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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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Jupiter and Io from Pioneer 10 2013/08/02
This is a parting shot of Jupiter and Io, taken December 5, 1973, by the ...
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Mysterious Umbriel 2013/02/28
Presenting a newly-processed version of Voyager 2's best images of Uranus' moon Umbriel. ...
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In Honor of JUICE, a New View of Europa 2012/05/07
To celebrate ESA's selection of the JUICE mission to Jupiter, Ted Stryk produced a new ...
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