Browse Archive
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Google Earth Application Maps Carbon's Course
09.21.09 - Google Earth – the digital globe on which computer users fly around the planet and zoom in on key features – is attracting scientists' attention and aiding public communication about carbon dioxide.
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Testing Materials in Space
09.17.09 - The Materials Science Research Rack allows researchers to study a variety of materials in space to improve performance on Earth.
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Satellites Could Help Keep Hungry Populations Fed
09.15.09 - Few non-scientists have ever heard of "NDVI," but this tool will play a key part in helping us to keep food on the table as future populations swell.
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James Webb Space Telescope Begins to Take Shape
09.15.09 - The Integrated Science Instrument Module structure, a major component of the James Webb Space Telescope, recently arrived for testing at Goddard's Spacecraft Systems Development and Integration Facility.
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NASA Releases Images from Refurbished Hubble
09.09.09 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in business after astronauts refurbished it in May. These first snapshots from Hubble showcase the 19-year-old telescope's new vision.
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› NASA's press release
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A Tour of the Cryosphere, Take Two
09.02.09 - In 2002, NASA created a video tour of Earth's frozen regions using satellite data. This year, NASA visualizers are taking viewers on a return trip to see what's changed over the years.
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Hurricanes and Tropical Cyclones
Get information on the latest storms, as well as images and other data from NASA.
› Hurricane Resource Page
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Warped Debris Disks Around Stars Are Blowin’ in the Wind
08.28.09 - The dust-filled disks where new planets may be forming around other stars occasionally take on some difficult-to-understand shapes.
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Orbiter in Safe Mode Increases Communication Rate
08.28.09 - Engineers for NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter project have stepped up the communication rate being received from the orbiter as an early step in the process of determining why the spacecraft spontaneously rebooted its computer on Aug. 26
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Climate Simulation Computer Becomes More Powerful
08.24.09 - More powerful computers needed to process the sophisticated computer models used in climate forecasts are now being developed at Goddard.
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Spirit Hits 2,000
08.18.09 - Today marks the 2,000th Martian day, or sol, of what was initially planned as a 90-sol mission on Mars for NASA's Spirit rover.
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NASA Launches New Technology: An Inflatable Heat Shield
08.17.09 - A successful NASA flight test Monday demonstrated how a spacecraft returning to Earth can use an inflatable heat shield to slow and protect itself as it enters the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds.
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Flares Responsible for Outsized Heat of Sun's Corona
08.14.09 - New observations made with instruments aboard Japan's Hinode satellite reveal the answer to why the Sun's corona is so darned hot.
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Braille Displays Get New Life With Artificial Muscles
08.13.09 - Research with tiny artificial muscles may yield a full-page active Braille system that can refresh automatically and come to life right beneath your fingertips.
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Space Telescopes Find Trigger-Happy Star Formation
08.12.09 - A new study from two of NASA's Great Observatories provides fresh insight into how some stars are born, along with a beautiful new image of a stellar nursery in our Milky Way galaxy.
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Mars Meteorite Yields Clues About Planet's Past
08.10.09 - NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is investigating a metallic meteorite the size of a large watermelon that is providing researchers more details about the Red Planet's environmental history.
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NASA's Kepler Spies Changing Phases on a Distant World
08.06.09 - NASA's new exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope has detected the atmosphere of a known giant gas planet, demonstrating the telescope's extraordinary scientific capabilities.
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'Block Island' Meteorite on Mars, Sol 1961
08.06.09 - Composition measurements by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity confirm that this rock on the Martian surface is an iron-nickel meteorite.
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NASA's Moon Mapper Beholds Home
08.03.09 - This image of Earth taken from 200 kilometers (124 miles) above the lunar surface was taken by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper, one of two NASA instruments onboard the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft.
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Possible Meteorite Imaged by Opportunity Rover
07.31.09 - The Opportunity rover has eyed an odd-shaped, dark rock, about 0.6 meters (2 feet) across on the surface of Mars, which may be a meteorite.