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Hubble Catches a Side-on Spiral Streak
02.08.13 - This thin, glittering streak of stars is the spiral galaxy ESO 121-6, which lies in the southern constellation of Pictor (The Painter's Easel).
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Expedition 34 Update: Feb. 8, 2013
02.08.13 - The six-member Expedition 34 crew is making final preparations for the ISS Progress 48 undocking Saturday at 8:15 a.m. EDT.
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Robotic Refueling Demo Points To Bright Future
02.08.13 - Following six historic days of operations, NASA's Robotic Refueling Mission demonstrated remotely controlled robots could refuel satellites.
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New NASA Mission to Help Us Better Estimate Asteroid Impact Hazard
02.07.13 - According to NASA's Near Earth Object program, there are more than 1,300 potentially hazardous asteroids that have a very small chance of hitting us someday because their orbits come close to Earth's orbit. The main difficulty is obtaining sufficient observations to predict their orbits with enough certainty to find out if any of them might actually hit us at some point.
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NASA Scientists Build First-Ever Wide-Field X-ray Imager
02.07.13 - Using an emerging technology called lobster-eye optics, scientists developed an x-ray camera of sorts to study a poorly understood behavior of the solar wind.
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Strobe-Like Flashes in Suspected Binary Protostar
02.07.13 - Two of NASA's great observatories have teamed up to uncover a mysterious infant star that behaves like a strobe light.
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Israeli Students Honor Hometown Hero
02.07.13 - As NASA honored the astronauts lost on the Columbia's STS-107 mission, students from a crew member's hometown joined Day of Remembrance ceremonies.
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The Sun Produces Two CMEs
02.07.13 - In the evening of Feb. 5, 2013, the sun erupted with two coronal mass ejections or CMEs that may glance near-Earth space.
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Preparatory Drill Test Performed on Mars
02.07.13 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has produced some rock powder with its drill as the last major test before the rover's first full drilling.
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Expedition 34 Update: Feb. 7, 2013
02.07.13 - The Expedition 34 crew is preparing for cargo vehicle operations while performing ongoing maintenance and science.
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CSLM-3 Grows "Christmas Trees" in Space
03.20.13 - Researchers to gain new insights into metallic crystal growth from the CSLM-3 investigation aboard the International Space Station.
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Pacific Locked in 'La Nada' Limbo
02.06.13 - Sea-surface height data from NASA's Jason-2 satellite show the equatorial Pacific is still locked in a 'La Nada' state.
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Expedition 34 Update: Feb. 6, 2013
02.06.13 - The Kibo robotic arm inspected external experiments while the crew prepared for SpaceX, inspected safety gear and worked science.
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NASA Heliophysics Missions On Display at Aerospace@Annapolis
02.06.13 - NASA Goddard scientists headed to Annapolis on Feb. 1, 2013, for Aerospace@Annapolis, an annual overview of the aerospace industry held for the benefit of Maryland state lawmakers.
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Public Invited to Webinar on Citizen Science
02.06.13 - The public is invited to participate in a free webinar to promote citizen science that involves rain and snow measurements across the United States.
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NASA Seeks It All: High Lift, Low Drag
02.06.13 - NASA and its industry partners have been working to prove you can have your aerodynamic cake and eat it, too.
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Day of Remembrance Honors 'Ultimate Sacrifice'
02.07.13 - During NASA's annual Day of Remembrance activities at the Kennedy Space Center, employees and guests paid tribute to astronauts who perished in the conquest of space.
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VISIONS: A Successful Launch
02.07.13 - The principal investigator for VISIONS (VISualizing Ion Outflow via Neutral atom imaging during a Substorm), Goddard's Doug Rowland provided images and updates of the team preparations and the launch.
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Sector 33 Game App Goes Android
02.05.13 - Up to the challenge of playing a game where you're in control of airplanes in a piece of the nation's skies? Yup, there's an app for that.
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Space Station Bound SAGE III is Full Steam Ahead
02.22.13 - Above Earth, observations from the “A-Train" build three-dimensional images of the atmosphere. NASA’s SAGE III will supplement those satellites.