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Storms on Uranus and Neptune may only be surface features
Clouds of Neptune. Image Credit: NASA/JPL
Europe's new Earth monitoring probe takes first image
First raw image from Proba-V, acquired over France’s west coast on 15 May 2013. Image credit: ESA
Cassini creates the first global topographic map of Titan
Detail of the new topography map. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/JHUAPL/Cornell/Weizmann
NASA's sample return mission to an asteroid moves into development
Artist concept of OSIRIS-REx. Image credit: NASA Goddard/University of Arizona
Kepler enters safe mode after failure of orientation system
Artists composite image of Kepler. Image credit: NASA/ composite created by Wendy Stenzel
Dream Chaser completes major safety review
Illustration of Dream Chaser docked at the ISS. Credit: Sierra Nevada Corporation
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