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NASA Ice Images Used to Study Arctic Habitats of Pacific Walrus
NASA collaborated with Alaska’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to determine the usefulness of satellite imagery for studying the effect of climate change on the Pacific walrus ice habitat in the Bering and Chukchi Seas.
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NASA Satellite Measurements of Atmospheric Dust Particles Validated
The Extended-MODIS Validation Experiment (EVE) evaluated the data on mineral dust properties from three instruments: the Ames Airborne Tracking Sunphotometer (AATS), mounted on a CIRPAS Twin-Otter aircraft that flew over the dark ocean off the coast of Monterey, Calif., and two MODIS sensors mounted on satellites – Terra and Aqua – that collected data from the same area.
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NASA Provides Rapid Response to State Emergency Service
When the Esperanza fire in Southern California ignited on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2006, NASA's assistance was requested to support fire fighters battling the rapidly-growing wildfire.
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NASA's 1976 Viking Landers Could Have Missed Organics on Mars
The researchers found that the Vikings' organic detection instruments were not sensitive enough to perceive minute bits of organics existing in those barren wastelands on our world.
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NASA Computer Systems Help Explore Ocean Depths and Beyond
The problems scientists must solve to enable robots to explore Mars and examine Earth's oceans are very similar, according to NASA computer scientists.
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NASA Developing New Heat Shield for Orion
NASA's new spaceship of the future must endure searing temperatures as the spacecraft streaks into the Earth's atmosphere on the way back from the moon.
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NASA 'Earbot' to Help 'Walker' Robots Keep Their Balance
NASA scientists are developing 'Earbot,' an artificial inner ear for legged, ‘walker’ robots that will help prevent them from toppling.
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NASA Study Shows How Delicate Organics Can Survive in Space
When scientists look up at the night sky with powerful infrared telescopes, they detect organics in every nook and cranny of our galaxy and in other galaxies.
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NASA Ames Spacecraft to Smash into a Pole of the moon in Search of Ice
In the near vacuum of space there will be silence as a large NASA rocket smashes into one of the moon's polar regions in early 2009.
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NASA Investigates Birthing Process of Tropical Hurricanes
This summer, NASA is applying its unique space-based, airborne and ground-based observational technologies in an African mission to study where and how tropical cyclones are born.
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NASA To Test Automated Drilling Rig in Arctic Crater In Mars Analog Mission
NASA scientists plan to drill someday into the surface of Mars to look for water and signs of possible life.
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Constellation Program
NASA is embarking on a grand challenge of space exploration that can only be achieved by effectively implementing and aligning work for the Vision for Space Exploration.
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NASA Synthetic Brain Power May Design More Than Space Antennas
Synthetic brainpower working on 80 NASA personal computers designed antennas for use on three small ST5 satellites that were launched into Earth orbit in March 2006.
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A Look Back at Ames’ Contributions to the Shuttle
Research at Ames has played a key role in the evolution of the shuttle program from the very beginning.
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NASA Ames Contributions to Space Exploration
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., is currently supporting the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) and the Crew Launch Vehicle (CLV).
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M.A.R.T.E. Chronicle Drill Simulation
The Mission Simulation directed by the science team located at Centro de Astrobiologia in Madrid began on schedule on Sept. 5.
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M.A.R.T.E. Chronicle Integration
With the drill core service module positioned at the drill site we were ready to install the various subsystems.
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M.A.R.T.E. Chronicle Field Site
On August 10th, 2005, the MARTE Mission Simulation began with the drilling assessment conducted at Las Zarandas.
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Dreams Are Creating a Future, New NASA Spaceship
What once was only a dream that envisioned a new spaceship that would fly astronauts back to the moon and beyond is now taking small steps toward reality as NASA's Constellation Program takes shape.
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NASA Discovers That Hot-spring Organism Proteins Also Are in Blood
Scientists have discovered heat-resistant proteins in the layers surrounding cells and determined that these proteins protect cells from leaks, according to a NASA study.