The Galileo spacecraft made its closest pass yet over Jupiter's fiery moon Io, flying about 112 miles ( 180 kilometers ) above the moon's surface, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said.
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The Hubble Space Telescope captured spectacular images of Mars during the planet's close pass by Earth, including astonishingly detailed pictures of a polar ice cap and a giant canyon wall.
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"Caroline was passing me on the outside and it was a close pass, " said Lang, who would have made the team if she had placed third in the final.
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It was so faint that it had already passed perihelion about a month before its discovery, and only a close pass by the Earth had made it bright enough for discovery.
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Although they consider an asteroid flying 400, 000 miles from Earth as a really close pass, this one was actually a lot farther away than the moon, which is 238, 000 miles away.
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Astronomers reacted with jubilation Wednesday at new pictures of Mars taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, saying the planet's close pass to Earth enabled the Hubble to capture " quite spectacular " images.
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"I don't think one should be secret about these things, " said Brian G . Marsden, the director of the International Astronomical Union, who made the announcement about 1997XF11's close pass to Earth.
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Astronauts reacted with jubilation Wednesday at new pictures of Mars taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, saying the planet's close pass to Earth enabled the Hubble to capture " quite spectacular " images.
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Earlier, Miller had first fallen while performing her usual front-flip mount on the beam and then later stumbled during her closing pass during the floor exercise, drawing a penalty for stepping off the mat.
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On April 17, 1976 Helios 2 made its closest pass of the Sun, at a record heliocentric speed of 70 km / s; the highest measured temperature was 20 �C higher than for Helios 1.
