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  • Astronaut Chris Hadfield

    Expedition 34 Update: Jan. 18, 2013

    01.18.13 - Inside the International Space Station the six-member Expedition 34 crew is wrapping up a busy week of science research and ongoing maintenance.

    › ISS Update Video  |  › Crew timelines
  • Layers with carbonate content inside McLaughlin Crater

    Martian Crater May Once Have Held Groundwater-Fed Lake

    01.20.13 - A NASA spacecraft is providing new evidence of a wet underground environment on Mars that adds to an increasingly complex picture of the Red Planet's early evolution.

  • Model of the Mars rover Curiosity

    Ms. Curiosity Goes to Washington

    01.18.13 - The people of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission have been named winners of a 2013 Space Foundation award for advancing exploration of space.

  • Astronaut Don Pettit performs Ultrasound Eye Imaging during Expedition 30, as part of the continued research involving vision changes experienced by some astronauts during long-duration stays in microgravity. This research is similar to the Advanced Diagnostic Ultrasound in Microgravity (ADUM) investigation previously completed on the station, one of the many investigations students researched for the ISS Science Challenge.. (NASA)

    Students Teach the World About Space Station Science

    01.18.13 - What an inspired idea -- let students teach and share with others the interesting research astronauts do on the International Space Station.

  • Orion service module

    New Agreement Signed for Orion Service Module

    01.16.13 - NASA signed an agreement for the European Space Agency to provide a service module for the Orion spacecraft’s Exploration Mission-1 in 2017.

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  • a spiral galaxy streaks across the upper right, flanked by a bright star lower left

    Hubble Focuses on "the Great Attractor"

    01.18.13 - Hubble captured a busy patch of space, scattered with many nearby stars. The field also has numerous galaxies in the background.

  • Amazon rainforests data measured by NASA satellites

    Study Finds Severe Climate Jeopardizing Amazon Forest

    01.17.13 - An area of the Amazon rainforest twice the size of California continues to suffer from the effects of a megadrought that began in 2005, finds a new NASA-led study.

  • image of the Mona Lisa superimposed over a view of the moon

    NASA Beams Mona Lisa to the Moon

    01.17.13 - NASA beamed an image of the Mona Lisa to the LRO spacecraft as part of the first demo of laser communication with a satellite at the moon.

  • Astronaut Chris Hadfield

    Expedition 34 Update: Jan. 17, 2013

    01.17.13 - The station boosted its orbit Wednesday when a docked cargo craft fired its engines and the Robotic Refueling Mission resumed its activities.

    › ISS Update Video  |  › Crew timelines
  • A new (left) and an old (right) crater on Titan

    Titan Gets a Dune "Makeover"

    01.17.13 - Saturn's largest moon may look much younger than it really is because its craters are getting erased.

  • A Ball Aerospace technician inspects the Webb Telescope Aft Optics Subsystem during mirror integration activities. The Aft Optics bench, made of lightweight beryllium like the mirrors, holds Webb's tertiary and fine steering mirrors.

    Webb Telescope Team Completes Optical Milestone

    01.16.13 - The performance testing for the aft-optics subsystem (AOS) was recently completed by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Redondo Beach, Calif.

  • Lauren White is turning on the valve that will send ocean water through a sample of material mimicking volcanic crust to see if organic molecules can be detected in the outflow

    Bubbling up Organics in an Ocean Vent Simulator

    01.16.13 - This week, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are running an experiment simulating a deep ocean hydrothermal vent to test theories about the origins of life.

  • Robotic Refueling Mission

    Expedition 34 Update: Jan. 16, 2013

    01.16.13 - The Canadian Space Agency has cleared the Canadarm2 to continue work on the Robotic Refueling Mission.

    › ISS Update Video  |  › Crew timelines
  • During a test phase for the PODEX experiment, engineers at Dryden loaded the Research Scanning Polarimeter into its superpod for placement under the wing of the ER-2 aircraft.

    PODEX Experiment to Reshape Future of Atmospheric Science

    01.16.13 - David Starr, project scientist of the PODEX experiment, discusses a new class of instruments that could reshape the next generation of atmospheric science.

  • NASA Airborne Mission Climbs to Stratospheric Height

    01.16.13 - Today, NASA will deploy the first experimental flight of a multi-year airborne science campaign.

  • Global map showing average thermal absorption of ozone

    NASA Ozone Study May Benefit Air Standards, Climate

    01.16.13 - A new NASA-led study finds that when it comes to combating global warming caused by emissions of ozone-forming chemicals, location matters.

  • 2012 global temperature change map

    NASA Finds 2012 Sustained Long-Term Climate Warming Trend

    01.15.13 - NASA scientists say 2012 was the ninth warmest of any year since 1880, continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures.

  • This view shows the patch of veined, flat-lying rock selected as the first drilling site for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity.

    NASA Mars Rover Preparing to Drill Into First Martian Rock

    01.15.13 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is driving toward a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red Planet.

  • High-Resolution Self-Portrait by Curiosity Rover Arm Camera

    Mars Rover Curiosity's Team to Receive Space Foundation Award

    01.15.13 - The people of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission have been named winners of a 2013 Space Foundation award for advancing exploration of space.

  • Exhibitors from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida display test models of biological research equipment for the space station. (ASGSR/Janet Powers)

    Expanding Space Research Scope Evident at Conference

    01.16.13 - Scientists, engineers and students shared research, findings and -- most importantly -- questions about how space changes things.

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