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Bob Benson: Tales of Chilly Research
12.29.10 - Bob Benson tells tales of winter research in Minnesota, the South Pole and Alaska over a five-decade career studying Earth's ionosphere.
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The Emerald Isle Covered in White
12.29.10 - Ireland was swathed in white Dec. 22, when NASA's Terra satellite passed overhead.
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GOES-13 Satellite Captures Powerful Snowmaker Leaving New England
12.27.10 - A powerful low pressure system brought blizzard conditions from northern New Jersey to Maine over Christmas weekend. The GOES-13 satellite captured an image of the low's center off the Massachusetts coast and saw the snowfall left behind.
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GOES Satellites See Holiday Weather Conditions
12.23.10 - Travelers over the long holiday weekend can count on one Christmas present: great satellite imagery to aid their journeys.
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Unstable Antarctica: What's Driving Ice Loss?
12.15.10 - New studies reveal mechanisms driving ice loss in West Antarctica, with implications for improving predictions of sea level rise.
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Curving Mirrors in Space
12.09.10 - The actuators behind the Webb telescope's mirrors play a very important role in the telescope's function.
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NASA Satellite Sees an "Early Winter" in the U.S. Midwest
12.08.10 - For much of the upper Midwestern United States, winter conditions have arrived before astronomical winter. Residents in these areas of the U.S. hope it leaves early, too.
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Photos from 'A Week in the Life of Goddard'
Is it possible to wholly capture the diverse community and groundbreaking work done at Goddard? These photographs tell part of the story.
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Blacker Than Black
12.02.10 - NASA engineer develops nanotechnology to help make the invisible, visible.
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Cassini Finds Warm Cracks on Enceladus
12.01.10 - New data from the Cassini spacecraft give scientists a unique view of active fissures through the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
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GOES-13 Looks at Thanksgiving Travel Conditions
11.24.10 - The GOES-13 satellite captured a look at the United States as Thanksgiving travelers make their way to their holiday celebrations.
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Stripes are Back in Season on Jupiter
11.24.10 - New NASA images support findings that one of Jupiter's stripes that "disappeared" last spring is now showing signs of a comeback.
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Earth Observing-1: Ten Years of Innovation
11.23.10 - Scheduled to fly one year, designed to last a year and a half, EO-1 celebrated ten years Nov. 21, 2010. The satellite accomplished far more than anyone dreamed.
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Glory Team Overcomes Engineering Obstacles
11.22.10 - Engineers have faced and overcome a number of unique engineering challenges in recent years while preparing NASA's newest climate-monitoring mission for launch.
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Teen Sailor and her NASA-Aided Rescue
11.22.10 - No one was more surprised than Abby Sunderland at how quickly she was rescued after her sailboat was dismasted in the Indian Ocean in June.
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Scientists Chosen to Help on Venus Climate Orbiter
11.19.10 - NASA has established a Venus Climate Orbiter Participating Scientist Program to complement scientific return of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)-led Venus Climate Orbiter, or Akatsuki mission.
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NASA Engineer to Blog about McMurdo Station
11.19.10 - More than a dozen NASA engineers and support personnel will be packing their bags and spending their holidays in Antarctica.
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NASA Mars Rover Images Honor Apollo 12
11.18.10 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has visited and photographed two craters informally named for the spacecraft that carried men to the moon 41 years ago this week.
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NASA Goes to the Set of CBS's 'The Big Bang Theory'
11.15.10 - NASA scientists bearing gifts visit the set of CBS' hit series "The Big Bang Theory."
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NASA Chat: Antarctic Fliers, Live!
11.18.10 - Since Oct. 26, researchers have been making flights over Antarctica on NASA's DC-8 flying science laboratory to map ice surfaces and the features hidden below. On Thurs., Nov. 18, scientists were on hand during a flight to answer your questions about the mission.
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Cassini Reveals Saturn on a Dimmer Switch
11.10.10 - Like a cosmic light bulb on a dimmer switch, Saturn emitted gradually less energy each year from 2005 to 2009, according to Cassini observations.
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The Role of Melt in Loss of Old Arctic Sea Ice
11.09.10 - A NASA analysis of satellite data challenges previously held beliefs about how the Arctic loses its older and thicker 'multiyear' sea ice.
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NASA Extends TIMED Mission for Fourth Time
11.05.10 - NASA approved an extension of the TIMED mission through 2014.
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Supercomputers Preview What Webb Will See
11.03.10 - As scientists and engineers work to make the telescope a reality, they wonder what sights the largest space-based observatory will reveal.
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Kuiper Belt of Many Colors
10.27.10 - The sun isn't kind to objects without atmospheres. Bombarded by solar radiation surfaces of some comets tend to be a charred carbon-black.
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NASA Models Earth's Fiery Past and Future
10.27.10 - Over long time scales, research has shown that both the climate and humans have a profound effect on wildfire activity around the globe.
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Webb Telescope Primary Mirror Segment Completes Cryogenic Test
10.26.10 - Last week a primary mirror milestone was met for James Webb Space Telescope project as the first gold-coated mirror segment finished testing in the X-ray & Cryogenic Facility.
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Teen Sailor Meets NASA Team That Helped Save Her Life
10.25.10 - Six months after her boat was damaged in a storm, Abby Sunderland got to meet the NASA team that developed technology used to save her life.
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NASA Releases Report About Australia Balloon Mishap
10.22.2010 - A NASA panel that investigated the unsuccessful April 28, 2010 launch of a scientific balloon from Alice Springs, Australia, has released its report.
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NASA Airborne Campaign Begins Antarctic Sequel
10.22.10 - Scientists return this week to the Southern Hemisphere where NASA's Operation IceBridge mission will resume its second year of airborne surveys over Antarctica to monitor the region's sea ice, ice sheets and glaciers.
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LRO Supports Historic Lunar Impact Mission
10.21.10 - Support from LRO was critical to LCROSS's mission to search the moon's polar regions for evidence of water.
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NASA Invites Students to Study Sun During Solar Week
10.15.10 - Solar Week provides a weeklong series of web-based educational activities for classrooms about our magnetic variable star, the sun, and its interactions with Earth and the solar system.
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Carbon Dioxide Controls Earth's Temperature
10.14.10 - A new atmosphere-ocean climate modeling study shows that the planet's temperature depends, ultimately, on the atmospheric level of carbon dioxide.
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NASA Technology Could Aid in Mammogram Interpretation
10.14.10 - NASA software used to enhance Earth science imagery could one day aid in the interpretation of mammograms, ultrasounds and other medical imagery.
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Hubble Captures Aftermath of Asteroid Collision
10.13.10 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first snapshots of a suspected asteroid collision. The images show a bizarre X-shaped object at the head of a comet-like trail of material.
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Explore Energy with NASA during Earth Science Week
10.12.10 - Exploring Energy is the theme of this year’s Earth Science Week, Oct. 10-16.
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Small Asteroid to Pass Within Earth-Moon System Tuesday
10.11.10 - A small asteroid will fly past Earth early Tuesday within the Earth-moon system.
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Arctic Sea Ice Reaches 2010 Minimum Extent
10.06.10 - Sea ice has reached its minimum extent for 2010, measuring in at the third-lowest extent since satellite measurements began.
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Goddard Partnership Creating Engineering Pipeline
10.04.10 - One small college outside the Washington beltway has been fostering young students' interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics careers.
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Europa's Hidden Ice Chemistry
10.04.10 - The discovery of reactions between two ices at temperatures hundreds of degrees below freezing could revamp our understanding of Europa.
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Nicole (Atlantic Ocean)
10.04.10 - A deep, stationary trough of low pressure parked over the Ohio and Tennessee valleys west of the Appalachians drew a steady stream of tropical moisture, including the remnants of Tropical Storm Nicole, up the East Coast.
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Webb Telescope Instrument Gets One Step Closer to Space
10.01.10 - A major instrument due to fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is getting its first taste of space in test facilities in the United Kingdom.
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How Warm Was This Summer?
09.30.10 - An unparalleled heat wave in eastern Europe, coupled with droughts and fires around Moscow, put Earth's temperatures in the headlines this summer.
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Cluster Helps Disentangle Turbulence in the Solar Wind
10.04.10 - This solar wind is some million degrees Celsius, can move as fast as 750 kilometers (466 statute miles) per second, and – so far – defies a complete description by any one theory.
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IBEX Finds Surprising Changes at Solar Boundary
09.30.10 - When Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) was launched on October 19, 2008, space physicists held their collective breath for never-before-seen views of a collision zone far beyond the planets. Now scientists have finished assembling a second complete sweep around the sky, and IBEX has again delivered an unexpected result: the map has changed significantly.
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Map Offers View of Health-Sapping Air Pollution
09.22.10 - Scientists have produced a new map of Fine Particulate Matter particles 2.5 micrometers or less in diameter (PM2.5), using MISR/MODIS data.
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Students Develop Small Satellite with Big Plans
09.20.10 - Firefly will focus on the mystery of near Earth gamma ray flashes, a little understood phenomenon linked to lightning, which scientists hope to answer with this pint-sized satellite.
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AERONET Network Resides on Earth
09.17.10 - NASA’s known best for sending humans to the Moon and rovers to Mars, but one of the agency’s most widely used sensor networks resides right here on terra firma.
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NASA's LRO Exposes Moon's Complex, Turbulent Youth
09.16.10 - The moon was bombarded by two distinct populations of asteroids or comets in its youth, and its surface is more complex than previously thought.
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Antarctic Ozone Hole 2010
09.16.10 - This year's annual depletion of stratospheric ozone over Antarctica – more commonly referred to as the “ozone hole” – started in early August 2010 and is now expanding toward its annual maximum.
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Observe the Moon Night Goes Global
09.14.10 - On September 18, 2010 the world will join the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Visitor Center in Greenbelt, Md., as well as other NASA Centers to celebrate the first annual International Observe the Moon Night (InOMN).
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A Sea Ice Snapshot
09.13.10 - While the 2010 minimum extent of arctic sea ice remains to be seen, NASA's Aqua satellite captured this snapshot on Sept. 3.
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James Webb Space Telescope Cryogenic Mirror Test Facility Receives Gold
09.09.10 - The Marshall Center's X-ray & Cryogenic Facility has received a unique James Webb Space Telescope element for testing.
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Goddard Scientists Explore Desert RATS
09.09.10 - Two Goddard scientists participate in 2010 Desert RATS campaign.
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Satellite Measures Hermine's Severe Texas Rainfall from Space
09.09.10 - The TRMM satellite has provided a visual tool to see just how much rain Tropical Storm Hermine has dumped on Texas since it made landfall earlier this week.
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Webb Telescope's Guiding Light Arrives From Canada
09.08.10 - The Canadian Space Agency has delivered a test unit of the Fine Guidance Sensor to the James Webb Space Telescope to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt.
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Satellites Show Wildfire-Beetle Attacks Connection
09.08.10 - A new video shows how NASA maps pine beetle outbreaks, and what impact the beetle damage might have on forest fires.
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NASA Satellite Data Aids United Nations' Ability to Detect Global Fire Hotspots
09.07.10 - In the midst of a difficult fire season in many parts of the world, the United Nations' (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization has launched a new online fire detection system that will help firefighters and natural hazards managers improve response time and resource management.
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NASA's Magnetospheric Mission Passes Major Milestone
09.03.10 - NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission passed its critical design review, which clears the way for spacecraft fabrication.
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NASA Selects Science Invest. for Solar Probe Plus
09.02.10 - NASA has selected science investigations for a new Heliophysics mission called Solar Probe Plus.
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Taking the 'Search' out of Search and Rescue
09.02.10 - Technology NASA developed for the Search and Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking program has helped save 186 lives so far this year.
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Seven Things You Didn't Know About Mercury
09.01.10 - Mercury's exosphere is a place of amazing activity that can tell astronomers a lot about the planet's surface and environment.
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NASA Presents Challenge to Top Chef Contestants
09.03.10 - A new dish for astronauts in space has been created. Bravo TV's Emmy-award winning reality show "Top Chef" featured a special challenge to create a dish that could be freeze-dried and sent into space.
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The Moon Puts on Camouflage
08.30.10 - A new geologic map of a lunar basin paints an instant, camouflage-colored portrait of what a mash-up the moon's surface is after eons of violent events.
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NASA's Successful ICESat Mission Comes to an End
08.27.10 - ICESat has provided a critical look at ice thickness at Earth's polar regions over the course of its seven-year life. That mission has now ended.
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NASA Earth Scientists Advance Space Archaeology
08.25.10 - Two NASA Earth scientists have traded in their air-conditioned offices for the uncomfortably arid fields of central Turkey this summer.
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Hurricane Katrina: A Satellite Retrospective
08.24.10 - In early August 2005, "Katrina" was just a name. By September, it had become synonymous with the costliest tropical cyclone in U.S. history.
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How to Build a Giant Space Telescope
08.24.10 - It takes many years to build a real space telescope. However, when it comes assembling the life-sized model of NASA's Webb telescope...
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Snapshot of Activity Inside NASA's First GRIP Flight
08.20.10 - Scientists, graduate students and NASA flight crew took part in the first flight of the DC-8 aircraft in NASA's GRIP experiment on August 17.
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IBEX Spacecraft Finds Discoveries Close to Home
08.16.10 - It wasn’t until the IBEX mission that they’ve been able to see what the human eye cannot: the first-ever images of this electromagnetic crash scene.
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NASA's Terra Satellite Sees Intense Fires and Smoke Over Western Russia
08.13.10 - The MODIS instrument on NASA’s Terra satellite detected two clusters of intense fires when it acquired a photo-like image.
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The Next Decade of Astronomy Revealed
08.13.10 - Goddard staff watched the future of astronomy and astrophysics mapped out Friday Aug. 13 during the nationwide web-cast of the 2010 decadal survey organized by the National Research Council.
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NASA’s FASTSAT Satellite Arrives at Kodiak, Alaska, Launch Complex
08.11.10 - The Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite, or FASTSAT, arrived at the Kodiak Launch Complex on Kodiak Island, Alaska, on Aug. 10 from the Marshall Center.
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Fermi Detects 'Shocking' Surprise from Supernova's Little Cousin
08.12.10 - Astronomers using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected gamma-rays from a nova for the first time, a finding that stunned observers and theorists alike because unlike supernovae, these explosions are typically too small to see.
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The Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa
08.11.10 - Summer interns from Goddard's Lunar and Planetary Science Academy investigate the persistent question of how these rocks big and small move across two flats in Death Valley.
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Nobel Replica Returned After Space Venture
08.11.10 - The first-ever Nobel Prize medal flown into space, by NASA's STS-132 space shuttle crew, was returned to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., on July 27.
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M-Class Solar Flare Erupts
08.09.10 - An M-class flare erupted in active sunspot region 1093, peaking at 1824 UTC on August 7, 2010.
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Ice Island Calves off Petermann Glacier
08.09.10 - A chunk of ice some 97 square miles in size broke off Greenland's Petermann Glacier on August 5. The resulting iceberg is the Arctic's largest since 1962.
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Activity from Aug. 1 CME Subsides
08.06.10 - Another great image from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) of the solar event on August 1. Increased aurora activity because of the Aug. 1 event has subsided.
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NASA's Hurricane Quest Set To Begin
08.05.10 - Flying above tropical storms this summer, NASA's goal is nothing short of the ultimate goal for hurricane science: Understanding how they form.
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Goddard Gotchu!
08.03.10 - The "Hubble Gotchu!" guy, famous for his sketches on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" ventured to Goddard last month. The resulting video aired last night!
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Visits Goddard
07.30.10 - On Thursday, July 29, 2010 NASA Administrator Charles Bolden attended a townhall meeting at Goddard Space Flight Center to talk with NASA interns, fellows and scholars.
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James Webb Space Telescope Completes Cryogenic Mirror Test
07.27.10 - Recently, six James Webb Space Telescope beryllium mirror segments completed a series of cryogenic tests at the X-ray & Cryogenic Facility at the Marshall Center.
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GOES-13 Satellite Sees Severe Storms Strike U.S. East Coast
07.27.10 - One of the most destructive storms in years struck Washington, D.C. and the surrounding area on July 25, 2010.
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Antarctica Traced from Space
07.22.10 - The point where ice separates from land is called the "grounding line." For scientists, an accurate map of the grounding line is a first step toward a complete calculation of how much ice the continent is losing.
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NASA Satellites' View of Gulf Oil Spill Over Time
07.20.10 - This updated video shows a series of images that provide a space-based view of the burning oil rig and the ensuing oil spill, now with additional footage through July 14.
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New Map Depicts Global Forest Heights
07.20.10 - Using NASA satellite data, scientists have produced a first-of-its kind map that details the heights of the world's forests.
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Supercomputer Reproduces a Cyclone's Birth
07.21.10 - NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has helped develop a simulation of tropical cyclone Nargis, which devastated Myanmar in 2008. The result is the first model to replicate the formation of the tropical cyclone five days in advance.
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NASA Goddard Felt July 16 Quake
07.16.10 - A small earthquake, centered near Germantown, Md., occurred at 5:04 a.m. EDT on July 16, and its vibrations were felt from West Virginia to Connecticut.
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See What's Brewing in 'Hurricane Alleys'
07.13.10 - GOES scientists have developed continually updating 'movies' of satellite imagery that allow online, iPhone and iPad viewing of any storm's movement in the Atlantic Ocean or Eastern Pacific Ocean.
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Behind the Scenes With the Webb Telescope
07.12.10 - There are a lot of things that happen "behind the scenes" when a space telescope is being built, as this recent photo shows.
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SDO Captures Sun's Arcing Active Region
07.09.10 - As the arcing loops above an active region began to rotate into a nice profile view, SDO captured the dynamic, magnetic struggles taking place below (July 6-8, 2010).
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Mile-long Chunk of Ice Calves off Greenland Glacier
07.09.10 - Jakobshavn Glacier shed 2.7 square miles of ice overnight as researchers watched the ice sheet rift and then retreat.
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GRIP: An Unprecedented Look Inside Hurricanes
07.07.10 - NASA is leading an aircraft campaign that will provide a sustained and unprecedented look at the inner workings of hurricane formation and intensification.
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Saturn's Icy Moon May Keep Oceans Liquid with Wobble
10.06.10 - Enceladus should have frozen solid long ago, but a slight wobble may help generate enough heat to create an ocean under its icy surface.
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Apollo 16: Footsteps Under High Sun
07.08.10 - This image from LRO of the Apollo 16 landing site was acquired when the sun was nearly overhead. High sun causes white and metallic artifacts left on the surface by to stand out in high contrast.
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Starburst Cluster Shows Celestial Fireworks
07.06.10 - Like a July 4 fireworks display a young, glittering collection of stars seen by Hubble resemble an aerial burst.
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NASA Earth Science Goes to the Movies
07.02.10 - The "Know Your Earth" video highlights NASA's role in studying our home planet. It appears beginning today in special kiosks in movie theaters across the country.
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NASA CARES About Carbonaceous Aerosols
07.01.10 - The U.S. Department of Energy led this year’s Carbonaceous Aerosol and Radiation Effects Study (CARES), including NASA researchers, to analyze the way these particles affect the area downwind of Sacramento.
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Saturn System Moves Oxygen From Enceladus to Titan
07.01.10 - Complex interactions between Saturn and its satellites have led scientists using NASA's Cassini spacecraft to a comprehensive model that could explain how oxygen may end up on the surface of Saturn's icy moon Titan.
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Creating Earth From Hundreds of Images
06.28.10 - At Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio, Helen-Nicole Kostis works as part of a team that takes raw scientific data and translates it into stunning imagery.
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Goddard Crater
06.25.10 - LOLA highlights the Goddard Crater on the Moon in this spectacular shot.
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The Earth From The Moon
06.24.10 - The Earth as seen from the Moon! This is an LROC NAC mosaic of images snapped on 12 June 2010 during a calibration sequence.
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Ten Cool Things Seen in the First Year of LRO
06.23.10 - In celebration of one year since launch, here are ten cool things already observed by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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'L2': The Webb Space Telescope's Home in Space
06.23.10 - The Webb won't be orbiting the Earth –instead will we send it almost a million miles out into space, to a place called 'L2.'
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Model Helps Search for Moon Dust Fountains
06.10.10 - Fountains of electric dust may be responsible for a mysterious glow seen on the lunar horizon during the Apollo 17 and other missions.
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FastSat Ready for Shipping to Alaska
06.07.10 - NASA's Heliophysics FastSat satellite (that includes 3 Goddard instruments) has been assembled at NASA MSFC and is ready for shipment to the USAF in Alaska.
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NASA Center for Climate Simulation Debuts
06.02.10 - NASA climate simulations use and produce vast amounts of data, and the newly named NASA Center for Climate Simulation is expanding services to meet the agency's growing climate data needs.
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Lasers Help Predict Birds' Preferred Habitat
06.01.10 - A research team has helped predict the presence of songbirds in a forest by combining satellite data, bird census, and other light detection and ranging with a new modeling technique.
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What Lies Beneath: An Interview with Permafrost Expert Larry Hinzman
05.27.10 - NASA interviews Larry Hinzman, director of the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska, about greenhouse gases trapped beneath the Arctic permafrost.
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NASA Takes To The Air With New 'Earth Venture' Research Projects
05.27.10 - Hurricanes, air quality, and Arctic ecosystems are among the research areas to be investigated during the next five years by new NASA airborne science missions announced today.
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Swift Finds 'Smoking Gun' of Black Hole Activation
05.26.10 - Data from an ongoing survey by NASA's Swift satellite have helped astronomers solve a decades-long mystery about why a small percentage of black holes emit vast amounts of energy.
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The Glory Mission's Judith Lean Discusses Solar Variability
05.25.10 - We spoke with Judith Lean, a member of the Glory science team and solar physicist at the United States Naval Research Laboratory, about solar cycles and what scientists have learned about solar variability
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Why NASA Keeps a Close Eye on the Sun's Irradiance
05.25.10 - For more than two centuries, scientists have wondered how much heat and light the sun expels, and whether this energy varies enough to change Earth’s climate.
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SDO Reveals Large-Scale Effects of Solar Events
05.25.10 - NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, has allowed scientists for the first time to comprehensively view the dynamic nature of storms on the sun.
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NASA Goes Back in Time with New Video of First U.S. Weather Satellite
05.25.10 - Fifty years ago, TIROS-1 lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., opening an exciting dimension in weather forecasting, now captured in a new video about the historic satellite.
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Sailor Reflects on NASA Technology That Saved His Life
05.24.10 - Dennis Clements thought his life was over when, during a trip to the Caribbean, his boat capsized and left him floating 250 miles away from shore.
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NASA Sees Re-Suspended Ash from the Eyjafjallajökull Volcano
05.27.10 - By May 26, 2010, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this photo-like image, Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull Volcano had slowed its eruption.
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Webb Telescope's ISIM Structure Gets Cold-Tested
05.18.10 - The James Webb Telescope's ISIM Structure was Cold-Tested at NASA Goddard in the clean room recently.
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Mount St Helens' Recovery - Thirty Years Later
05.18.10 - A short video highlights Mount St. Helens' catastrophic eruption and recovery over the last thirty years, as captured by Landsat satellites.
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Smog Bloggers Make Understanding Air Pollution a Breeze
05.12.10 - A NASA video highlights how the Smog Bloggers combine laser measurements with NASA satellite data to paint a daily picture of air pollution across the US.
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Astronomers Nab Runaway Star
05.11.10 - A heavy runaway star is rushing away from a nearby stellar nursery at more than 250,000 miles an hour, a speed that will get you to the Moon and back in two hours.
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NASA to Probe the Universe's First Moments
04.29.10 - Sophisticated technologies developed at Goddard are enabling them to build an instrument designed to probe the first moments of the universe's existence.
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Cassini and Amateurs Chase Storm on Saturn Using Goddard Instrument
04.29.10 - With the help of amateur astronomers, the composite infrared spectrometer instrument aboard NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has taken its first look at a massive blizzard in Saturn’s atmosphere.
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IceBridge Mission at Halfway Point
04.23.10 - IceBridge project scientist Michael Studinger wrote from Thule, Greenland, to provide a look at some of the mission's accomplishments and critical moments.
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Smog Bloggers Untangle Air Pollution 365 Days a Year
04.22.10 - The Smog Blog website monitors air pollution much like meteorologists track the daily weather. We talk with lead blogger Raymond Hoff about the air you breathe.
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New Images Showcase 20 Years of Hubble
04.22.10 - NASA is releasing a new Hubble photo of a small portion of one of the largest known star-birth regions in the galaxy, the Carina Nebula, to celebrate the 20th Anniversary.
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A New Oral History: Where Words Touch the Earth
04.19.10 - The video series, "Where Words Touch the Earth," documents environmental changes observed by Native Americans.
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NASA's Swift Catches 500th Gamma-ray Burst
04.19.10 - Swift primarily studies gamma-ray bursts, the biggest and most mysterious explosions in the cosmos. On April 13, Swift's "burst-o-meter" cataloged its 500th GRB.
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NASA's Earth Science Highlighted in Washington, D.C.
04.18.10 - Between April 17 and April 25 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., NASA will have Earth Day presentations and demonstrations at the impressive NASA Village.
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Aerosols: From Ash in the Wind to Smoke from the Stack
04.16.10 - Aerosols don't just come from spray cans. Any airborne particle or droplet, whether from a canister, the smokestack of a factory, or a dust storm, is an aerosol.
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GOES-13 is now GOES East
04.16.10 - The GOES-12 satellite is being moved to cover South America, so GOES-13 goes into service over the Eastern United States.
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GloPac Science Flights
04.13.10 - A video highlights NASA pilots' and flight engineers' first science flight of the Global Hawk aircraft over the Pacific Ocean.
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Goddard Visitor Center Hosts Hundreds at 'Yuri's Night' Celebration
04.12.10 - The night of April 10 was filled with energy and pulsing beats as hundreds of guests converged upon NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
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Photographs of Goddard's 3rd Annual Yuri's Night
04.12.10 - View this page for photographs of the Goddard Space Flight Center's third annual Yuri's Night party on April 10, celebrating humankind's achievements in space exploration.
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Navigator Technology Takes GPS to a New High
04.09.10 - Business and government alike depend on GPS devices to determine location, time, and velocity. NASA engineers have found a way to improve their accuracy.
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Global Hawk Finishes First Pacific Science Flight
04.08.10 - NASA and NOAA have successfully completed the first science flight of the Global Hawk unpiloted aircraft system over the Pacific Ocean.
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NASA Sensors Quickly Estimate Iceland Volcano Emissions
04.07.10 - A NASA research team is using the latest advances in satellite artificial intelligence to speed up estimates of the heat and volume of lava escaping from an erupting volcano in Iceland.
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Students Bring Fresh Perspective to Webb Telescope
04.06.10 - At NASA Goddard, graduate students are on the front lines of technology development, adjusting lasers and mirrors and spending long hours at computer terminals.
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Arctic 2010 Sea Ice Maximum, Visualized
04.06.10 - This year, Arctic sea ice grew to levels beyond those measured in recent years but slightly below average when compared to the 30-year satellite record.
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GOES-12 Observes Flooding in Northeastern U.S.
04.02.10 - A video showing 10 days of GOES-12 data shows the storms that dumped heavy rainfall on the Northeastern United States in the latter part of March.
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Fermi Maps an Active Galaxy's 'Smokestack Plumes'
04.01.10 - If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon.
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NASA, NOAA Mark 50 Years of Weather Watching from Space
04.01.10 - Fifty years ago, the world's first weather satellite, TIROS-1, lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., opening a new and exciting dimension in weather forecasting.
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Deputy Director Orlando Figueroa
Read about Goddard's Deputy Director for Science and Technology, Orlando Figueroa.
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Extracting Information From Starlight
03.30.10 - The NIRSpec instrument arrived at Goddard. This is an in-depth look at what NIRSPec does.
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Crater Chains from the Moon's Mare Orientale Basin
03.30.10 - Chains of craters form either from material ejected from larger, distant craters, or when a comet or asteroid breaks up before impact.
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Goddard Instrument Aboard Cassini Spacecraft Sees 'Pac-Man' on Saturn Moon
03.29.10 - The highest-resolution-yet temperature map and images of Saturn’s icy moon Mimas obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft reveal surprising surface patterns.
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Extreme Weather Severely Impacts Migratory Birds
03.29.10 - Migratory birds experience severe impacts to their habitats and populations from events such as hurricanes and droughts.
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GOES Satellite Movie Captures Record-Setting February Blizzards in Washington
03.25.10 - During the first two weeks of February 2010, the GOES-12 weather satellite observed a record setting series of Nor'easter snow storms which blanketed the mid-Atlantic coast in two blizzards.
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Flooding 'GOES' to the Movies Via Satellite
03.24.10 - The northeastern U.S. was subjected to heavy flooding and damage from late winter storms, and GOES-12 captured a movie of those storms as they dumped heavy rainfall between March 8 and 16, 2010.
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Video Showcases Best Expectations of Webb Telescope
03.23.10 - Can you imagine seeing 13 billion years back in time, watching the first stars grow, galaxies evolve and solar systems form? You will.
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Experience Hubble's Universe in 3-D
03.19.10 - The cinematic space odysseys are part of the new Imax film "Hubble 3D," which opens today at select Imax theaters worldwide.
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Webb Telescope's MIRI Instrument Replica Reaches Goddard
03.18.10 - The next generation space telescope continues to come together at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., with the arrival of the "Mid Infrared Instrument."
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IceBridge Mission Prepares to Study Arctic Glaciers
03.18.10 - NASA's Operation IceBridge mission, the largest airborne survey ever flown of Earth's polar ice, kicks off its second year of study when NASA aircraft arrive in Greenland March 22.
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Surprise Shrimp Under Antarctic Ice
03.17.10 - At a depth of 600 feet beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet, a small shrimp-like creature managed to brighten up an otherwise gray polar day.
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Efforts to Stop Ozone Depletion Working, Study Confirms
03.16.10 - Ultraviolet radiation reaching the earth's surface increased for 30 years before leveling off in the mid-'90s, a new analysis of data from multiple sources shows.
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The Lunar Far Side as Seen by LOLA
03.12.10 - Topography data from Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) aboard LRO reveal a violent impact history on the far side of the Moon.
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Three FASTSAT Instruments Pass Tests
03.11.10 - Three FASTSAT Instruments were tested at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center recently. Known as MINI-ME, PISA and TTI.
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Crisium's Region of Interest
03.11.10 - The region of interest located in Mare Crisium is a compelling Exploration site for numerous reasons.
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Tropical Storm 90Q (Southern Atlantic)
03.12.10 - The second–ever known tropical cyclone in the South Atlantic Ocean can't escape satellite eyes ...
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'Webb-cam' Offers Live View of Clean Room
03.10.10 - Take a virtual trip into Goddard's largest clean room, current residence of James Webb Space Telescope components, with the help of live images from the "Webb-cam."
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Biggest, Deepest Crater Exposes Hidden, Ancient Moon
03.04.10 - The crater gives us a window into the earliest history of the Moon, and the Moon gives us a window into the violent youth of Earth.
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Lava Likely Made River-like Channel on Mars
03.04.10 - Lava can leave behind delicate features that have been previously considered clear evidence of water, according to studies that compare Earth, Mars and the moon.
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NASA's Fermi Probes "Dragons" of the Gamma-ray Sky
03.02.10 - Fermi reveals that most extragalactic gamma radiation comes from unknown sources rather than from black-hole-powered jets from active galaxies—what astronomers once considered the most likely suspects.
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Follow the NASA Countdown to GOES-P Launch
02.26.10 - The countdown to launch is on for the newest Geostationary Operational Environmental satellite, GOES-P.
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Turning Up the Heat on the Webb Telescope's Sunshield
03.03.10 - How do you test a structure the size of a tennis court? Webb telescope engineers have constructed a 1/3-scale model and a test facility to perform the critical thermal test of the sunshield system.
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The Case of the Mylar Mystery
02.25.10 - On January 11, 2010, "History Detective" Tukufu Zuberi, from the PBS show "The History Detectives," came to Goddard to investigate a mystery. The mystery to be solved was whether or not this bit of mylar was from Goddard’s Echo II satelloon project.
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ICESat's Notable Moments in Science
02.24.10 - ICESat has provided a critical look at ice thickness at Earth's polar regions over the course of its seven-year life. That mission is now coming to an end.
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Into a Volcano to Test Suitcase-Sized Science Lab
02.24.10 - Some scientists will go anywhere for a proper test...
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Piecing Together the Temperature Puzzle
02.23.10 - A new video and image gallery highlight NASA's scientific study of global climate change.
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A Stellar, Metal-Free Way to Make Carbon Nanotubes
02.22.10 - From the stars: A new way to make nanotubes - valued in materials science and medicine - without metal catalysts.
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Cars Emerge as Key Atmospheric Warming Force
02.18.10 - A new NASA study indicates that motor vehicles are the greatest contributor to atmospheric warming: They release greenhouse gases that promote warming, while emitting few aerosols that counteract it.
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Q and A with Climate Scientist Nadine Unger
02.18.10 - Nadine Unger, a climatologist with NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, discusses her recent study that analyzed how different human activities affect climate.
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NASA's Fermi Closes on Source of Cosmic Rays
02.16.10 - New images of supernova remnants from NASA's Fermi Telescope bring astronomers a step closer to understanding the source of some of the universe's most energetic particles -- cosmic rays.
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Riding out the Snow Storm Inside Goddard to Carry on the Mission
02.11.10 - Hundreds of employees at Goddard have been working since Friday afternoon to keep buildings and roads safe for the essential employees supporting the current shuttle mission and the operations of the Solar Dynamics Observatory which launched today, February 11.
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GOES-P Set for Launch
02.04.10 - The GOES-P spacecraft was fueled on Jan. 30 and mated with the Delta IV that will put it in orbit.
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New Hubble Maps of Pluto Show Surface Changes
02.04.10 - The images show an icy and dark molasses-colored, mottled world that is undergoing seasonal changes in its surface color and brightness.
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3D Measurements of Apollo 14 Landing Site
01.29.10 - Images from the LRO Camera taken at slightly different angles were used to make 3D measurements of the Apollo 14 landing site.
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Newborn Black Holes Boost Power
01.27.10 - Astronomers have found evidence that two supernovae blasts received an extra boost from newborn black holes.
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Cape Verde Islands and Hurricane Relevance
01.28.10 - NASA's Aqua satellite flies over the Cape Verde islands, a region known for hurricane activity, and recently captured a stunning visual image of them.
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Goddard Names New Science and Technology Deputy Dir.
01.26.10 - Center Director Rob Strain has named Orlando Figueroa as Goddard's new deputy director for science and technology, a post previously held by Dr. Laurie Leshin.
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GOES-P Proceeds Toward Launch
01.26.10 - The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-P is proceeding through more checks in preparation for its launch, which is no earlier than March 1.
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End of the Second Warmest Year/Warmest Decade on Record
01.21.10 - 2009 was tied for the second warmest year in the modern record, a new NASA analysis of global surface temperature shows.
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NASA Climatologist Discusses the Temperature Record
01.21.10 - Gavin Schmidt offers some context on the surface temperature record, a data set that’s generated considerable interest — and some controversy — in the past.
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Arctic 'Melt Season' Is Growing Longer, New Research Demonstrates
01.27.10 - New NASA-led research shows that the melt season for Arctic sea ice has lengthened by an average of 20 days over the span of 28 years.
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GOES-P Spacecraft Being Processed in Florida
01.15.10 - The GOES-P Spacecraft Being Processed in Florida, and this describes what is currently happening during launch preparations.
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Goddard Scientist's Breakthrough Given Ticket to Mars
01.05.10 - A new Mars mission will be checking whether a carefully chosen area of Mars has ever had an environment favorable for the development of life and preservation of evidence about life.
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Nature's Clocks May Make 'Galactic GPS' Possible
01.05.10 - Radio astronomers have uncovered 17 millisecond pulsars in our galaxy that could be used as a kind of "galactic GPS" to detect gravitational waves passing near Earth.
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Sun Glints Seen from Space Signal Oceans and Lakes
01.05.10 - Bright flashes of light off of bodies of water, known as sun glints, give scientists a way to pick out planets beyond our solar system (extrasolar planets) likely to have expanses of liquid water, and a better chance of supporting life.
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Hubble Reaches the "Undiscovered Country" of Primeval Galaxies
01.05.10 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has broken the distance limit for galaxies and uncovered a primordial population of compact and ultra-blue galaxies that have never been seen before.
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The PARASOL Satellite Moving Off the A-Train's Track
01.04.10 - After 5 years of concurrent operations with the Afternoon Constellation, known as the "A-Train," the PARASOL satellite is going on another orbit "track."