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2013/05/23 15:31
2013/05/23 15:31
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For decades, Landsat satellites have documented the desiccation of the Aral Sea in Central Asia. Once one of the largest seas in the world, it shrunk to a tenth of its original volume after Russia...
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2013/05/23 01:57
2013/05/23 01:57
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The world’s longest-running spacecraft series is the Explorer series, which began with the launch of Explorer 1, the first United States Earth satellite, on 31 January 1958. The U.S. Army carried out...
2013/05/22 17:31
2013/05/22 17:31
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When it comes to natural disasters, survivors often ask why and how such a thing could have occurred. In the case of the tornado that struck and devastated Moore, Oklahoma this week, those questions...
2013/05/21 21:32
2013/05/21 21:32
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IRIS will help advance scientists understanding of the interface region, which is an area in the lower atmosphere of the sun where most ultraviolet emissions are generated. Emissions from this area...
2013/05/21 18:44
2013/05/21 18:44
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The pulsar-on-a-table, known as the Goddard X-ray Navigation Laboratory Testbed, was built to test and validate a next-generation X-ray navigation technology to be demonstrated on a dual-use...
2013/05/20 14:35
2013/05/20 14:35
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Todd Halvorson, Florida Today CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA's Mars Opportunity rover is America's new champion for distance driving on another planet, and the enduring robotic geologist might set a...
2013/05/20 06:49
2013/05/20 06:49
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Launch Planned For 2016, With Samples Returning In 2023 NASA's first mission to sample an asteroid is moving ahead into development and testing in preparation for its launch in 2016. The...
2013/05/19 13:32
2013/05/19 13:32
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On May 17, the sun unleashed an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME) at 5:24 a.m. EDT sending billions of tons of solar particles into space. The matter from this CME will likely reach Earth in...
2013/05/18 05:55
2013/05/18 05:55
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Robert William Bryant, 87, beloved husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather, died May 15, 2013, at his home in Shepherdstown after a courageous two year battle with cancer and Parkinson's...
2013/05/17 22:48
2013/05/17 22:48
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NASA has given final approval for a billion-dollar mission that will visit one of the most potentially dangerous asteroids to Earth, collect samples, and then bring it back home for...
2013/05/17 18:41
2013/05/17 18:41
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The first tropical storm of the Eastern Pacific hurricane season was short-lived. Satellite imagery revealed that Tropical Storm Alvin became a remnant low pressure area 36 hours after it was...
2013/05/17 16:51
2013/05/17 16:51
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The team operating NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity received confirmation in a transmission from Mars today that the rover drove 263 feet (80 meters) on Thursday, bringing Opportunity's total...
2013/05/16 21:42
2013/05/16 21:42
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NASA's In-Space Validation of Earth Science Technologies ("InVEST" for short) program has funded a team led by Lars Dyrud, a scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in...
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2013/05/16 21:39
2013/05/16 21:39
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NASA's Aqua satellite and NOAA's GOES-15 satellite captured imagery of the Eastern Pacific Ocean's first named tropical storm, Alvin. Aqua and GOES-15 provided imagery of Alvin that provided a look at...
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2013/05/16 13:31
2013/05/16 13:31
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Much like the inside of an operating room, in the clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., engineers worked meticulously to implant part of the eyes of the James Webb Space...
2013/05/15 21:29
2013/05/15 21:29
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Federal agencies must creatively and aggressively recruit science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medical employees to keep up with rising demand and competition from the private sector,...
2013/05/15 19:39
2013/05/15 19:39
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Tropical Cyclone Mahasen has been strengthening and expanding as it moves through the northern Bay of Bengal for a landfall on Thursday, May 16. NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the cyclone as it was...
2013/05/14 21:39
2013/05/14 21:39
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A Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) instrument designed to study the Earth's thermosphere is part of a satellite mission that NASA has selected to move forward into development (Phase B), with launch...
2013/05/13 21:35
2013/05/13 21:35
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A graduate of Reading High School wants students to know a truly "out of this world career" is within reach. Charles Morrison is an IT analyst for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. He...
2013/05/13 17:40
2013/05/13 17:40
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The first tropical cyclone in the Northern Indian Ocean this season has been getting better organized as seen in NASA satellite imagery. Tropical Cyclone Mahasen is projected to track north through...
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