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NASA’s SPHEREx Telescope Sees Menagerie of Brown Dwarfs

NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) space telescope ...
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Catches Stunning Martian Dawn

The captivating shapes of wind-carved crags called yardangs are revealed in this zoomed-in crop of a broader panorama ...
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NASA’s SunRISE Mission Targets No Earlier Than Mid-2027 Launch

Six satellites, each the size of a toaster oven, will operate as a single giant radio dish to study the Sun. NASA’s SunRISE (Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment) mission will launch no earlier ...
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Airborne Snow Observatory

The Airborne Snow Observatory is an Earth-based mission designed to collect data on the snow melt flowing out of major water basins in the western United States. The Airborne Snow Observatory is an ...
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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO, has studied the Red Planet's atmosphere and terrain from orbit since 2006 and also serves as a key data relay station for other Mars missions. The Mars ...
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Solar System

An overview of solar system missions and research at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...
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NASA’s Roman Team Snaps Test Coronagraph Image

“This observation confirms that the instrument can produce a focused image,” said Vanessa Bailey, a Roman Coronagraph Instrument scientist at NASA JPL. “It’s a very limited test that kicks off a ...
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Deep Space Network

The Deep Space Network is NASA’s international network of facilities used to communicate with faraway spacecraft exploring our solar system. NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) is an international array ...
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Explorer 4

Explorer 4 was designed to further investigate the radiation belt around Earth, discovered during the Explorer 1 and 3 missions. Explorer 4 was designed to further investigate the radiation belt ...
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The Roman Coronagraph Instrument

The Roman Coronagraph Instrument is a system of masks, prisms, detectors, filters, and self-flexing mirrors built to demonstrate new technologies for blocking out the glare of stars and directly ...