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  • SOHO captured this image of a coronal mass ejection bursting off the left side of the image at 9:25 p.m. EDT on March 12, 2013.

    Sun Spits Out Two CMEs

    03.13.13 - A coronal mass ejection (CME) began at 8:36 p.m. EDT on March 12, 2013, and may pass by three NASA satellites: Spitzer, Kepler and Epoxi. A second CME began at 6:54 a.m. EDT on March 13, 2013 and may pass Earth.

  • Expedition 34/35 change of command ceremony

    Expedition 34 Update: March 13, 2013

    03.13.13 - Chris Hadfield took command of the station Wednesday, while three Expedition 34 crew members prepare for return to Earth on Thursday.

    › ISS Update video  |  › Change of command video
  • Veronica McGregor, Stephanie Smith and Courtney O'Connor

    Mars Curiosity Lands South by Southwest Interactive Award

    03.13.13 - The down-to-Earth persona of NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover, expressed on Twitter, Facebook, live streaming on Ustream, viral videos and the first Foursquare check-in from another planet, has captured the 2013 South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Award for best social media campaign.

  • Curiosity rover's self portrait at 'John Klein' drilling site

    NASA Mars Rover Mission Picked for Smithsonian Honor

    03.13.13 - The team in charge of successfully landing NASA's Mars rover Curiosity will receive the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's 2013 Trophy for Current Achievement.

  • Jupiter's dark hot spot in false-color

    'Hot Spots' Ride a Merry-Go-Round on Jupiter

    03.14.13 - NASA's Cassini spacecraft tracks the shifting shape of holes in Jupiter's atmosphere over time.

  • This set of images compares rocks seen by NASA's Opportunity rover and Curiosity rover at two different parts of Mars.

    NASA Rover Finds Conditions Once Suited for Ancient Life on Mars

    03.12.13 - An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA's Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes.

  • Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn, Commander Kevin Ford and Flight Engineer Chris Hadfield

    Expedition 34 Update: March 12, 2013

    03.12.13 - The station crew was busy with departure preparations for three of its crew members and performed a variety of science experiments Tuesday.

    › ISS Update video  |  › Crew timelines
  • Logo for the NASA Exploration Design Challenge

    NASA Launches Exploration Design Challenge

    03.12.13 - NASA's Exploration Design Challenge gives students from kindergarten through 12th grade the opportunity to play a unique role in the future of human spaceflight.

  • Maps of ozone concentrations over the Arctic come from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on NASA’s Aura satellite. The left image shows March 19, 2010, and the right shows the same date in 2011. March 2010 had relatively high ozone, while March 2011 has low levels.

    NASA Pinpoints Causes of 2011 Arctic Ozone Hole

    03.11.13 - A combination of extreme cold temperatures, man-made chemicals and a stagnant atmosphere were behind what became known as the Arctic ozone hole of 2011, a new NASA study finds.

  • iss034e061657 -- Commander Kevin Ford and Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin

    Expedition 34 Update: March 11, 2013

    03.11.13 - The station crew was busy with departure preps, science experiments and maintenance duties Monday after enjoying some time off over the weekend.

    › ISS Update video  |  › Crew timelines
  • Two Brown Dwarfs in Our Backyard

    Closest Star System Found in a Century

    03.11.13 - NASA's WISE mission has found the closest star system discovered since 1916 -- a pair of brown dwarfs right in our celestial backyard.

  • Rhea

    Cassini Returns Images of Battered Saturn Moon

    03.11.13 - Craters and a curious feature are visible in images of Rhea returned by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

  • The view of the sun is partially obscured by Earth as seen by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on Mar. 11, 2013, at 2:20 a.m. EDT.

    NASA's SDO Sees an Eclipse And a Transit

    03.11.13 - On Mar. 11, 2013, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory caught a rare sight on camera: the sun with both Earth and the moon passing in front of it.

  • Artist concept of Mars rover Curiosity

    Curiosity Rover's Recovery Moving Forward

    03.11.13 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity continues to move forward with assessment and recovery from a memory glitch that affected the rover's A-side computer.

  • map depicting change in northern vegetation growth over time

    Greenhouse Effect Shifts North's Growing Seasons

    03.10.13 - Vegetation growth at Earth's northern latitudes increasingly resembles lusher latitudes to the south, according to a NASA-funded study.

  • Superstorm Sandy image from Suomi NPP data

    How Climate Change Affects Extreme Weather  →

    03.05.13 - For several types of storms, global warming may prime the atmosphere to produce fewer but stronger storms.

  • The Microheater Array Boiling Experiment was conducted in the Boiling Experiment Facility, or BXF. Here, European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli, installs the BXF into the Microgravity Science Glovebox aboard the International Space Station. (NASA)

    MABE: Low-Gravity Answers on the Bubble

    03.27.13 - Exploring the cooling impact of boiling bubbles in microgravity with space station's Microheater Array Boiling Experiment (MABE) investigation.

  • White Silence, by Gabor Dvornik

    GPM "Let it Snow" Photo Contest Winners

    03.11.13 - The Global Precipitation Measurement mission is happy to announce the top ten winners of the "Let It Snow" photo competition. Thank you to everyone who submitted their best pictures of winter. From January 7th through February 4th 2013, over 1,000 photos were submitted via Flickr and Instagram. We loved all of your entries and thoroughly appreciate your participation.

  • NASA astronaut Thomas Marshburn conducts a session of the ongoing SPHERES-VERTIGO investigation. (NASA)

    ISS Research Update For The Week of Feb. 25, 2013

    03.08.13 - Expedition 34 is hard at work 200 plus miles above us! Catch this week's research highlights here.

  • Hubble image of part of spiral galaxy IC 5052

    Blue Bursts of Hot Young Stars Captured by Hubble

    03.08.13 - This image, speckled with blue, white, and yellow light, shows part of the spiral galaxy IC 5052.

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