2008 News Releases:
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8/20/08 - Most Black Holes Might Come in Only Small and Large
Black holes are sometimes huge cosmic beasts, billions of times the mass of our sun, and sometimes petite with just a few times the sun's mass.
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8/14/08 - Cassini Pinpoints Source of Jets on Saturn's Moon Enceladus
Cassini has pinpointed precisely where the icy jets erupt from the surface of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus.
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8/14/08 - Phoenix Microscope Takes First Image of Martian Dust Particle
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has taken the first-ever image of a single particle of Mars' ubiquitous dust, using its atomic force microscope.
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8/11/08 - Cassini Begins Transmitting Data From Enceladus Flyby
Shortly after 9:03 p.m. Pacific Time, the Cassini spacecraft began
sending data to Earth following a close flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
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8/9/08 - Soil Studies Continue at Site of Phoenix Mars Lander
Vibration of the screen above a laboratory oven on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander on Saturday got enough soil into the oven begin analysis of the sample.
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8/7/08 - Cassini Prepares to Swoop by Saturn's Geyser-Spewing Moon
Fractures, or "tiger stripes," where icy jets erupt on Saturn's
moon Enceladus will be the target of a close flyby by the Cassini
spacecraft on Monday, Aug. 11.
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8/5/08 - Phoenix Mars Team Opens Window on Scientific Process
Mission scientists today discussed their current investigation into percholate salts detected in Martian soil. The salts are neither good nor bad for life, said one scientist, but do make us reassess how we think about life on Mars.
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8/4/08 - NASA Spacecraft Analyzing Martian Soil Data
Scientists are analyzing results from soil samples delivered several weeks ago to science instruments on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander to understand the landing site's soil chemistry and mineralogy.
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7/31/08 - NASA Spacecraft Confirms Martian Water, Mission Extended
Laboratory tests aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander
have identified water in a soil sample.
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7/30/08 - NASA Confirms Liquid Lake on Saturn Moon
NASA scientists have concluded that at least one of the large lakes observed on Saturn's moon Titan contains liquid hydrocarbons, and have positively identified the presence of ethane.
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