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NASA Tracking Plane-Sized Asteroid Approaching the Earth Today
The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
U of I professor leads NASA mission sending satellites to space
NASA is getting ready to launch twin satellites for a study on the sun's energy, and a University of Iowa professor is ...
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe becomes first spacecraft to ‘touch’ the ...
Sixty years after NASA set the goal, and three years after its Parker Solar Probe launched, the spacecraft has become the first to “touch the sun.” The Parker Solar Probe has successfully ...
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We’ve Never Seen the Sun’s Top or Bottom. Solar Orbiter Will Change ...
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO — An earlier European-NASA collaboration that has been taking pictures of the sun since 1995. Wind — A NASA spacecraft observing heated gas of ...
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NASA is about to 'touch' the sun. Here's what you need to know. - AOL
NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched in 2018 and has completed 21 close flybys around the sun. However, its mission on Christmas Eve will be unlike any other. At 6:53 a.m. ET, ...