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NASA Dryden Hosts ITEA Student Robotics Teams Tour
05.06.13 - Students from a half-dozen junior and senior high schools get a first-hand look at technology and engineering in action during ITEA event.
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GPM: For Good Measure Video
Global Precipitation Measurement is a satellite mission that will measure rain and snow worldwide from space every three hours.
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Tidal Weirdness →
Why do tide cycles take 24 hours and 50 minutes? What is a neap tide? Read about these and other curiosities.
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Asteroid Retrieval Mission
NASA has a plan to robotically capture a small asteroid and redirect it safely near Earth where astronauts can visit and explore it.
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Why Is the Ocean Important? →
The ocean plays a starring role in whatever happens with the environment.
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What Causes a Rainbow? →
Learn the truth and the legends of rainbows. Find out where to stand to see them.
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Young Women Consider Career Choices
04.04.13 - Young women from schools in Florida's Putnam and Volusia counties recently participated in a panel discussion with NASA professionals on making career choices.
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Bad (Space) Weather Cancels Pigeon Races! →
Pigeons don't use the sun for navigation, but the sun affects their ability to navigate.
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How Did Mars Lose Its Atmosphere? Video
Though it doesn't look like a nice place to live now, Mars may once have had an atmosphere more like Earth's!
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Why Is Curiosity Looking for Organics?
What are organic molecules, and what can they tell us about the history of Mars? Learn more in this 60-second video.
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Record Number of Students Control Station Camera
02.21.13 - Wonder what it's like to control a camera on the International Space Station? More than 30,000 students found out as part of the EarthKAM mission.
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Send Your Superhero by March 20! →
SolarMax and the Space Weather Superheroes need more team members. Create a new anime-style character with a visible space weather-related power.
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Which Pole Is Colder? →
The North Pole and the South Pole are both cold. But is one colder than the other?
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NASA Mission Planner
Get the facts about recent missions with this interactive quiz.
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NASA Asteroid Contest
Students plan a mission to an asteroid! Enter by March 8, 2013.
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Israeli Students Honor Hometown Hero
As NASA honored the astronauts lost on Columbia's STS-107 mission, students from a crew member's hometown joined Day of Remembrance ceremonies.
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Titan & Europa Essay Contest →
Which would be a more interesting mission -- Saturn's moon, Titan, or Jupiter's moon, Europa? Send NASA your ideas.
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Take a Tour of the Space Station
Astronaut Suni Williams gives an inside look at the space station with this series of videos.
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Space Nutrition
Read about space food and space travel on your iPad or as a PDF.
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Safe and Automatic Landings
NASA is using a Huey helicopter to test technology that lands spacecraft safely on another planet.