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• Ocean Policy
  Coral Reefs
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  Oceanography
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  Fifty Metric Tons of Marine Debris from Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

  July 20, 2012 — NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette arrived back in its homeport of Honolulu a few days ago after a month in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. The team of 17 scientists collected nearly ... > full story
• Saturn
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  Solar System
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  Pluto
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  River Networks on Saturn's Largest Moon, Titan, Point to a Puzzling Geologic History

  July 20, 2012 — New findings suggest the surface of Saturn's largest moon may have undergone a recent transformation. For many years, Titan's thick, methane- and nitrogen-rich atmosphere kept astronomers from seeing ... > full story
• Solar Flare
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  Northern Lights
  Astronomy
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  NASA
   
  

  NASA Sees Sun Send out Mid-Level Solar Flare

  July 19, 2012 — A new image was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on July 19, 2012 of an M7.7 class solar flare. The image represents light in the 131 Angstrom wavelength, which is particularly good for ... > full story
• Space Exploration
  Aviation
  NASA
  Space Missions
  Space Probes
  Space Station
   
  

  NASA Completes Another Successful Orion Parachute Test

  July 19, 2012 — NASA completed another successful test July 18 of the Orion crew vehicle's parachutes high above the Arizona desert in preparation for the spacecraft's orbital flight test in 2014. Orion will carry ... > full story
• Saturn
  Astronomy
  Solar System
  Space Exploration
  Space Probes
  NASA
   
  

  Cassini Spots Daytime Lightning on Saturn

  July 19, 2012 — Saturn was playing the lightning storm blues. NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured images of last year's storm on Saturn, the largest storm seen up-close at the planet, with bluish spots in the ... > full story
• Astronomy
  Extrasolar Planets
  NASA
  Space Exploration
  Space Telescopes
  Solar System
   
  

  Magma World: NASA'S Spitzer Finds Evidence for an Exoplanet Smaller Than Earth

  July 18, 2012 — Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have detected what they believe is a planet two-thirds the size of Earth. The exoplanet candidate, called UCF-1.01, is located a mere 33 light-years ... > full story

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  • Scientists Discover Exoplanet Neighbor Smaller Than Earth
• Space Probes
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  Bringing the Inertia of Space to Robotics Research

  July 18, 2012 — To emulate the classical mechanics of physics found in space on full-scale replica spacecraft on Earth, researchers grapple "floating" objects in the ... > full story
• Atmosphere
  Geomagnetic Storms
  Earth Science
  Geology
  Near-Earth Object Impacts
  Weather
   
  

  The Electric Atmosphere: Plasma Is Next NASA Science Target

  July 17, 2012 — Two giant donuts of this plasma surround Earth, trapped within a region known as the Van Allen Radiation Belts. The belts lie close to Earth, sandwiched between satellites in geostationary orbit ... > full story
• Earth Science
  Stars
  Sun
  Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Geomagnetic Storms
  Extrasolar Planets
   
  

  Why Is Earth So Dry? Planet Formed from Rocky Debris in Hotter Region, Inside of Solar System's 'Snow Line'

  July 17, 2012 — A new analysis of the common accretion-disk model explaining how planets form in a debris disk around our Sun uncovered a possible reason for Earth's comparative dryness. The study found that our ... > full story
• Moon
  Space Missions
  Space Exploration
  NASA
  Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Space Probes
   

  Asteroid Strikes Cause the Moon's Surface to Smooth

  July 16, 2012 — The lunar surface is marred by impact craters, remnants of the collisions that have occurred over the past 4.5 billion years. The Orientale basin, the Moon's most recently formed sizeable crater, ... > full story

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