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2001
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 12/21/2001
Uranus 'Loses' a Moon: The 'New' Official Moon Count of the Solar System
All-Terrain Rovers may Scale Mars' Cliffs
NASA Scientist Finds Some Meteorites Not Sugar-Free
NASA Bids Farewell to the Successful Deep Space 1 Mission
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 12/14/2001
So Long to 'The Little Spacecraft that Could'
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 12/7/2001
Laser Altimeter Provides First Measurements of Seasonal Snow Depth on Mars
What Makes Europa Pink?
Deep Impact and the Mass Extinction of Species 65 Million Years Ago
Genesis Spacecraft Begins Mission to Collect Samples of the Sun
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 11/30/2001
Mars Was Once All Wet
Ocean Inside Jupiter's Moon Callisto May Have Cushioned Big Impact
UA Student Discovers Evidence for 'Wandering' Poles, Convergence Zones on Jupiter's Moon Europa
The Terrible Twos: What Might Happen If Our Sun Had a Twin
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 11/26/2001
Sunlight May Nudge Asteroids Toward Earth
Europe Heads for Mars
Evidence of Martian Life Dealt Critical Blow
Mars Orbiter Camera's 100,000th Image
NASA Spacecraft to Hunt for Elusive Gravity Ripples
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 11/16/2001
Genesis Gets to the Point
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 11/9/2001
All in the Family: Scientists Find Mother and Daughter Asteroids
Europa's Ice Crust Is Deeper Than 3 Kilometers, UA Scientists Find
Volcanoes Still Active on Mars? New Evidence for Ongoing Volcanism and Water Release
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 11/2/2001
NASA Bulldozer Could Get the Scoop on Mars
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 10/26/2001
Observations Reveal Curiosities on the Surface of Asteroid Ceres
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 10/19/2001
4th Anniversary Celebration for Huygens Team
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 10/12/2001
Lunar Soil Yields Evidence about Sun's Dynamic Workings
Ulysses Reaches the Sun's North Pole
Ulysses Sees the Sun Begin to Quiet Down
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 10/5/2001
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 9/28/2001
A Collision Worth a Thousand Boulders
Listening for an Ocean on Europa
NASA Spacecraft Captures Best-Ever View of Comet's Core
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 9/21/2001
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 9/14/2001
What Lurks in the Outer Solar System?
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 9/7/2001
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 8/31/2001
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 8/24/2001
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 8/17/2001
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 8/10/2001
Genesis Successfully Launched: Spacecraft Riding High to Catch Some Rays
Ulysses Spacecraft Observes Surprising Reach of Solar Activity
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 8/3/2001
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 7/27/2001
President Bush Marks Viking's Silver Anniversary to the Red Planet
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 7/20/2001
NASA Celebrates 25th Anniversary of Mars Landing
Seventy-Day Jupiter Movie Pulls Patterns Out of Chaos
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 7/13/2001
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 7/6/2001
Kuiper Belt Object Found Possibly as Large as Pluto's Moon
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 6/29/2001
European Space Agency and NASA Set New Cassini-Huygens Plan
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 6/22/2001
Where There's Soup, There's Life
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 6/15/2001
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 6/8/2001
A Change of Seasons on Saturn
Pioneer 10 Update
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 6/1/2001
Jupiter Particles' Escape Route Found
Crescents Slice the Darkness in "Farewell Jupiter" Picture by Cassini
Galileo Succeeds in its Closest Flyby of a Jovian Moon
Hydrated Salt Minerals on Ganymede's Surface: Evidence of an Ocean Below
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 5/25/2001
Subaru Discovers Small Objects in Outer Solar System
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 5/18/2001
In Coming Apart, Comet LINEAR Exposes its Deepest Secrets
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 5/11/2001
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 5/4/2001
NASA Establishes Contact with Famed Pioneer 10 Spacecraft
NASA Spacecraft Completed a 40-day Period of Data Collection
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 4/27/2001
Hubble Birthday Bash: 11 Candles, 100,000 Pictures
Earth Day Portrait is First One Snapped by Mars Odyssey
A Conversation with Dr. Ed Stone
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 4/20/2001
What Medieval Witnesses Saw Was Not Big Lunar Impact, Grad Student Says
Scientists Watch Dark Side of the Moon to Monitor Earth's Climate
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 4/13/2001
Giotto's Heritage: The Past and Future of Comet Exploration
NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey Spacecraft Is on Its Way to Mars
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 4/6/2001
MGS Image Gallery Now Contains More than 67,000 Images
Ulysses Observes the Sun at Solar Maximum
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 3/30/2001
Free-Floating Planets Confirmed
Two Spacecraft See New Plume Activity on Jovian Moom Io
Jupiter Radiation Belts Harsher than Expected
Jupiter Radiation Belts Harsher Than Expected
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 3/23/2001
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 3/16/2001
A Night to Remember: The Giotto Flyby of Halley's Comet
Free Lectures Will Describe NASA's Double-Teaming of Jupiter
March 16th Marks 75th Anniversary of First Liquid Fueled Rocket Launch
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 3/9/2001
Postcards from Jupiter: New Aurora Details Seen
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 3/2/2001
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 2/23/2001
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 2/16/2001
NEAR Shoemaker Ready to Gather Data on Surface of Eros
NEAR Shoemaker's Historic Landing on Eros Exceeds Science, Engineering Expectations
NEAR Shoemaker's Mission Extended by Ten Days
JPL Navigators Guide NEAR to Historic Landing on Asteroid Eros
NEAR Shoemaker Still Talking from Surface of Eros
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 2/9/2001
Volcanoes and Auroras Glow in Eclipse Movie of Jupiter's Moon Io
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 2/2/2001
Fifteenth Anniversary of Voyager 2 Flyby of Uranus in 1986
Jupiter's Magnetosphere
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 1/26/2001
Cassini 'Sees' Invisible Gas Doughnut Around Jupiter
Cassini "Sees" Invisible Gas Doughnut Around Jupiter
New from Cassini: Jupiter Lightning Storms, Small Moon
CIRS Objectives and Plans at Jupiter
Cassini Camera Visualizes the Invisible During Jupiter Flyby
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 1/19/2001
Cassini Scientists See No Sign of Lightning on Venus
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 1/12/2001
Inside Jupiter's Magnetosphere
Eleven New Moons for Jupiter
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 1/5/2001
Mission Status
NASA's Cassini Listens to Eerie New Sounds of Space Near Jupiter