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On September 14, 2012, a Soyuz-2.1a/Fregat launch vehicle lifted off from Baikonur with the European meteorological satellite MetOp-B. MetOp-B is the second satellite in a series of three polar orbiting meteorological satellites operated by the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT).
Credit: Roscosmos
Expedition 32 Commander Gennady Padalka, Flight Engineers Joe Acaba and Sergei Revin landed on the steppe of Kazakhstan on September 17, 2012. The crew completed 123 days on the station.
Credit: NASA/Roscosmos
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A simulated flyover of the giant asteroid Vesta, as recorded by Dawn.
Credit: NASA / JPL
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NASA\’s RBSP mission started on August 30, 2012, with a liftoff from SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral AFS. Both spacecraft successfully separated from the Centaur upper stage.
Credit: NASA/ULA
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Images taken in ultraviolet show huge spirals. What we see are particles spinning along arcs of magnetic field lines.
Credit: NASA SDO
The movie shows the MSL\’s heat shield hitting the martian surface and raising a cloud of dust.
Credit: JPL
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