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  New Flame Trench Will Support New Era at Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39B

  June 27, 2013 — For the first time since NASA's Apollo-era rockets and space shuttles lifted off on missions from Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, one of the launch pads is undergoing extensive ... > full story
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  Sterilizing Mars Spacecraft Is Largely a Waste of Money, Two Experts Argue

  June 27, 2013 — Two university researchers say environmental restrictions have become unnecessarily restrictive and expensive -- on ... > full story
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  Five Years of Stereo Imaging for NASA's TWINS

  June 24, 2013 — Surrounding Earth is a dynamic region called the magnetosphere. The region is governed by magnetic and electric forces, incoming energy and material from the sun, and a vast zoo of waves and ... > full story
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  Mystery of the Gigantic Storm on Saturn

  June 24, 2013 — We now understand the nature of the giant storms on Saturn. Through the analysis of images as well as the computer models of the storms and the examination of the clouds therein, astronomers have ... > full story
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  Sun Emits a Solstice CME

  June 22, 2013 — On June 20, 2013, at 11:24 p.m., the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of particles into space that can reach Earth ... > full story
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  How Did a Third Radiation Belt Appear in the Earth's Upper Atmosphere?

  June 20, 2013 — How did a third radiation belt appear in the Earth's upper atmosphere, and then almost completely ... > full story
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  Metamorphosis of Moon's Water Ice Explained

  June 19, 2013 — Using data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission, scientists believe they have solved a mystery from one of the solar system's coldest regions -- a permanently shadowed crater on ... > full story
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  Small Satellites Soar in High-Altitude Demonstration

  June 18, 2013 — Four tiny spacecraft soared over the California desert June 15 in a high-altitude demonstration flight that tested the sensor and equipment designs created by NASA engineers and student launch ... > full story
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  Cassini Probe to Take Photo of Earth from Deep Space

  June 18, 2013 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft, now exploring Saturn, will take a picture of our home planet from a distance of hundreds of millions of miles on July 19. NASA is inviting the public to help acknowledge ... > full story
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  Mars Water-Ice Clouds Are Key to Odd Thermal Rhythm

  June 12, 2013 — Researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have found that temperatures in the Martian atmosphere regularly rise and fall not just once each day, but ... > full story

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