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Never-before-seen views of the ringed planet
03-02-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)The Cassini spacecraft, part of the joint NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens mission, has captured never-before-seen views of Saturn from perspectives high above and below the planet's rings.
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- NASA sees into the eye of a monster storm on Saturn
11-09-2006 · EurekAlert!
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has seen something never before seen on another planet -- a hurricane-like storm at Saturn's south pole with a well-developed eye, ringed by towering clouds.
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- MESSENGER set for historic Mercury flyby
01-11-2008 · EurekAlert!
NASA will return to Mercury for the first time in almost 33 years on Monday, Jan. 14, when the Johns Hopkins-managed MESSENGER spacecraft makes its first flyby of the Sun's closest neighbor, capturing images of large portions of the planet never before seen.
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- Mercury, As Never Seen Before: MESSENGER visits innermost planet
01-26-2008 · Science News Online
The first spacecraft to visit Mercury in 33 years imaged 25 percent of the crater-pocked surface that had never before been seen close-up.
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- Solar power at play
03-07-2007 · EurekAlert!
For the very first time, astronomers have witnessed the speeding up of an asteroid's rotation, and have shown that it is due to a theoretical effect predicted but never seen before. The asteroid's rotation period currently decreases by 1 millisecond every year, as a consequence of the heating of the asteroid's surface by the Sun. Eventually it may spin faster than any known asteroid in the solar system and even break apart.
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- Largest, brightest supernova ever seen may be long-sought pair-instability supernova
05-07-2007 · EurekAlert!
UC Berkeley astronomers Nathan Smith and David Pooley report the most luminous supernova ever detected, the explosion of a super-massive star in a galaxy 250 million light years away. The scientists estimate the star was 150 times larger than our sun, and that it exploded via an entirely new mechanism never before observed. Unlike other massive supernovas, this so-called pair instability supernova left behind no black hole.
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- APL-built spacecraft sees changes in Jupiter system
10-09-2007 · EurekAlert!
The voyage of NASA's Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft through the Jupiter system earlier this year provided a bird's-eye view of a dynamic planet that has changed since the last close-up looks by NASA spacecraft.
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- Light gives asteroids spin
03-09-2007 · EurekAlert!
Astronomers have observed an asteroid change the rate at which it spins for the first time, and shown that this is due to a theoretical effect predicted but never before seen.
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- NASA's New Mars Camera Gives Dramatic View Of Planet
09-30-2006 · ScienceDaily
Mars is ready for its close-up. The highest-resolution camera ever to orbit Mars is returning low-altitude images to Earth from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Rocks and surface features as small as armchairs are revealed in the first image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter since the spacecraft maneuvered into its final, low-altitude orbital path. The imaging of the red planet at this resolution heralds a new era in Mars exploration.
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- See Mercury's silhouette with SOHO
11-08-2006 · European Space Agency (ESA)
On Wednesday 8 November 2006, Mercury will pass directly between the Sun and the Earth. The innermost planet will be seen not as a bright point in the sky but as a tiny black dot, silhouetted against the brilliant surface of the Sun. Although this spectacle is not visible from Europe, the ESA-NASA solar satellite SOHO will be watching.
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- MESSENGER reveals Mercury in new detail
01-16-2008 · EurekAlert!
As MESSENGER approached Mercury on Jan. 14, the spacecraft's Narrow-Angle Camera on the Mercury Dual Imaging System instrument captured a view of the planet's rugged, cratered landscape illuminated obliquely by the Sun.
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