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This fisheye image shows the four MMS observatories inside the cleanroom at Goddard.

NASA’s MMS Achieves Major Mission Milestone

This fisheye image shows NASA’s four Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, observatories inside the cleanroom at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in ...

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The brightness in the lower right corner represent a cloud of solar material bursting off the sun in a coronal mass ejection on June 11, 2013.

NASA Spacecraft Detect a Mars-Directed CME

On June 11, 2013, at 2 p.m. EDT, the sun erupted with a coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar ...

In this SDO solar eclipse image the moon's shadow has been replaced by an actual moon image taken by LRO.

The Moon and Sun: Two NASA Missions Join Images

NASA visualizers overlay a 3-dimensional model of the moon based on data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter into the shadow of the moon during ...

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SUNRISE Launched from Sweden

A NASA scientific balloon carrying the SUNRISE solar telescope was successfully launched at 1:37 a.m. EDT June 12, 2013 from the Esrange Space Center ...

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Noctilucent Clouds Get an Early Start

The early start of the 2013 season appears to be caused by a change in atmospheric “teleconnections,” connections between different layers of the atmosphere that operate over great distances.
Officials Meet in Washington to Discuss Solar Storms, Great and Small

Policy makers and researchers are getting together in Washington to talk about space weather -- but the discussion will be a little different than usual.
NASA's IRIS Mission to Launch in June

Understanding how energy travels through the lowest layers of the sun's atmosphere is the goal of NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph scheduled to launch on June 26, 2013.
SUNRISE Over Sweden: Solar Observatory to Take Flight

NASA's Scientific Balloon Program successfully launched, for the second time, the largest solar telescope ever to leave ground, to observe the sun's magnetic fields.

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NASA Schedules Media Events and Coverage for New Solar Mission Launch

NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission is scheduled to launch at 7:27 p.m. PDT (10:27 p.m. EDT) Wednesday, June 26, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

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