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Reports from the 2009 AMASE Field Expedition

Now that it's high summer in the Arctic, it's time for research expeditions to swarm northward to explore icy landscapes as analogues to Mars and other far-off places.

Dawn in survey orbit at Ceres

Dawn Journal: Quiet Cruise

Today Dawn is 220 million kilometers (137 million miles) from the star at the solar system's center.

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Dunes in the Outback Red Center

Jani talks about the importance of understanding analogs we can easily visit on Earth to processes happening across the solar system.

Complex Canyons on Titan

Cassini RADAR continues to gaze at Titan

The Cassini spacecraft made its 59th flyby of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, on Friday, July 24, and in the last few hours we have received images from the RADAR instrument in SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) mode.

Same place, different lighting conditions

The Power of Lighting Conditions

For over four decades, the lunar science community has absorbed the information from the Apollo missions. Although many important questions were answered, many important new questions are waiting to be tackled -- which is the very essence of science and exploration.

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The Future of NASA

Earlier this week I mentioned that there is an ongoing evaluation of the future of human spaceflight at NASA.

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