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Putting Plankton in Perspective, from Sea to Sky
07.24.09 - One researcher has used a decade's worth of NASA satellite data to revise old models of plankton blooms in the North Atlantic.
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A 21st Century-Style Return to the Moon
07.22.09 - Forty years after the first moon landing, NASA has turned its attention back to lunar missions, this time planning to stay longer.
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Cronkite Remembered for Coverage of Apollo Launches
07.17.09 - Cronkite was admired for his enthusiastic coverage of America's technological prowess, especially NASA's space missions.
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LRO Sees Apollo Landing Sites
07.17.09 - NASA's LRO spacecraft has returned images of five of the six Apollo moon landing sites.
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Astronaut Safety Gets Max Attention
07.08.09 - The Max Launch Abort System was successfully tested in a simulated pad abort test at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility.
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Space Station Marathon
07.06.09 - The International Space Station (ISS) has recently started a remarkable series of flybys over the United States.
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LRO's First Moon Images
07.02.09 - LRO has returned its first images of the lunar surface, from near the Mare Nubium region.
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NASA, Japan Release Most Complete Topography of Earth
06.29.09 - NASA and Japan released a new digital topographic map of Earth Monday that covers more of our planet than ever before.
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Astronaut Candidates
NASA has selected nine men and women for the 2009 astronaut candidate class.
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We Choose the Moon →
Celebrate the 40 Year Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing
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GOES-O Weather Satellite Launches
The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite will aid the nation's meteorologists and climate scientists, providing familiar weather pictures seen in daily newscasts in the U.S.
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Salt From Cassini Hints at Ocean in Saturn Moon
06.24.09 - For the first time, scientists working on NASA's Cassini mission have detected sodium salts in ice grains of Saturn's outermost ring.
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Five Things About LRO
06.08.09 - If you have never heard of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), here are five quick things you should know.
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Rebooting Resembles February Event
06.04.09 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is in safe mode and in communications with Earth after an unexpected rebooting of its computer.
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Forecasters: Cooler Sea Might Dampen Hurricane Season
06.01.09 - Summer soon begins in the Northern Hemisphere and, on June 1st, the Atlantic hurricane season kicks off. What can we expect?
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Mission Accomplished: Leaving Hubble Better Than Ever
05.29.09 - Take one space shuttle, seven highly trained astronauts, tons of equipment, and one legendary orbiting telescope and you have the 5.3 million-mile odyssey that was Hubble's final servicing mission.
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Aviation Safety Takes Center Stage
05.29.09 - At a black-tie event near Washington, NASA researchers were recognized for their contributions to reducing the risk of fatal commercial aircraft accidents.
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Magnetic Tremors Pinpoint Epicenter of Space Storms
05.27.09 - Using data from NASA's THEMIS mission, a team of University of Alberta researchers has pinpointed the impact epicenter of an earthbound space storm as it crashes into the atmosphere.
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NASA Studies Ozone Damage to Important Crops
05.27.09 - The U.S. soybean crop is suffering nearly $2 billion in damage a year due to rising surface ozone concentrations, a NASA-led study has concluded.
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Mars Rover Sees Variable Environment at Crater
05.21.09 - One of NASA's two Mars rovers has recorded a compelling saga of environmental changes that occurred over billions of years at a Martian crater.