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) In this filed artist's illustration obtained from NASA on May 23, 2008, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is seen on the surface of Mars after landing. NASA scientists said November 10, 2008 that the Phoenix Mars lander has ceased to operate, because the diminished sunlight resulting from seasonal changes no longer powers the robot's solar arrays

This filed NASA handout obtained 01 August 2007 of an artist's concept depicts NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander a moment before its 2008 touchdown on the arctic plains of Mars. NASA scientists said November 10, 2008 that the Phoenix Mars lander has ceased to operate, because the diminished sunlight resulting from seasonal changes no longer powers the robot's solar arrays

NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is back in business. Just a couple of days after the orbiting observatory was brought back online, Hubble aimed its prime working camera, the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), at a particularly intriguing target, a pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies called Arp 147. The two galaxies happen to be oriented so that they appear to mark the number 10. The left-most galaxy, or the "one" in this image, is relatively undisturbed, apart from a smooth ring of starlight. It appears nearly edge-on to our line of sight. The right-most galaxy, the "zero" of the pair, exhibits a clumpy, blue ring of intense star formation

FILES)This August 27, 2008 image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory show a clear separation between dark and ordinary matter during the clash 5.7 billion light years from Earth. The US space agency has set a tentative date of May 12 for the liftoff of the Atlantis space shuttle, on a long-delayed service mission to the Hubble telescope, NASA announced.The original launch, scheduled for October, was put off after a unit that collects, formats and sends data back to the ground from Hubble failed. "Since then, engineers have been working to prepare a spare. They expect to be able to ship the spare, known as the Science Instrument Command and Data Handling System, to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in spring 2009," NASA said in a statement sent out late December 4, 2008

USE Pictured released on December 09, 2008 and taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope which has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. This is an important step along the trail of finding the chemical biotracers of extraterrestrial life, as we know it.The international team of astronomers used Hubble’s Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) to study infrared light emitted from the planet, which lies 63 light-years away.