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NASA Study of Clays Suggests Watery Mars Underground
11.02.11 - A new NASA study suggests if life ever existed on Mars, the longest lasting habitats were most likely below the Red Planet's surface.
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Hinode's First Light . . . and Five More Years
11.01.11 - Five years after its instruments turned on, Hinode has provided some of the highest resolution images of the sun the world had ever seen -- as well as help solve such mysteries as why the sun's atmosphere is a thousand times hotter than its surface.
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Halloween Weekend Snow Paints a Ghostly Picture in the U.S. Northeast
10.31.11 - A late October snowstorm from a Nor'easter blanketed the eastern U.S. from West Virginia to Maine and broke records the weekend before Halloween Monday
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What Goes Up Must Come Down
10.31.11 - An Orion media day gave NASA the opportunity to show off its researchers and Hydro Impact Basin facility.
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NASA Studies Ways to Make 'Tractor Beams' Real
10.31.11 - A team of NASA scientists has won funding to study how this sci-fi technology (moving objects with laser light) could be brought into reality.
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Boeing to Build Commercial Spacecraft at Kennedy
10.31.11 - In an innovative agreement that will create new jobs, NASA today announced a partnership with Space Florida to occupy, use and modify facilities at Kennedy Space Center.
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Suomi NPP
The mission of Suomi NPP is to foster the understanding, monitoring and prediction of long-term climate change and short-term weather conditions
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Dryden Gave a LIFT for Shuttle's Return To Flight
10.28.11 - Flight tests on NASA Dryden's F-15B research test bed helped model thermal protection system foam loss from the shuttle’s external fuel tank.
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A Crack in the Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf →
10.27.11 - NASA's IceBridge team has seen a large -- and unexpected -- crack running across Pine Island Glacier, one of the largest and fastest-moving glaciers in Antarctica.
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Astronomers Pin Down Galaxy Collision Rate
10.27.11 - The merger rate is one of the fundamental measures of galaxy evolution, yielding clues to how galaxies bulked up over time through encounters with other galaxies.
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Delta II Poised to Launch NPP
10.27.11 - A technological trailblazer is poised to lift off from a California launch pad to take a place in space to show us what is happening on Earth.
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TIRS Instrument Completes First Round of Thermal Vacuum Testing
11.01.11 - The Thermal Infrared Sensor that will fly on the next Landsat satellite completed its first round of thermal vacuum testing at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
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CCP and Excalibur Sign Space Act Agreement
10.26.11 - Agreement part of the Commercial Crew Development Round 2 activities.
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Solar Cycle Primer
10.27.11 - The number of sunspots on the sun increase and decrease over time in a regular, approximately 11-year cycle. More sunspots mean increased solar activity, when great blooms of radiation and particles blast off the sun.
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Stories of Missions Past: Early Explorers
10.26.11 - Not only was Explorer 1 the first US satellite launched into space, it was the first in a long line of scientific workhorses that revolutionized our understanding of the universe.
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NASA Says Comet Elenin Gone and Should Be Forgotten
10.25.11 - Latest indications are this relatively small comet has broken into even smaller, even less significant, chunks of dust and ice.
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'Pacman' Nebula Gets Some Teeth
10.26.11 - When viewed in infrared light by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, the "Pacman" nebula looks hungrier than usual.
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NASA in Final Preparations for Nov. 8 Asteroid Flyby
10.26.11 - A meteor is the most probable cause of a bright, colorful fireball witnessed by people in a wide swath of the southwestern United States.
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Beautiful Red Aurora
10.25.11 - A coronal mass ejection (CME) shot off the sun late in the evening of October 21 and hit Earth on October 24 at about 2 PM ET causing red aurora in the U.S.
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STEREO Celebrates Five Years
10.25.11 - On Oct. 25, 2006 STEREO launched to do something never done before: see the entire sun simultaneously.