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NASA Scientists Predict Major Ecosystem Carbon Loss in Western States
Future climate scenarios of air temperature warming imply that ecosystems across the western United States will experience large carbon losses to the atmosphere and tree growth decline in the western United States, according to NASA Earth scientists.
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NASA Scientists Assess the Possibilities of Water and Life on Enceladus
There is a chance that liquid water and maybe even a possibility life could exist on Saturn's moon, Enceladus, according to NASA scientists who are studying data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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Spring 2008 HiRISE Image Suggestion Challenge
Think you have to be a scientist to contribute to cutting-edge Mars research? Think again!
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Public to Help NASA, SETI Institute, Other Scientists Study Meteor Shower
An airborne mission to search for evidence of a comet's primordial crust and help improve meteor storm prediction models. On September 1, 2007, a team of 24 researchers will deploy from NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. to observe the rare Aurigid meteor shower, caused by a trail of 2000-year old dust from long-period comet C/1911 N1 (Kiess).
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NASA Web site Shows Possible Mars Landing Sites for 2009 Mission
NASA's Marsoweb Web site now includes high-resolution images of candidate 2009 landing sites for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover.
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NASA Engineer Works to Develop New Airplane to Seek Water on Mars
An engineer at NASA is working to develop an airplane that will seek water on Mars.
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NASA's Phoenix to Assess Chance for Life in Mars' Northern Hemisphere
In 2008, NASA's Phoenix spacecraft is scheduled to land in the northern plains of Mars to determine if that environment could support life in the past or in geologically recent times.
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New NASA Computer Programs Help Engineers Find Machine Defects
Finding defects in rotating machinery will be quicker and easier, thanks to two new NASA computer programs and an award-winning technical paper that describes them.
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A Gloomy Mars Warms Up
For the past 30 years, NASA scientists have been using high-tech satellite equipment to study features on the face of Mars. It appears a slight change in the planet’s surface luster has caused its temperature to rise.
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NASA's Phoenix to Seek Organics in Mars' Ice to Unravel Red Planet's Mysteries
A spacecraft called Phoenix is destined to land on Mars in 2008, seeking to unravel some of the mysteries of the red planet.
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NASA Develops Weather Map of a 'Hot Jupiter' Planet
Using images from the Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers can now estimate the weather of a Jupiter-like exoplanet as it orbits a Sun-like star that is about 60 light-years away.
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Kepler Mission Update
A compilation of feature stories, multimedia resources and the people involved with the Kepler mission.
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Earth’s Polar Regions Provide Clues to Past Life on Mars
Before scientists can hypothesize about life on Mars, they must first explain how liquid water can exist in such a cold, dry place. To search for clues, researchers traveled to the most Mars-like conditions on Earth.
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NASA 'Image Fusion' Will Help Doctors Examine Astronauts' Hearts in Space
NASA scientists are studying ways to improve space medicine to tackle space travel's medical challenges. One effort is to develop 'image fusion.' In this process, clear, sharp x-rays and other high-resolution, scanned images of astronauts taken on Earth will be combined with less sharp sonograms taken onboard spacecraft to enhance those images.
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Sensor Being Developed to Check for Life on Mars
NASA-funded researchers are refining a tool that could not only check for the faintest traces of life's molecular building blocks on Mars, but could also determine whether they have been produced by anything alive.
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Airborne Pollutants Know No Borders
Mounting evidence suggests that gas and aerosol pollutants are routinely transported by winds across and between continents and can affect the air and climate of areas far from their source.
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Computer Screens to be Virtual NASA Spaceship Windows Over Mars
NASA is providing a unique opportunity to the public to suggest photo targets for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), the spacecraft that recently took a history-making image of the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on the rim of Victoria Crater.
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GeneSat-1 Experiment Successfully Completed →
The biological experiment on Genesat-1 was successfully concluded and data was distributed to the team of mission scientists and engineers on 12/22. The experiment studied the effects of space flight on e. coli bacteria.
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A Real Mars Research Mission on Earth
Cramped quarters, stuffy space suits, long working hours and hard research are what 24 intrepid explorers expect in the high deserts of Utah.
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Stardust Mission
In search of clues about the origin of life on Earth and other secrets.