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MAVEN Spared from Shutdown

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Congratulations LADEE!

LADEE safely entered lunar orbit on October 6 at 10:57 UTC. Congratulations to all involved!
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Asteroid Telescope First Light

Using a Shoemaker NEO Grant, a new telescope is operating in Illinois to do asteroid tracking
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Images from Space: Sun Oct 06 00:00:00 CDT 2013

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Voyager 1 revisited: Io and Europa transiting Jupiter 2013/01/22
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Pretty picture: Landsat view of southern Greenland 2012/11/13
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