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- NASA's Curiosity nearing first anniversary on Mars
- Sounding rocket to study active regions on the sun
- Astronomers discovery a graveyard for comets
| NASA's Curiosity nearing first anniversary on Mars Posted: 02 Aug 2013 12:16 PM PDT NASA's Curiosity rover will mark one year on Mars next week and has already achieved its main science goal of revealing ancient Mars could have supported life. The mobile laboratory also is guiding designs for future planetary missions. |
| Sounding rocket to study active regions on the sun Posted: 02 Aug 2013 06:51 AM PDT At NASA's White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, N.M., a sounding rocket is being readied for flight. Due to launch on Aug. 8, 2013, the VERIS rocket, short for Very high Resolution Imaging Spectrometer, will launch for a 15-minute trip carrying an instrument that can measure properties of the structures in the sun's upper atmosphere down to 145 miles across, some eight times clearer than any similar telescope currently in space. |
| Astronomers discovery a graveyard for comets Posted: 02 Aug 2013 05:02 AM PDT Astronomers have discovered a graveyard of comets. The researchers describe how some of these objects, inactive for millions of years, have returned to life leading them to name the group the 'Lazarus comets'. |
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