Space Exploration
18 Mar 2010 - Hot Spot
18 Mar 2010 - Hot Spot
New thermal images from powerful ground-based telescopes show swirls of warmer air and cooler regions never seen before within Jupiter's Great Red Spot, enabling scientists to make the first detailed interior weather map of the giant storm system.
New thermal images from powerful ground-based telescopes show swirls of warmer air and cooler regions never seen before within Jupiter's Great Red Spot, enabling scientists to make the first detailed interior weather map of the giant storm system.
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NASA Celebrates Sun-Earth Day Activities with Live Webcast
NASA EDGE, an award-winning talk show known for offbeat, funny and informative behind-the-scene stories about the space agency, will celebrate Sun-Earth Day 2010, with a live webcast about our sun and its effects on Earth.
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NASA IceBridge Mission Prepares for Study of Arctic Glaciers
NASA's Operation IceBridge mission, the largest airborne survey ever flown of Earth's polar ice, kicks off its second year of study when NASA aircraft arrive in Greenland March 22.
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NASA Celebrates Sun-Earth Day Activities with Live Webcast
NASA EDGE, an award-winning talk show known for offbeat, funny and informative behind-the-scene stories about the space agency, will celebrate Sun-Earth Day 2010, with a live webcast about our sun and its effects on Earth.
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Soyuz Landing Caps Milestone Space Station Mission
Expedition 22 Commander Jeff Williams and Flight Engineer Max Suraev landed their Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft on the steppes of Kazakhstan Thursday, wrapping up a five-and-a-half-month stay aboard the International Space Station.
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15 Mar 2010 - Phobos Up Close
15 Mar 2010 - Phobos Up Close
Images from the recent flyby of Phobos, on 7 March 2010, are released today. The images show Mars' rocky moon in exquisite detail, with a resolution of just 4.4 metres per pixel. They show the proposed landing sites for the Phobos-Grunt mission.
Images from the recent flyby of Phobos, on 7 March 2010, are released today. The images show Mars' rocky moon in exquisite detail, with a resolution of just 4.4 metres per pixel. They show the proposed landing sites for the Phobos-Grunt mission.
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NASA Briefing Highlights Education Outreach During Next Shuttle Flight
NASA will highlight the educational activities planned on the next space shuttle mission during a news briefing at 12 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, March 9.
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NASA Awards Civil Design, Engineering and Services Contract
NASA has selected Jones Edmunds & Associates, Inc. of Gainesville, Fla., to provide civil and environmental design, engineering and other professional services.
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NASA Announces Systems Engineering Student Competition
NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate is inviting teams of undergraduate and graduate students throughout the country to participate in the fourth annual Systems Engineering Paper Competition.
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NASA TV Provides Coverage of One Space Station Crew's Return to Earth and Another's Journey There
NASA Television will cover the landing of two current International Space Station crew members and the launch of three upcoming station residents later in March and April.
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NASA TV Media Channel Provides Clean Feeds for News Organizations
NASA Television provides a standard digital television channel as a resource for news media.
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NASA Offers 'FAST' Opportunities For Zero-G Technology Testing
NASA has announced opportunities to test emerging technologies during flights on an airplane that simulates the weightless conditions of space.
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Heads of Agency International Space Station Joint Statement
The heads of the International Space Station (ISS) agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia, and the United States met in Tokyo, Japan, on March 11, 2010, to review ISS cooperation.
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NASA Extends Johnson Safety and Mission Assurance Contract
NASA has exercised a $60 million, one-year extension option for a contract with Science Applications International Corporation of Houston to provide support to safety and mission assurance activities at the agency's Johnson Space Center.
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NASA Launches Interactive Simulation of Satellite Communications
NASA today unveiled an interactive computer simulation that allows virtual explorers of all ages to dock the space shuttle at the International Space Station, experience a virtual trip to Mars or a lunar impact, and explore images of star formations taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
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NASA Hosts First-Ever Water Sustainability Forum March 16 -18
NASA today announced its founding partnership of Launch, an initiative to identify, showcase and support innovative approaches to sustainability challenges through a series of forums.
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Student Teams Ready to Battle Lunar Terrain at NASA's 17th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race
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NASA and NOAA's GOES-P Satellite Successfully Launched
The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES-P, lifted off Thursday aboard a Delta IV rocket at 6:17 p.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
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Student Teams Ready to Battle Lunar Terrain at NASA's 17th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race
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Robot vs. Robot: Live In Washington and Across the Nation
NASA, in cooperation with local technology firms and sponsors, launches a nationwide series of high school robotics competitions that begin March 5 and 6 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place N.W., in Washington.
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