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Greenland's Mega Canyon
- Published_at:2013-08-29
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- description: Hidden for all of human history, a 460 mile long canyon has been discovered below Greenland's ice sheet. Using radar data from NASA's Operation IceBridge and other airborne campaigns, scientists led by a team from the University of Bristol found the...
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NASA | From the Cockpit: The Best of IceBridge Arctic '13
- Published_at:2013-08-16
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- description: The views from the cockpit of NASA's P-3B aircraft on an Operation IceBridge campaign are truly stunning. The mission doesn't travel to both ends of the Earth for the scenery of course -- the airborne mission is there to collect radar, laser...
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NASA | NPP Sees Aftermath of the Chelyabinsk Meteor
- Published_at:2013-08-14
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- description: A meteor weighing 10,000 metric tons exploded only 23km above the city of Chelyabinsk in Russia on February 15, 2013. Unlike previous such events, this time scientists had the highly sensitive OMPS instrument on NPP to deliver unprecedented data and...
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NASA | Happy Birthday, Curiosity!
- Published_at:2013-08-05
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- description: NASA's Curiosity rover celebrates its Martian birthday on August 5 (PDT), the day that it landed on Mars. In honor of this special ocassion, engineers at Goddard Space Flight Center are using the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument to "sing"...
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NASA | IBEX Provides First View of the Solar System's Tail
- Published_at:2013-07-10
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- description: NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, recently mapped the boundaries of the solar system's tail, called the heliotail. By combining observations from the first three years of IBEX imagery, scientists have mapped out a tail that shows a...
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NASA | The Bedrock Beneath
- Published_at:2013-06-04
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- description: Our understanding of what lies beneath the world's biggest ice sheet has taken another leap forward. In this video we strip away Antarctic ice to reveal a new, and much more detailed map of the bedrock below. This map, called Bedmap2, was compiled by...
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NASA | A Swift Tour of the Nearest Galaxies in UV Light
- Published_at:2013-06-03
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- description: Astronomers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and the Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pa., have used NASA's Swift satellite to create the most detailed surveys of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, the two...
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NASA | Fermi's Close Call with a Soviet Satellite
- Published_at:2013-04-30
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- description: NASA scientists don't often learn that their spacecraft is at risk of crashing into another satellite. But when Julie McEnery, the project scientist for NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, checked her email on March 29, 2012, she found herself...
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NASA | SDO: Three Years of Sun in Three Minutes
- Published_at:2013-04-22
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- description: In the three years since it first provided images of the sun in the spring of 2010, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has had virtually unbroken coverage of the sun's rise toward solar maximum, the peak of solar activity in its regular 11-year...
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NASA | Fiery Looping Rain on the Sun
- Published_at:2013-02-20
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- description: Eruptive events on the sun can be wildly different. Some come just with a solar flare, some with an additional ejection of solar material called a coronal mass ejection (CME), and some with complex moving structures in association with changes in...
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NASA | Earth at Night
- Published_at:2012-12-05
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- description: In daylight our big blue marble is all land, oceans and clouds. But the night - is electric. This view of Earth at night is a cloud-free view from space as acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership Satellite (Suomi NPP). A joint...
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NASA | Active Region on the Sun Emits Another Flare
- Published_at:2012-10-23
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- description: The sun emitted a significant solar flare on Oct. 22, 2012, peaking at 11:17 p.m. EDT. The flare came from an active region on the left side of the sun that has been numbered AR 1598, which has already been the source of a number of weaker flares....
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NASA | Magnificent Eruption in Full HD
- Published_at:2012-09-05
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- description: On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. The coronal mass ejection, or CME, traveled away from the sun at over 900 miles per second. This...
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NASA | SDO's Ultra-high Definition View of 2012 Venus Transit
- Published_at:2012-06-06
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- tags: Scott Wiessinger, Venus Transit, Transit of Venus, Venus, Transit, Sun, solar, NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Goddard, SDO, Solar Dynamics Observatory, heliophysics, space, planets, ultraviolet, light, atmosphere
- description: Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the sun. During its five-year mission, it will examine the sun's atmosphere, magnetic field and also provide a better...
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NASA | Sun Sends Out X6.9 Class Solar Flare
- Published_at:2011-08-09
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- description: On August 9, 2011 beginning at 3:48 AM EDT, the sun emitted an Earth-directed X6.9 flare, as measured by the NOAA GOES satellite. These gigantic bursts of radiation cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to harm humans on the ground, however they can...
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