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Wed, 06/08/2011 - 16:11 by NeelamGoswami
An unusual solar storm could hit Earth in the next 24 hours, warns NASA. According to the U.S. space agency, the sun has unleashed a medium-sized solar flare early yesterday morning (June 7, 2011), which could cause some disruptions to satellite communications and power grids on Earth within a day or so.
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Tue, 10/20/2009 - 02:57 by surajdogra
Moffett Field, Calif. -- The U.S. space agency says three teams claimed a total of $750,000 in prizes at this year's Lunar Regolith Excavation Challenge.
NASA said this year marks the first time in the competition's three-year history that any team qualified for a cash prize.
"After two days of intense competition hosted at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., organizers conferred first place prize of $500,000 to Paul's Robotics of Worcester, Mass.," NASA announced. "Terra Engineering of Gardena, Calif., was a three-time returning competitor and was awarded second place prize of $150,000, and Team Braundo of Rancho Palos Verde, Calif., took the third place of $100,000 as a first-time competitor."
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Fri, 10/16/2009 - 01:39 by surajdogra
Pasadena, Calif. -- The U.S. space agency says scientists have made the first comprehensive sky map of our solar system and its location in the Milky Way galaxy.
NASA said the map was made possible by data collected by its Interstellar Boundary Explorer spacecraft known as IBEX. Officials said the map will change the way researchers view and study the interaction between our galaxy and sun.
"The sky map was produced with data that two detectors on the spacecraft collected during six months of observations," NASA said. "The detectors measured and counted particles scientists refer to as energetic neutral atoms (that) are created in an area of our solar system known as the interstellar boundary region.
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Thu, 10/15/2009 - 00:09 by surajdogra
Washington -- The U.S. space agency says it's celebrating Earth Science Week by releasing five short educational videos under the theme "Understanding Climate."
This year's theme for Earth Science Week, which runs through Saturday, was
selected by the American Geological Institute.
The NASA video series entitled "Tides of Change" focuses on the ocean-climate connection, with each video featuring a specific aspect of that connection, such as the water cycle or life in the ocean.
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Wed, 10/14/2009 - 01:35 by surajdogra
Washington -- U.S. space agency officials say they've signed a patent license agreement with a California firm to improve medical access to hyperbaric chambers.
Hyperbaric chambers are used to treat many medical conditions by creating an environment in which the atmospheric pressure of oxygen is increased above normal levels, thereby reducing the size of gas bubbles in a person's blood and improving blood flow to oxygen-starved tissues, officials said.
The patent license went to OxyHeal Medical Systems Inc. of National City, Calif., to develop new products based on technologies NASA originally developed for space.
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Wed, 10/07/2009 - 22:27 by surajdogra
Moffett Field, Calif. -- The U.S. space agency says it has developed a video game designed to give young people the virtual experience of working on the International Space Station.
NASA said the game is based on work astronauts performed during the course of several ISS missions. The space agency said the game is part of its educational outreach effort to engage and inspire students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
"It's all about getting the next generation excited about space exploration,"
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Thu, 10/01/2009 - 22:41 by surajdogra
Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. -- The U.S. space agency says it is ready to start a study of the Earth's southern ice-covered regions to identify changes in sea ice, ice sheets and glaciers.
On Oct. 12, NASA's "Operation Ice Bridge" resumes when the space agency's DC-8 -- the largest aircraft in its science fleet -- leaves the Dryden Flight Research Center in California for Punta Arenas, Chile, where it will be based through
mid-November.
"For six weeks, the Ice Bridge team will traverse the Southern Ocean for up to 17 flights over West Antarctica, the Antarctic Peninsula, and coastal areas where sea ice is prevalent," NASA said.
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Fri, 09/25/2009 - 00:56 by Salinder Kumar
Pasadena, Calif. -- The U.S. space agency says its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has detected frozen water just below the surface of mid-latitude Mars.
NASA scientists said the spacecraft's observations were obtained from orbit after meteorites excavated fresh craters on the Red Planet. Scientists controlling instruments on the orbiter found bright ice exposed at five new craters that range in depth from about 1.5 feet to 8 feet.
NASA said some craters show a thin layer of bright ice atop darker
underlying material. The bright patches darkened in the weeks following initial observations, as the freshly exposed ice vaporized into the thin martian atmosphere, the researchers said.
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Thu, 09/24/2009 - 23:17 by Salinder Kumar
New York -- U.S. space agency scientists announced Thursday they have discovered water molecules in the polar regions of the moon.
NASA said instruments aboard three separate spacecraft revealed the water molecules in amounts greater than predicted, but still relatively small.
Hydroxyl, a molecule consisting of one oxygen atom and one hydrogen atom, also was found in the lunar soil.
NASA said its Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument aboard the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayann-1 spacecraft reported the initial observations. Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, as well as its Epoxi spacecraft, provided confirmation.
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Wed, 09/16/2009 - 23:25 by surajdogra
Houston -- The U.S. space agency says it is preparing for the next space shuttle mission -- STS-129 -- scheduled to be launched Nov. 12.
Space shuttle Atlantis' 11-day mission will include three spacewalks and the installation of two platforms to the International Space Station's truss, NASA said. The platforms will hold spare hardware to sustain station operations after the shuttles are retired.
Atlantis also will return NASA astronaut Nicole Stott, who will have spent more than two months aboard the orbiting laboratory. The space agency said STS-129 will mark the final time a station crew member will be returned home aboard a space shuttle flight.
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Wed, 09/16/2009 - 03:40 by surajdogra
Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. -- The U.S. space agency says space shuttle Discovery, which landed Friday at Edwards Air Force Base in California, is ready to return to Florida.
The shuttle was forced to land at the Air Force base when weather conditions became unfavorable for a scheduled landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida following the shuttle's STS-128 mission to the International Space
NASA said Discovery has been mounted on a modified Boeing 747 shuttle aircraft and is expected to begin its journey back to Kennedy as early as Friday. The exact date and time of departure have yet to be set because of changing weather conditions, NASA said.
The space agency said live status updates will be added periodically to the NASA
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Wed, 09/16/2009 - 01:05 by surajdogra
Houston -- The U.S. space agency says it will televise the launch of a Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft this month and its mission to the International Space Station.
The spacecraft will be carrying a spaceflight participant, a Russian cosmonaut and a NASA astronaut to the station and then will return two ISS crewmembers to Earth.
NASA said its coverage will begin Thursday with a broadcast of prelaunch activities and continue through the spacecraft's Oct. 11 landing.
Soyuz Commander Max Suraev, NASA astronaut Jeff Williams and spaceflight participant Guy Laliberte are to be aboard the spacecraft when it lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:14 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 30.
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