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The Rosetta spacecraft will fly within 800 km of asteroid 2867 Steins on 5 September at 18:58 UTC (2:58 p.m. EDT). For more, see the ESA press release and for live updates, see the ESA Rosetta Blog
The Phoenix lander has positively confirmed the presence of water ice on Mars. This marks the first direct in-situ detection of martian water. NASA also announced the mission will be extended through 30 September. See the University of Arizona news release for more details.
At least one of the lake-like features seen on Saturn's moon Titan contains liquid hydrocarbons, according to data returned by the Cassini probe. For more information, see the NASA press release.
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