends carry out their first rocket firing on Halloween, 1936, in a dry riverbed along which JPL would rise. Their work helped make possible missions such as ...
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Mariner 3

Mariner 3 was designed to fly by Mars and conduct other interplanetary experiments along the way. Mariner 3 was designed to fly by Mars and conduct other interplanetary experiments along the way.