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NASA's Spitzer Gets Sneak Peek Inside Comet Holmes
10.13.08 - When comet Holmes unexpectedly erupted in 2007, professional and amateur astronomers around the world turned their telescopes toward the spectacular event.
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Ochoa Honored as Hispanic 2008 Engineer of the Year
10.10.08 - Johnson Space Center Deputy Director Ellen Ochoa has been chosen as the first woman to receive the Engineer of the Year award by the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference.
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NASA's Mars Odyssey Shifting Orbit for Extended Mission
10.09.08 - The longest-serving of six spacecraft now studying Mars is up to new tricks for a third two-year extension of its mission to examine the most Earthlike of known foreign planets.
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Phoenix Digs and Analyzes Soil as Darkness Gathers
10.08.08 - As fall approaches Mars' northern plains, NASA's Phoenix Lander is busy digging into the Red Planet's soil and scooping it into its onboard science laboratories for analysis.
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Reightler: Human Space Exploration Is Man's Destiny
10.07.08 - When President John F. Kennedy pitched to send Americans to the moon, he said, "We go … not because it's easy, but because it's hard." It's still hard, said Ken Reightler to a colloquium audience at NASA Langley on Tuesday.
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Apollo Heat Shield Helps New Crew Vehicle Design
10.07.08 - NASA scientists developing the next generation of exploration vehicles and heat shields for NASA's Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle experienced "Christmas in July" when they uncrated the heat shields used on the Apollo missions some 35 years ago.
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Rising Arctic Storm Activity Sways Sea Ice, Climate
10.06.08 - NASA study shows that the rising frequency and intensity of arctic storms over the last half century directly accelerated the rate of arctic sea ice drift which is a harbinger of climate change.
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Sensors Advance Lunar Landing Project
10.02.08 - NASA is developing technologies that will allow lunar landers to automatically identify and navigate to the location of a safe landing site while detecting landing hazards during the final descent to the surface.
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NASA Spacecraft Finds the Sun is Not a Perfect Sphere
10.02.08 - Scientists using NASA’s RHESSI spacecraft have measured the roundness of the sun with unprecedented precision and found that it is not a perfect sphere.
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Infrared Echoes Give Spitzer a Supernova Flashback
10.01.08 - Hot spots near the shattered remains of an exploded star are echoing the blast's first moments, say scientists using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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Diversity in Galaxies
09.30.08 - There's an old saying in astronomy: Galaxies are like people. They're only normal until you get to know them.
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Phoenix Sees Falling Snow, Data Suggest Liquid Past
09.29.08 - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has detected snow falling from Martian clouds. Spacecraft soil experiments also have provided evidence of past interaction between minerals and liquid water, processes that occur on Earth.
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Sunspots Pump Plasma Into Interplanetary Space
09.29.08 - Scientists find that dim areas at the edges of active sunpot regions may hold the key to the sun's energy processes.
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Powerful Supernova Caught by Web
09.25.08 - One of the nearest supernovas in the last 25 years has been identified over a decade after it exploded.
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Arctic Saw Fastest August Sea Ice Retreat on Record
09.26.08 - NASA data are showing that for a four-week period in August 2008, sea ice melted faster during that period than ever before.
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Carbon-rich Molecules in Meteors May Be Origin of Life
09.24.08 - Tons, perhaps tens of tons, of carbon molecules in dust particles and meteorites fall on Earth daily. Researchers have noticed that most meteorite carbon are polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, the most common carbon-rich compound in the universe.
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Cool Summer, Warm Future
09.23.08 - Despite a moderate summer, the heat is rising in Southern California.
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NASA's Mars Rover to Head Toward Bigger Crater
09.22.08 - NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is setting its sights on a crater more than 20 times larger than its home for the past two years.
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Taback: Godfather to Viking
09.22.08 - Project scientist Gerry Soffen called Israel Taback the "father of the Mars Viking Lander," parentage that Taback rejected with his usual wry wit. "It didn't need a father. More of a godfather."
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NASA's Swift Spots Farthest Gamma-Ray Burst
09.19.08 - NASA's Swift satellite has found the most distant gamma-ray burst ever detected. The blast arose from a star 12.8 billion light-years away.