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	July 25, 2014 NASA Mars Spacecraft Prepare for Close Comet Flyby NASA is taking steps to protect its Mars orbiters, while preserving opportunities to gather valuable science, as Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring nears Mars on Oct. 19. Read more

	July 24, 2014 Surface impressions of Rosetta's comet Images of Rosetta's target comet resolve structures as small as 330 feet (100 meters) across. Read more

	July 24, 2014 Parched West Is Using Up Underground Water: NASA/UCI A new study finds more than 75 percent of recent water loss from the Colorado River Basin came from underground sources, with grave implications for the West's water supply. Read more

	July 23, 2014 NEOWISE Spots a Comet That Looked Like an Asteroid Comet C/2013 UQ4 (Catalina) was originally thought to be an asteroid, but observations by NASA's NEOWISE spacecraft indicate that it's a comet. Read more

	July 23, 2014 NASA Seeks Proposals for Commercial Mars Data Relay Satellites NASA has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to investigate the possibility of using commercial Mars-orbiting satellites for telecommunications with future Mars missions. Read more

	July 23, 2014 The Most Precise Measurement of an Alien World's Size NASA's Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes have made the most precise measurement yet of the size of a planet beyond our solar system. Read more

	July 23, 2014 NASA Voyager Statement About Solar Wind Models NASA's Voyager Project Scientist Ed Stone responds to an alternate model for the interaction between the heliosphere and the interstellar medium. Read more

	July 18, 2014 OCO-2 Data to Lead Scientists Forward into the Past Scientists will use a virtual time machine to trace carbon dioxide observations from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 back to their sources. Read more

	July 17, 2014 A 10-Year Endeavor: NASA's Aura and Climate Change NASA's Aura satellite, celebrating its 10th anniversary this week, continues to help scientists understand how Earth's climate varies and how it will continue to change. Read more

	July 17, 2014 Voyager Project Scientist Ed Stone Honored Ed Stone, project scientist of NASA's Voyager mission since 1972 and a former JPL director, has received an American Astronautical Society lifetime achievement award. Read more