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Northwestern and central Argentina are subject to frequent dust storms, such as this one viewed in November 2011 from the ISS over South America. 
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Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), are preparung a mission that could launch in 2020 and deliver the landers to Europa in 2026 to investigate whether life could ever have existed on the huge moon, which likely hosts an...
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When the moon passes through the Earth's shadow, it causes the moon to look very unusual for a short period of time. This event is called a lunar eclipse, and it occurs roughly twice a year. Learn more about how lunar eclipses work in this video!
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NASA's Dawn probe, now orbiting Vesta in the asteroid belt, has found some surprising things on the giant asteroid--things that have prompted one researcher to declare Vesta "the smallest terrestrial planet."
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This image, taken December 6, 2011, combines two separate views of the giant asteroid Vesta obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft. The images were taken by Dawn's framing camera.
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Figuring out how to sustain the world’s growing population is a challenge that satellites can help resolve.
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In late November, NASA’s Curiosity, the world's biggest extraterrestrial rover, began rocketing toward Mars (see photos of the launch here) in search of any hint that the red planet might have provided a home for microscopic life.
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A NASA probe came closer to Pluto than any other vessel in the history of space travel on 2 December.
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Expedition 30 Ask the Crew Submit your questions to the Expedition 30 crew on the International Space Station.
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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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Watch, download or share the latest NASA videos, including launches and landings, mission operations, science updates and animations.
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From lunar landers and rovers to satellites space stations, NASA's engineers built super-cute scale models that will melt your heart. Here are some of our favorites.
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Here's an amazing time-lapse created using NASA's Earth Observatory photographs of our planet. It spans an entire year, and shows how lands change with the passing of seasons. You can download a highe...
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NASA announced that Kepler has uncovered 1,094 more potential planets, twice the number it previously had been tracking, including more than 500 planets found to orbit stars beyond our solar system. IThe newly discovered Kepler 22-B is the smallest and the best positioned to have liquid water on its surface – among the ingredients necessary for life on Earth. It is 2.4 times the size of the Earth, putting it in a class known as “super-Earths”.
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New research shows shrubs and other plants infiltrating the countryside and advancing northward in Quebec.
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During the December 2011 lunar eclipse, scientists will be able to get a unique view of the moon. While the sun is blocked by the Earth, LRO's Diviner instrument will take the temperature on the lunar surface. Since different rock sizes cool at different rates, scientists will be able to infer the size and density of rocks on the moon.
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SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft will make its first flight to the International Space Station Feb. 7, 2012. It will be the second flight of the private spaceship designed to carry cargo and crew to space.
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In a report issued by the agency's inspector general on Thursday, NASA concedes that more than 500 pieces of moon rocks, meteorites, comet chunks and other space material were stolen or have been missing since 1970. That includes 218 moon samples that were stolen and later returned and about two dozen moon rocks and chunks of lunar soil that were reported lost last year.
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NASA's better days can appear long past to the public. The U.S. space agency that once landed a man on the moon now wrestles with questions of existential crisis after retiring its space shuttle fleet this year.
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Ancient Meso-American civilizations of the Mayans and Aztecs likely amplified droughts in the Yucatan and southern Mexico by clearing rainforests to make room for pastures and farmland.
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NASA’s Kepler mission has spotted the first possibility for a planet to escape to if it turns out the Mayans were right about 2012.
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In one of the buildings at NASA's Ames Research Center, within walking distance of the Googleplex, elite groups of very smart people are trying to prepare for a future so advanced we can't even predict what it'll look like. This Singularity University is a hub for forward-thinking experts to learn about robotics, artificial intelligence, and other key technologies of the next century. Via Frederic Emam-Zade Gerardino
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New images of Enceladus, the sixth largest moon around Saturn, reveal grooves in the moon's south polar region and unexpectured textures in the ice on the surface.
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An RL-10 rocket booster – the kind that just lifted the Martian Space Laboratory on its trip to the Red Planet – has been confiscated by NASA after being offered for sale on the Internet.
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NASA is studying how fire behaves in space, performing hundreds of experiments aboard the International Space Station. The goal is to improve spaceships' fire-suppression systems, and perhaps bring some practical benefits down to Earth.
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November 14, 2018 2:52 PM
This shows how fire burns in space compared to earth!
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