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- Space sunflower may help snap pictures of planets
- NASA's Spitzer Telescope brings 360-degree view of galaxy to our fingertips
- NASA orbiter finds new gully channel on Mars
| Space sunflower may help snap pictures of planets Posted: 22 Mar 2014 06:49 AM PDT A spacecraft that looks like a giant sunflower might one day be used to acquire images of Earth-like rocky planets around nearby stars. The prototype deployable structure, called a starshade, is being developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. |
| NASA's Spitzer Telescope brings 360-degree view of galaxy to our fingertips Posted: 22 Mar 2014 06:45 AM PDT Touring the Milky Way now is as easy as clicking a button with NASA's new zoomable, 360-degree mosaic. The star-studded panorama of our galaxy is constructed from more than 2 million infrared snapshots taken over the past 10 years by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. |
| NASA orbiter finds new gully channel on Mars Posted: 22 Mar 2014 06:44 AM PDT A comparison of images taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in November 2010 and May 2013 reveal the formation of a new gully channel on a crater-wall slope in the southern highlands of Mars. |
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