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Hubble Finds Birth Certificate of Oldest Known Star
03.07.13 - This 'Methuselah star,' cataloged as HD 140283, has been known about for more than a century because of its fast motion across the sky.
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NASA Provides Satellite Views of Nor'easter
03.07.13 - The merging of two low pressure areas into a storm on March 6 brought winter weather advisories and warnings to the Mid-Atlantic.
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Expedition 34 Update: March 7, 2013
03.07.13 - The Expedition 34 crew participated in research and robotics Thursday and performed maintenance on part of the station’s air revitalization system.
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NASA Briefing on Curiosity's Analysis of Mars Rock
03.07.13 - NASA will hold a news conference at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT), Tuesday, March 12, to discuss the Curiosity rover's analysis of the first sample of rock powder ever collected on Mars.
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NASA Helps See Buried Mars Flood Channels in 3-D
03.07.13 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has provided images allowing scientists for the first time to create a 3-D reconstruction of ancient water channels below the Martian surface.
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Listening for the Boom and Rattle of Supersonic Flight
03.06.13 - NASA engineers test people's reactions to simulated sonic booms to help develop technologies that might allow supersonic passenger jets to fly over land.
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Expedition 34 Update: March 6, 2013
03.06.13 - Activities aboard the International Space Station ramp up as Expedition 34 prepares to come home and Expedition 35 trains for launch.
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Ride's Flight Paved Inspirational Path for Burnett
03.06.13 - Josephine Burnett grew up devoted to the idea of a career with the space program. Today, she is director of ISS Ground Processing and Research at Kennedy.
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Research May Unlock Secret of Alzheimer's
03.05.13 - A space experiment could show how proteins collect in a brain to cause Alzheimer's and other diseases say scientists at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
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Comet to Make Close Flyby of Red Planet in October 2014
03.05.13 - Latest observations indicate comet 2013 A1 will pass within 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers) of Mars on Oct. 19, 2014.
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NASA Wallops Recovery Continues from Hurricane Sandy
03.05.13 - Hurricane Sandy came ashore in northern New Jersey Oct. 29, 2012, and as the powerful storm made its way along the east coast it brought damage to NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va.
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Gravitational Lens Creates Space Invader 'Cartoon'
03.05.13 - A phenomenon called gravitational lensing gives this spiral galaxy the look of a simulated alien from the 1970s "Space Invaders!" arcade game.
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Expedition 34 Update: March 5, 2013
03.05.13 - With Dragon's pressurized cargo hold fully unloaded, the station's Expedition 34 crew focused on departure preps for three crew members.
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Herschel to Complete Its Mission Soon
03.05.13 - The Herschel space observatory is expected to exhaust its supply of liquid helium coolant in the coming weeks, after spending more than three years studying the cool universe and surpassing the expectations of the international team of scientists involved.
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ACE: Stacking the Deck in Our Favor
03.06.13 - The Advanced Colloids Experiment is designed to help researchers understand how to optimize stabilizers to extend product shelf life.
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'Goody Bag' Filled With Supplies Arrives on Station
03.06.13 - A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft has delivered a "goody bag" to the crew aboard the International Space Station. But it's not filled with treats.
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Curiosity Rover's Recovery on Track
03.04.13 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has transitioned from precautionary "safe mode" to active status on the path of recovery from a memory glitch last week.
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A Window into Europa's Ocean Right at the Surface
03.05.13 - A study partially funded by NASA finds evidence of ocean salt on Europa's surface.
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NASA Transfers Operational Control of Suomi NPP to NOAA
03.04.13 - The Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite, a partnership between NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), transitioned to NOAA operational organization control.
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Goddard Lab Works at Extreme Edge of Cosmic Ice
02.27.13 - Goddard scientists turn ice into tiny test tubes to learn how chemicals involved in life might survive in space.