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NASA Team Finds Riches in Meteorite Treasure Hunt
03.27.09 - Just before dawn on Oct. 7, 2008, an SUV-sized asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere and exploded harmlessly over the Nubian Desert of northern Sudan. Scientists expected the asteroid, called 2008 TC3, had blown to dust in the resulting high-altitude fireball.
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NASA Awards $10 Million Cooperative Agreement to Maryland Firm
03.27.09 - NASA Ames Research Center has selected the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), Columbia, Md., for award of a new five-year cooperative agreement valued at $9,873,524 to provide internships to talented university students and faculty engaged in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
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NASA Scientists Solve Mystery of Saturn's Moons
03.26.09 - For more than 30 years, scientists have been observing an unknown substance on the dark surfaces of objects far beyond the Earth in the outer solar system.
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Hawaii Students to Receive Special Call from Space
03.25.09 - The Hawaii Space Grant Consortium and Punahou School in Honolulu will host a live education downlink from space shuttle Discovery with STS-119 mission specialists Joe Acaba, Richard Arnold and Sandy Magnus. Acaba and Arnold are both former middle and high school science teachers.
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NASA and Microsoft to Make Universe of Data Available to the Public
03.24.09 - NASA and Microsoft Corp. announced Tuesday plans to make planetary images and data available via the Internet under a Space Act Agreement. Through this project, NASA and Microsoft jointly will develop the technology and infrastructure necessary to make the most interesting NASA content -- including high-resolution scientific images and data from Mars and the moon -- explorable on WorldWide Telescope, Microsoft's online virtual telescope for exploring the universe.
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NASA Sets Teleconference to Discuss Recovered Meteorites
03.23.09 - NASA will hold a media teleconference on Wednesday, March 25, at 2 p.m. EDT to reveal science findings from recently discovered meteorites.
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Student-Built Mini Robots Compete in Botball Regional Tournament
03.23.09 - Are you ready for some Botball? If so, dozens of fast-paced mini robots built by hundreds of California high school students will compete Saturday, March 28, 2009, starting at 10 a.m. PDT, the Mt. Pleasant High School, San Jose, Calif.
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NASA Moon Mission Brings Divergent Passions Together
03.17.09 - Growing up in the rural Appalachian foothills of the Ohio Valley, John Marmie developed a passion for music. When he combined that passion with his enthusiasm for space exploration, he was inspired to write an original song, 'Water on the Moon.'
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NASA Scientists Find Clues to a Secret of Life
03.17.09 - Biological molecules created in space and brought to Earth by meteorite impacts may help explain why life is left-handed.
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NASA Ames to Host International Year of Astronomy Museum Exhibit
03.16.09 - News media are invited to attend an opening ceremony for the new International Year of Astronomy exhibit entitled “From Earth to the Universe” and interview NASA officials at NASA Ames Research Center on Wednesday, March 18, 2009.
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NASA, Universities Unveil Plans to Build New Campus at Ames
03.13.09 - The University of California, Santa Cruz, (UCSC) and Foothill-De Anza Community College District today announced a dynamic new partnership with NASA Ames Research Center to establish a sustainable community for education and research at the NASA Research Park at Moffett Field.
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Mars, Then and Now: Google Mars Update
03.13.09 - NASA and Google announce an update to Mars in Google Earth, a 3D Mapping tool for the Red Planet.
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Space Research May Help Explain Salmonella Illness
03.11.09 - Salmonella bacteria research from two recent NASA space missions discovered key elements of the bacteria's disease-causing potential that hold promise for improving ways to fight food-borne infections on Earth.
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NASA Ames Sponsors Lecture on Darwin's Evolution Theory
03.09.09 - In honor of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of "On the Origin of Species," NASA Ames Research Center and the NASA Astrobiology Institute are sponsoring a public lecture series focusing on evolution.
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NASA Ames and University Assoc. Unveil Partnership Plans
03.09.09 - News media are invited to attend the announcement of a major new partnership at NASA Research Park on Friday, March 13, 2009 at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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NASA's Kepler Mission Rockets to Space in Search of Other Earths
03.07.09 - NASA's Kepler mission successfully launched into space from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II at 10:49 p.m. EST, Friday.
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Bay Area Native Works on NASA's Kepler Mission
03.06.09 - Natalie Batalha, a co-investigator for NASA's Kepler mission, always thought she would follow in her parent's footsteps.
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NASA's Kepler Mission Set For Launch
03.05.09 - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's Kepler mission to seek other Earth-like planets is undergoing final preparations for liftoff Friday, March 6, from Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The spacecraft launch aboard a Delta II rocket has two windows of opportunity Friday, from 10:49 to 10:52 p.m. and 11:13 to 11:16 p.m. EST.
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NASA Ames Invites News Media for Live Broadcast of Kepler Launch
03.04.09 - MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., -- News media and the public are invited to observe the live televised broadcast of the countdown and launch of the Kepler mission on Friday, March 6, 2009 in the Exploration Center at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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NASA, Cisco Partnering for Climate Change Monitoring Platform
03.03.09 - WASHINGTON -- NASA and Cisco Inc. announced Tuesday a partnership to develop an online collaborative global monitoring platform called the "Planetary Skin" to capture, collect, analyze and report data on environmental conditions around the world.