For more live updates, including photos and footage from Mars, visit the Jet Propulsion Lab at CalTech.

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We have a bevy of people here in Utah and the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena and at Lockheed Martin in Denver they're flying the spacecraft.

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Dr Amy Mainzer, principal investigator on the Neowise (Near-Earth Wise observations) project at the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) in California, said that "estimating the ages and origins of the asteroids should help us to correlate events on Earth and impact craters on the Moon with what is going on in the Solar System".

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