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Amid Turmoil, NASA's Hopes for Moon Launch Fade
In January, President Obama proposed canceling the troubled moon program known as Constellation, and last week a key Senate committee voted to kill it. This prompted the L.A. Times to speculate that NASA is no longer "shooting for the stars."
In other space news, astronomers reported receiving the first data from a new satellite, called the Solar Dynamics Observator, designed to help better understand the sources of solar magnetic storms.
And scientists have observed, via space probe images, that the lakes of southern Titan are shrinking, suggesting some similaries with Earth phenomena. Except the lakes on Saturn's moon are made of liquid methane, with a temperature close to absolute zero.
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