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Article: NASA Selects Future Projects to Study Mars and Mercury
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- May 4, 2009
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To: SCIENCE EDITORS
Contact: Dwayne Brown of NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1-202-
358-1726, dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov
WASHINGTON, May 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has selected
two science investigations that will aid in the interior examination
of Mars and probe the tenuous atmosphere of Mercury. The projects,
valued at approximately $38 million, also establish new alliances
with the European Space Agency, or ESA.
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"The selections will further advance our knowledge of these
exciting terrestrial planets," said Jim Green, director of NASA's
Planetary Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "The
international collaboration ...