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NASA’s STEREO Detects a CME From the Sun
05.17.13 - On 5:24 a.m. EDT on May 17, 2013, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles into space.
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Mars Rover Opportunity Examines Clay Clues in Rock
05.17.13 - NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is driving to a new study area after a dramatic finish to 20 months on "Cape York" with examination of a rock intensely altered by water.
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Hubble Peers Through a Spacetime Magnifying Glass
05.17.13 - This Hubble image shows the galaxy cluster Abell S1077. The matter condensed in such clusters is so high their gravity warps the fabric of spacetime.
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Expedition 36 Update: May 17, 2013
05.17.13 - The station's Expedition 36 crew wrapped up the week with combustion and biological research while awaiting launch of three new crewmates.
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Asteroid-Sampling Mission Moves into Development
05.16.13 - NASA's first mission to sample an asteroid is moving ahead into development and testing in preparation for its launch in 2016.
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Expedition 36 Update: May 16, 2013
05.16.13 - The International Space Station's Expedition 36 crew conducted science research Thursday and reached out to fans of science fiction as well.
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NASA Data Pinpoints Glaciers' Role in Sea Level Rise
05.16.13 - 99% of all of Earth’s land ice is locked into the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. But from 2003 to 2009, the world’s other glaciers contributed just as much to sea level rise as the two ice sheets combined.
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Cubesat Berth Awarded to Gather Earth Energy Imbalance Measurements
05.16.2013 - A team of scientists has won a berth on a tiny satellite to explore one of NASA's last frontiers in climate studies: the imbalance in Earth's energy budget.
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Nine-Year-Old Mars Rover Passes 40-Year-Old Record
05.16.13 - NASA's Mars rover Opportunity now holds the record for farthest driving by a NASA vehicle on a world away from Earth, passing a mark set by an Apollo astronaut-driven rover.
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The Joint US–Russian One-Year Mission
05.16.13 - An international collaboration evaluates research protocols for candidate investigations during the planned American/Russian one year increment.
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LDCM Arrives in Final Orbit
05.15.13 - The Landsat Data Continuity Mission offers a look at Earth from space with a crisper view than our eyes alone would be capable of.
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Galaxy's Ring of Fire
05.16.13 - This ring of fire "burns, burns, burns" with young stars.
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Expedition 36 Update: May 15, 2013
05.15.13 - The Expedition 36 crew members were focused on research and science experiments aboard the station on Wednesday.
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Cassini Shapes First Global Topographic Map of Titan
05.15.13 - Scientists have used data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft to map the highs and lows of Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
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SNC Dream Chaser Testing Begins at NASA's Dryden, Langley
05.15.13 - SNC's Dream Chaser test flight craft arrived at NASA Dryden to begin tests of its flight and runway landing systems while NASA astronauts will be at Langley to fly simulations of a Dream Chaser approach and landing.
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Webb Undergoes 'Eye Surgery'
05.15.13 - in the Goddard clean room engineers worked meticulously to implant part of the eyes of the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Mobile Launcher Readied for SLS
05.15.13 - Upgraded mobile launcher will carry the Space Launch System heavy-lift vehicle to the launch pad.
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NASA Seeks High-Performance Spaceflight Computing Capabilities
05.15.13 - NASA and the Air Force are requesting research and development proposals to define the type of spacecraft computing needed for future missions.
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NASA Probe Counts Space Rock Impacts on Mars
05.15.13 - Scientists using images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have estimated that the planet is bombarded by more than 200 small asteroids or bits of comets per year forming craters at least 12.8 feet (3.9 meters) across.
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Asteroid 1998 QE2 to Sail Past Earth
05.15.13 - Asteroid 1998 QE2 will get no closer than about 3.6 million miles at time of closest approach on May 31 at 1:59 p.m. Pacific (4:59 p.m. Eastern).