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NASA Instrument Measures Winds on Titan to Aid Huygens Lander

On top the windswept summit of a Hawaiian volcano, a NASA instrument attached to the Japanese Subaru telescope measured distant winds raging on a strange world — Titan, the giant moon of Saturn — to ...
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NASA Instrument to Measure Temperature, Pressure, and Wind on Venus

DAVINCI will send a meter-diameter probe to brave the high temperatures and pressures near Venus’ surface to explore the atmosphere from above the clouds to near the surface of a terrain that may have ...
Princeton University

Princeton in space: IMAP instruments gather ‘first light’ data

A month before arriving at its destination, NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), led by Princeton's ...
The Santa Fe New Mexican

Here comes the sun: LANL designed instruments aboard NASA craft to study heliosphere, solar wind

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Call it sun block. Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have developed two tools to learn more about the ...
Study Finds on MSN

4 tiny NASA satellites capture photos of the sun like we’ve never seen it before

PUNCH Spacecraft Show First Complete Images Of Sun’s Corona And Solar Wind Together In A Nutshell Four suitcase-sized ...
Digital Trends

How NASA is building an instrument to withstand the brutal conditions of Venus

Within the next decade, NASA’s DAVINCI mission plans to send a descent sphere whistling through the atmosphere of Venus, collecting not only samples of its atmosphere but also high-resolution images ...

Novel Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe instrument delivers first-light data

Southwest Research Institute's novel Compact Dual Ion Composition Experiment (CoDICE) instrument aboard NASA's Interstellar ...