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  Landsat Data Continuity Mission Awaits Liftoff

  February 8, 2013 — When the newest Landsat spacecraft trains its state-of-the-art sensors on Earth's surface, it will provide images of our ever-changing planet in unparalleled clarity. Launched by NASA in partnership ... > full story
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  NASA's MAVEN Mission Completes Assembly, Begins Environmental Testing

  February 10, 2013 — NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft is assembled and is undergoing environmental testing at Lockheed Martin Space Systems facilities, near Denver, Colo. MAVEN is the next ... > full story
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  New NASA Mission to Help Us Better Estimate Asteroid Impact Hazard

  February 8, 2013 — Every year, sensors designed to detect nuclear explosions see harmless bursts in Earth's upper atmosphere from the breakup of an asteroid a few yards across. Tiny asteroids are much more numerous ... > full story
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  NASA Scientists Build First-Ever Wide-Field X-Ray Imager

  February 7, 2013 — Three NASA scientists teamed up to develop and demonstrate NASA's first wide-field-of-view soft X-ray camera for studying "charge exchange," a poorly understood phenomenon that occurs when the solar ... > full story
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  NASA's Deep Impact Spacecraft Eyes Comet ISON

  February 5, 2013 — NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has acquired its first images of comet C/2012 S1 (ISON). The images were taken by the spacecraft's Medium-Resolution Imager over a 36-hour period on Jan. 17 and 18, ... > full story
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  WISE Space Telescope Feels the Heat from Orion's Sword

  February 5, 2013 — The tangle of clouds and stars that lie in Orion's sword is showcased in a new, expansive view from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or ... > full story
• Atmosphere
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  Twenty NASA Balloons Studying the Radiation Belts

  February 5, 2013 — In the bright, constant sun of the Antarctic summer, a NASA-funded team is launching balloons. There are twenty of these big, white balloons, each of which sets off on a different day for a leisurely ... > full story
• Saturn
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  Cassini Sees Saturn's Moon Titan Cooking Up Smog

  February 4, 2013 — Newly published research using data from NASA's Cassini mission describes in more detail than ever before how aerosols in the highest part of the atmosphere are kick-started at Saturn's moon Titan. ... > full story
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  Seeing the Aurora in a New Light: Sounding Rocket to Help Scientists Study Northern Lights

  February 1, 2013 — Armed with a series of instruments, the VISIONS rocket will soar high through the arctic sky to study the auroral wind, which is a strong but intermittent stream of oxygen atoms from Earth's ... > full story
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  NASA's Cassini Watches Saturn Storm Choke on Its Own Tail

  January 31, 2013 — Call it a Saturnian version of the Ouroboros, the mythical serpent that bites its own tail. In a new paper that provides the most detail yet about the life and death of a monstrous ... > full story

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