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NASA to Chronicle Close Earth Flyby of Asteroid
02.13.13 - NASA Television will provide commentary starting at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST) on Friday, Feb. 15, during the close, but safe, flyby of a small near-Earth asteroid named 2012 DA14.
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NASA Partner Orbital Tests Rocket, Newest U.S. Launch Pad
02.22.13 - NASA commercial partner Orbital Sciences of Dulles, Va., successfully conducted an engine test of its Antares rocket at the nation's newest launch pad.
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NASA's Fermi Proves Supernova Remnants Produce Cosmic Rays
02.14.13 - NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope reveals the first clear-cut evidence the expanding debris of exploded stars produces some of the fastest-moving matter in the universe.
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NASA Scientists Part of Arctic Sea Ice Study
02.13.13 - NASA data and scientists contributed to a new study out of the United Kingdom that shows Arctic sea ice volume declining in recent years.
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NASA Hosts Telecon Today About Curiosity Rover
02.20.13 - NASA will host a media teleconference at noon PST (3 p.m. EST) today, Feb. 20, to provide an update on the Mars rover Curiosity mission.
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Expedition 34 Update: Feb. 13, 2013
02.13.13 - The International Space Station's Expedition 34 crew unloaded cargo from one cargo craft Wednesday while preparing for the arrival of another.
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National Space Club Honors Mars Curiosity
02.13.13 - NASA's Mars Curiosity rover/Mars Science Laboratory and its team will receive a trio of National Space Club awards.
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NASA Satellites Find Freshwater Losses in Middle East
02.12.13 - A new study using data from a pair of gravity-measuring NASA satellites finds that large parts of the arid Middle East region lost freshwater reserves rapidly during the past decade.
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New Doppler Radar Wind Profiler Installed
2.12.13 - NASA is replacing decades-old wind measurement equipment with upgraded Doppler radar near the Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility.
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JPL to Lead U.S. Science Team for Dark Energy Mission
02.12.13 - The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected three NASA-nominated science teams to participate in their planned Euclid mission, including one team led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
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NASA Goddard Team to Participate in Dark Energy Mission
02.12.13 - The European Space Agency (ESA) selected three NASA-nominated science teams to participate in their planned Euclid mission, including one led by Goddard.
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Expedition 34 Update: Feb. 12, 2013
02.12.13 - The station's Expedition 34 crew focused Tuesday on conducting experiments and opening the hatch to a newly arrived Russian space freighter.
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Rare Explosion May Have Created Youngest Black Hole
02.13.13 - New data from Chandra suggests a highly distorted supernova remnant may contain the most recent black hole formed in the Milky Way galaxy.
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LRO Featured in Journal Special Edition
02.12.13 - Scientific observations made by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) are the subject of a special edition of Journal of Geophysical Research Planets.
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Year Three: NASA SDO Mission Highlights
02.11.13 - In its third year in space, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has also offered several new, unexpected doors to scientific inquiry.
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Russian Cargo Craft Docks to Station
02.11.13 - The ISS Progress 50 cargo craft docked with the International Space Station at 3:35 p.m. EST Monday.
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Mars Rock Takes Unusual Form
02.11.13 - NASA's Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a flat, veiny rock on Mars and collect a sample from its interior.
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Landsat 5 Sets Guinness Record
02.10.13 - Landsat 5 sets the new Guinness World Records title for Longest-Operating Earth Observation Satellite.
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NASA X: IRVE-3 A New Way to Land on Planets
02.09.13 - Researchers have developed a revolutionary new way to land on other planets.
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IRVE-3 Launch Highlights
02.09.13 - A quick look at the highlights of the development and successful launch of IRVE-3.