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Cargo module mounted to space station for unloading
The International Space Station's big robot arm plucked a cargo-delivery module out of Discovery's payload bay and brought it aboard the outpost Monday.
 MODULE ATTACHED; MANAGEMENT TEAM UPDATE
MORNING STORY
ARCHIVED MISSION STATUS CENTER
NASA TV SCHEDULE REV. F (.pdf download)
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 HIGH DEFINITION TV DAY 3: NICOLE STOTT ABOARD STATION PLAY
HIGH DEFINITION TV DAY 3: UNITING STATION AND SHUTTLE PLAY
HIGH DEFINITION TV DAY 3: JOIN THE CREW DURING DOCKING PLAY
HIGH DEFINITION TV DAY 3: LIFE ON RENDEZVOUS DAY PLAY
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MONDAY NIGHT'S MISSION STATUS BRIEFING PLAY
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NARRATED OVERVIEW OF THE LEONARDO PAYLOAD PLAY
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ASTRONAUTS OPEN UP AND ENTER LEONARDO MODULE PLAY
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TIME-LAPSE OF LEONARDO MODULE'S INSTALLATION PLAY
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LEONARDO CARGO MODULE ATTACHED TO STATION PLAY
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MONDAY'S MISSION MANAGEMENT TEAM UPDATE PLAY
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Failure spoils China's string of successful launches
Breaking a 13-year streak of successful launches, a Chinese Long March rocket failed to deliver an Indonesian communications satellite to its planned orbit Monday.
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Discovery docks to space station on 25th birthday
Shuttle Discovery, marking the 25th anniversary of its maiden launch into orbit, successfully docked to the International Space Station on Sunday.
DOCKING STORY
EARLY LOOK SAYS FUEL TANK DID WELL
DOCKING PREVIEW STORY
ARCHIVED MISSION STATUS CENTER
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TIME-LAPSE OF DOCKING FROM CENTERLINE PLAY
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SHUTTLE FLIES OUT IN FRONT OF STATION PLAY
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DISCOVERY PERFORMS 360-DEGREE BACKFLIP PLAY
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BEAUTIFUL VIEWS OF DISCOVERY APPROACHING PLAY
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TIME-LAPSE VIEW FROM SHUTTLE DOCKING PORT PLAY
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STATION CAMERA CATCHES DISCOVERY'S "TI BURN" PLAY
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SUNDAY'S MISSION MANAGEMENT TEAM UPDATE PLAY
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NARRATED PREVIEW OF RENDEZVOUS AND DOCKING PLAY
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THE MOON SINKS BELOW TAIL OF DISCOVERY PLAY
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FLIGHT DAY 2 HIGHLIGHTS MOVIE PLAY
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NASA looking to solve medium-lift conundrum
Facing a lack of rocket options for medium-class robotic missions, NASA's launch czar said the agency will not need another medium-lift rocket until at least 2014, enough time for new boosters to prove themselves.
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Astronauts give Discovery full post-launch inspection
The Discovery astronauts conducted an inch-by-inch inspection of the most critical sections of the shuttle's heat shield Saturday, examining the ship's nose cap and wing leading edge panels with a laser scanner on the end of a 50-foot-boom attached to the shuttle's robot arm.
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MORNING STORY
ARCHIVED MISSION STATUS CENTER
NASA TV SCHEDULE REV. E (.pdf download)
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Discovery launches on
silver anniversary mission
A quarter-century after its maiden voyage, shuttle Discovery soared back into space at 11:59 p.m. EDT Friday for a new mission to deliver equipment and research gear to the International Space Station.
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ARCHIVED MISSION STATUS CENTER
MANAGERS CLEAR DISCOVERY FOR LAUNCH
NASA TV SCHEDULE REV. D (.pdf download)
LAUNCH WINDOWS CHART
ASCENT EVENTS TIMELINE
STS-128 FLIGHT PLAN
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COMMANDER RICK STURCKOW BOARDS DISCOVERY PLAY
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MISSION SPECIALIST PAT FORRESTER BOARDS DISCOVERY PLAY
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MISSION SPECIALIST JOSE HERNANDEZ BOARDS SHUTTLE PLAY
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MISSION SPECIALIST DANNY OLIVAS BOARDS DISCOVERY PLAY
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MISSION SPECIALIST CHRISTER FUGLESANG BOARDS PLAY
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MISSION SPECIALIST NICOLE STOTT BOARDS DISCOVERY PLAY
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ASTRONAUTS LEAVE CREW QUARTERS BUILDING PLAY | HI-DEF
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MEET SHUTTLE DISCOVERY'S ASTRONAUTS PLAY | HI-DEF
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Shuttle Discovery's launch pushed back to Friday night
NASA managers Thursday ordered another delay for launch of the shuttle Discovery, from early Friday morning to late Friday night, to give engineers additional time to make sure an 8-inch hydrogen valve in the orbiter's aft compartment will operate normally during fueling.
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NASA TV SCHEDULE REV. C (.pdf download)
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Ares rocket test postponed by power unit failure
Engineers scrubbed a critical rocket test in the high desert of Utah Thursday due to a last-second steering failure. The motor firing was to have tested the solid-fueled first stage of NASA's Ares 1 rocket. Officials hope to try again Tuesday.
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Discovery testing finds no problem with suspect valve
An 8-inch hydrogen valve and a suspect position sensor in the shuttle Discovery's engine compartment that appeared to malfunction during fueling Tuesday, forcing NASA to scrub an early Wednesday launch, performed normally during five open-close cycles Wednesday evening, officials said.
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EARLIER STORY
NASA TV SCHEDULE REV. B (.pdf download)
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Discovery could spend silver anniversary in orbit
If space shuttle Discovery launches this week, the flight will mark nearly 25 years to the day since the orbiter embarked on a career that has achieved some of the most historic U.S. space missions ever flown.
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Another scrub for space shuttle Discovery's launch
Engineers plan to test a suspect hydrogen fill-and-drain valve aboard the shuttle Discovery late Wednesday to determine if the valve or a sensor system that measures its position is to blame for readings that forced NASA to call off the shuttle's countdown Tuesday, delaying launch from early Wednesday until Friday at the earliest.
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NASA TV SCHEDULE REV. A (.pdf download)
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Managers mull options after moon mission malfunction
Officials are hurriedly seeking ways to save fuel on NASA's $79 million lunar impactor mission after a crisis Saturday caused the spacecraft to burn more than half of its remaining propellant.
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Historic South Korean satellite launch fails
Using a smattering of Russian and domestic technology, South Korea launched a small rocket toward space Tuesday, but the nine-minute flight apparently failed to deliver its payload to orbit.
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MONDAY'S UPDATE
EARLIER PREVIEW STORY
LAUNCH TIMELINE
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Weather scrubs Discovery's late-night launch
Florida's hard-to-predict weather threw the shuttle Discovery's crew a curve ball early Tuesday, worsening when forecasters predicted improvement, generating unexpected lightning and offshore storms. While conditions improved as the morning wore on, the launch team ran out of time and NASA managers were forced to order a 24-hour delay.
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IMAGES: STORMY WEATHER CAUSES SCRUB
NASA TV SCHEDULE REV. 0 (.pdf download)
COUNTDOWN SUMMARY
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SpaceX making steady progress on new rocket
SpaceX continues to plan to debut the new Falcon 9 rocket by the end of this year, but company engineers are still qualifying some parts of the vehicle for the rigors of launch.
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Ares managers say October test flight should go on
Managers in charge of an October flight test of NASA's new Ares rocket defended the merits of the $350 million launch Sunday, telling reporters the demo provides valuable experience for engineers, no matter what booster the agency uses to replace the retiring space shuttle.
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STORE: ARES 1-X PATCH
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Sunday review confirms Discovery's readiness to fly
NASA managers reviewed a few final technical issues Sunday and cleared Discovery for launch early Tuesday. The only issue going into the final hours of the countdown is the weather, with a 40 percent chance of afternoon thunderstorms Monday that could delay fueling.
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PRE-LAUNCH INTERVIEW WITH PAT FORRESTER PLAY
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PRE-LAUNCH INTERVIEW WITH JOSE HERNANDEZ PLAY
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PRE-LAUNCH INTERVIEW WITH DANNY OLIVAS PLAY
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Mission preview: Shuttling equipment to space station
After last-minute debate over external tank insulation, the shuttle Discovery is poised for launch early Tuesday on a three-spacewalk mission to deliver more than seven tons of supplies, experiment hardware and life-support gear to the International Space Station.
MISSION PREVIEW STORY
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Tick tock: Counting down to shuttle Discovery's blastoff
The shuttle Discovery's countdown is proceeding smoothly through its initial hours with no technical problems of any significance, officials said Saturday. The weather remains unchanged, with forecasters calling for a 70 percent chance of acceptable conditions at launch time Tuesday.
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Ariane 5 doubles up support to Asia-Pacific region
Two communications satellites built in America for Asian and Australian operators, paired together to share a ride into orbit, successfully got there aboard an Ariane 5 rocket Friday night.
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OUR ARIANE ARCHIVE
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Life's building block discovered in comet dust
NASA scientists have discovered glycine, a fundamental building block of life, in samples of comet Wild 2 returned by NASA's Stardust spacecraft.
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Shuttle Discovery launch scheduled for next Tuesday
The Flight Readiness Review formally set August 25 as the official launch date for shuttle Discovery. The astronauts flew to the Cape on Wednesday evening and the launch countdown should start Friday, leading to next Tuesday's liftoff at 1:36 a.m. EDT.
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Discovery's tank cleared for launch after foam debate
After a lengthy technical discussion, NASA managers decided Tuesday the shuttle Discovery's external tank can be safely flown as is, without the need for additional time-consuming inspections of its foam insulation, clearing the way for launch next week on a space station resupply mission.
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Beating swords into plough shares with Soviet Almaz
The previously top secret reusable reentry vehicle for the Soviet Almaz manned military space station will form the backbone of a major new U.S./Russian commercial venture to carry paying research crews on one week missions into Earth orbit by 2013.
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Dual Orion capsules studied for manned asteroid trips
A manned asteroid mission using two Orion spacecraft, docked nose-to-nose to form a 50-ton deep space vehicle, is being studied by Lockheed Martin Space Systems as an alternative to resumption of U.S. lunar landing flights.
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Photo gallery: Air Force's final Delta 2 rocket launch
The Delta 2 rocket made one last flight for the U.S. Air Force by launching the Global Positioning System 2R-21 satellite from Cape Canaveral's pad 17A on Monday.
MISSION PHOTO GALLERY
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Bittersweet launch ends several chapters of history
As the day dawned at Cape Canaveral on Monday, another Delta 2 rocket darted into the sky on a satellite deployment mission. But this successful launch was remarkably different. Instead of bringing joy, there was deep sadness from the finality bought by the flight.
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Suborbital test to aid Mars reentry system design
NASA's Wallops Flight Facility launched a major sounding rocket test of an inflatable ballutet planetary reentry system at 8:52 a.m. EDT Monday. A Black Brant rocket was used to fire the mushroom-shaped experiment vehicle high above Earth before falling back into the atmosphere.
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Ares passes milestone amid growing uncertainty
Engineers added the final piece to NASA's skyscraping Ares 1 test rocket overnight Thursday, topping off the 327-foot-tall demo booster as senior White House officials deliberate whether the agency's moonbound program is still viable.
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STORE: ARES 1-X PATCH
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Shuttle launch hinges on data from foam tests
NASA is pressing ahead with preparations to launch the shuttle Discovery Aug. 24 on a space station resupply mission, but Program Manager John Shannon said Thursday a final decision to proceed will depend on the results of last-minute testing this weekend to verify the integrity of external tank foam insulation.
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Japanese cargo ship fueled for space station voyage
Technicians finished loading propellant into a Japanese cargo ship this week, achieving a critical milestone before the first-of-a-kind spacecraft launches to the space station next month.
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Panel: Exploration plan doesn't fit in current budget
A presidential panel wrapping up a review of options for future U.S. manned space flight operations delivered a grim assessment Wednesday, showing NASA's current plan to retire the shuttle, finish the space station and return to the moon by the early 2020s is not even remotely feasible without a significant restoration of previously cut funding.
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Moon beckons commercial comeback for Beagle
Project managers for the British Beagle lander program are seeking redemption - on the moon - nearly six years after their spacecraft disappeared on Mars.
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Clouds discovered over tropics of Saturn's moon
In a case of persistent interplanetary detective work using powerful ground-based telescopes, a team of astronomers located and tracked the first bright but transient clouds over tropical latitudes on Saturn's moon Titan.
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Asian communications satellite launched by Proton
A Proton booster successfully guided an Asian communications satellite into orbit Tuesday, six months after a last-minute rocket switch to meet the customer's schedule demands.
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Meteorite found on Mars yields clues to planet's past
NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is investigating a metallic meteorite the size of a large watermelon that is providing researchers more details about the Red Planet's environmental history.
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Planet crash sends vaporized rock, lava flying
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found evidence of a high-speed collision between two burgeoning planets around a young star. Astronomers say that two rocky bodies, one as least as big as our moon and the other at least as big as Mercury, slammed into each other.
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Novel lunar impactor prepped for October demise
Nearly halfway through its crash course with the moon, NASA's lunar impact mission is being scrubbed of Earth water that could throw the probe off course and pollute potential ice on the moon.
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ARCHIVE: OUR LAUNCH COVERAGE
MOVIES: VIDEO COVERAGE | HI-DEF
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Structures leap from Saturn rings as equinox nears
A new moonlet and strange vertical structures are among the treasure trove of goodies revealed by the Cassini spacecraft as Saturn approaches equinox. The unique illumination geometry allows features to be discerned in unprecedented detail.
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Mars, methane, mysteries
Mars may not be as dormant as scientists once thought. The 2004 discovery of methane means that either there is life on Mars, or that volcanic activity continues to generate heat below the martian surface. Either outcome is big news for a planet once thought to be biologically and geologically inactive.
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Engineers continue to assess shuttle tank foam
The shuttle Discovery's crew strapped in for a dress-rehearsal countdown Friday, a milestone on the road to launch around Aug. 24 on a space station resupply mission. Engineers, meanwhile, are continuing a down-to-the-wire assessment of critical insulation on Discovery's external tank in the wake of foam losses during the shuttle Endeavour's launch last month.
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Kepler sees changing phases of giant planet
NASA's exoplanet seeking spacecraft, Kepler, has been confirmed to be up and running, and in doing so has captured the light of a gas giant orbiting a star over a thousand light years away.
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Volcanoes and lakes in new images of Titan
New ultra-high resolution radar images of the surface of Saturn's moon Titan showing the effects of icy cryovolcanoes are being presented this week at the International Astronomical Union's General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro.
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Curiosity rover assembled as cost impacts debated
Assembly and test of the Mars Science Laboratory rover, and its Sky Crane descent stage, are accelerating at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. toward launch on an Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral in late 2011.
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Committee debates options for space program's future
The committee deliberating America's future in human spaceflight is beginning to narrow down an expansive list of alternatives to be presented to the White House at the end of this month.
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Shuttle crew comes to town for practice countdown
Space shuttle Discovery's seven astronauts were welcomed at the Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday for upcoming emergency training exercises and a countdown dress rehearsal with the launch team.
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Discovery's rollout to launch pad turns into epic voyage
The space shuttle Discovery was hauled from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch pad Tuesday, slogging through the muddy pathway but eventually reaching its destination to ready the ship for blastoff by month's end.
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MISSION STATUS CENTER - live updates!
PICTURES: DISCOVERY ARRIVES AT PAD
PICTURES: DISCOVERY AT SUNRISE
PICTURES: THE MUDDY CRAWLERWAY
PICTURES: DISCOVERY LEAVES VAB
PREVIEW STORY
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South Korea set for first orbital launch attempt
South Korea's space agency has announced it will attempt to fly its first satellite launcher next week, pending final reviews and tests. Liftoff is tentatively set for around August 11.
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New Minotaur rocket set for debut launch in October
The Minotaur 4 rocket, a new military launcher derived from retired missile parts, will debut in October with an experimental Air Force mission that will track other satellites in space.
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Opportunity rover comes upon possible meteorite
The Mars rover Opportunity has eyed an odd-shaped, dark rock that could be a meteorite. Scientists will be testing the rock with the alpha particle X-ray spectrometer to get composition measurements and to confirm if indeed it is a meteorite.
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OTHER HEADLINES Additional stories today
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Craters, lava and tectonics scooped by Mars Express -- ESA's Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera has scooped impact craters, ancient lava flows and evidence of tectonic activity all near Ma'adim Vallis, one of the largest canyons on Mars.
Unveiling the true face
of Betelgeuse -- Using state of the art imaging techniques, astronomers have revealed a vast plume of gas and gigantic bubbles boiling on the surface of Orion's supergiant star Betelgeuse.
Cosmic dance strips stars from dwarf galaxies -- New computer simulations may provide an explanation for the origin of very small, faint galaxies, the so-called dwarf spheroidal galaxies.
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