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Kepler Mission Manager Update
03.05.2013 - Since returning to science data collection on Jan. 27, 2013, after a 10-day precautionary wheel rest safe mode, the spacecraft has been performing well and continues to make science observations.
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A Window into Europa's Ocean Right at the Surface
3.05.13 - If you could lick the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa, you would actually be sampling a bit of the ocean beneath.
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NASA Launches Interactive Website to Design Interplanetary Missions
03.05.2013 - A small group of engineers at NASA Ames have launched a new web-based tool for scientists and engineers to use when designing spacecraft trajectories to interplanetary destinations..
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SpaceX to Carry Two Ames Space Station Experiments
02.28.13 - Two bioscience payloads are scheduled to be launched to the International Space Station Friday, March 1.
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NASA Invites Media to Showcase of Solutions Finalists
02.28.13 - NASA Ames Research Center and Sustainable Silicon Valley (SSV), Santa Clara, Calif., are partnering to showcase game-changing solutions.
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NASA Eyes Declining Vegetation in Eastern U.S.
02.25.13 - NASA scientists report that warmer temperatures and changes in precipitation locally and regionally have altered the growth of large forest areas.
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NASA Rover Confirms First Drilled Mars Rock Sample
02.20.13 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images that confirm it has successfully obtained the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another planet.
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Kepler Mission Discovers Tiny Planet System
02.20.2013 - Kepler mission scientists have discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around a star similar to our sun.
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NASA Announces 2013 Black Engineer of the Year Awards
02.19.13 - Ten distinguished NASA employees have been recognized in this year’s Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA). The ten awardees are from three NASA centers and received their awards during a three-day conference Feb. 7-9, 2013 in Washington, D.C.
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North American Students Become Virtual Explorers
02.15.2013 - Students from across North America recently participated in a real NASA Mars mission
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Educator Teams Fly on NASA's SOFIA Airborne Observatory
02.14.2013 - The first four Airborne Astronomy Ambassador (AAA) educators returned safely to Earth, landing in Palmdale, Calif. early in the morning Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, after completing their initial flight on NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA.
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NASA Designs New Space Telescope Optics
02.13.2013 - Although hundreds of planets orbiting other stars have been discovered in the past 15 years, we cannot yet answer the age-old question of whether any of these planets are capable of sustaining life.
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NASA's Rover Collects First Martian Bedrock Sample
02.09.13 - NASA's Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a flat, veiny rock on Mars and collect a sample from its interior.
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NASA Targets Water Recycling System for Rapid Development
02.11.2013 - NASA Targets Water Recycling System for Rapid Development
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Kepler Data Suggest Earth-size Planets May Be Next Door
02.06.2013 - Astronomers estimate that six percent of red dwarfs have a temperate Earth-size planet, as close as 13 light-years away.
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LADEE Project Manager Update
02.05.13 - Engineers at NASA’s Ames Research Center have completed all of the mechanical tests of the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer spacecraft.
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Sector 33 Game App Goes Android
02.05.13 - Up to the challenge of playing a game where you're in control of airplanes in a piece of the nation's skies? Yup, there's an app for that.
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NASA Hosts Media Teleconference on Asteroid Flyby
02.04.2013 - NASA will hold a media teleconference at 11 a.m. PST Feb. 7, to discuss an asteroid that will pass close, but safely, by Earth on Feb. 15.
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Day of Remembrance and Kalpana Chawla Exhibit
02.04.13 - Image: Ames held a Day of Remembrance Ceremony at which an exhibit was unveiled to pay tribute to astronaut Kalpana Chawla.
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NASA Ames AJAX Project Supports DISCOVER-AQ Campaign
02.04.2013 - Earth science researchers at NASA’s Ames are supporting the DISCOVER-AQ mission currently taking place this month over the San Joaquin Valley, Calif.