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NASA-Supported Robotics Teams Advance to Championship
04.09.12 - High school teams from the San Francisco Bay area demonstrated engineering, electronics and programming skills as they designed and built robots.
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World's Greatest Piggyback Ride
04.10.12 - Imagine flying from Florida to D.C. with nowhere to sit, no A/C -- not even a bathroom. NASA kept two 747s set up this way on purpose.
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A Spiral Galaxy in Hydra
04.06.12 - This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 4980, a spiral galaxy in the southern constellation of Hydra.
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Mysteries of the Sun . . . Explained in Video
04.06.12 - NASA has released five new videos called "Mysteries of the Sun" that describe the science of the sun and its effects on the solar system and Earth.
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SDO/STEREO Spot Something New On the Sun
04.09.12 - Scientists find giant plumes on the sun, newly named "coronal cells" that are over 18,000 miles across, looking like candlesticks on a birthday cake, and might help explain coronal holes.
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Texas Storm System in 3-D
04.05.12 - NASA's TRMM satellite gathered data above the Texas storm system on April 3, providing a 3-D view of rain intensity and vertical distribution.
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Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb-Emission Sounder (SMILES)
The main scientific objective of the SMILES mission is to study the recovery and stability of the stratospheric ozone, also known as the ozone layer.
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T-38 Aircraft Flyover Washington Metro Area April 5
04.03.12 - NASA, in cooperation with the FAA, will conduct training and photographic flights on Thursday, April 5, over the Washington, D.C. area.
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Students Ready to Compete in 2012 Great Moonbuggy Race
04.06.12 - Approximately 100 global teams will compete at NASA's 19th Great Moonbuggy Race, April 13-14, at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala.
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GOES Satellite Movie Tracked Tornadic Texas Trouble
04.04.12 - A powerful weather system moved through eastern Texas and dropped at least 15 tornadoes in the Dallas suburbs. This animation of GOES-13 satellite data shows the storms.
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Dark Heart of a Cosmic Collision
04.04.12 - The cataclysmic history of a giant galaxy is on display in a new image that combines infrared and X-ray observations.
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12-Mile-High Martian Dust Devil Caught in Act
04.04.12 - A Martian dust devil roughly 12 miles high (20 kilometers) was captured whirling its way along the Amazonis Planitia region of Northern Mars on March 14.
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Cosmic 'Leaf Blower' Robs Galaxy of Star-Making Fuel
04.03.12 - Supernova explosions and the jets of a monstrous black hole are scattering a galaxy's star-making gas like a cosmic leaf blower.
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SLS Avionics Test Paves Way for Full-Scale Booster
04.02.12 - NASA has completed the first test of solid rocket booster avionics for the Space Launch System, America's next heavy-lift launch vehicle.
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Fermi Provides Dark Matter Insights
04.02.12 - An analysis of two years' worth of data from Fermi is helping narrow down the list of what dark matter could be.
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SLS Completes Step One of Combined Milestone Reviews
03.30.12 - America's next heavy-lift launch vehicle -- the Space Launch System -- is one step closer to its first launch in 2017.
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Q&A: Studying How Debris Influences Glaciers
04.02.12 - NASA glaciologist Kimberly Casey has visited six remote glaciers around the world to study what satellites can tell us about particulate pollution on glaciers, and how these particulates impact glacier melting rates.
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Look Out for Those Rocks!
04.01.12 - Prototype space lander to test hazard-ridden landings at Kennedy.
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Hubble Spies Edge-on Spiral Galaxy
03.30.12 - NGC 2683 is a spiral galaxy seen almost edge-on, giving it the shape of a classic science fiction spaceship.
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The F-1 Engine Powered Apollo Into History
03.30.12 - The F-1 engine boosted the Saturn V first stage that landed humans on the moon during NASA's Apollo program during the 1960s and 1970s.