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Building a Buckyball Particle in Space

February 22, 2012

NASA's Spitzer Finds Solid Buckyballs in Space

Astronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, discovered buckyballs in a solid form in space.

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This image of clouds over the southern Indian Ocean was acquired on July 23, 2007

February 21, 2012

NASA Satellite Finds Earth's Clouds are Getting Lower

A new university study using data from NASA's Terra spacecraft finds Earth's clouds got about one percent lower on average during the first decade of the 2000s.

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Artist's concept of NuSTAR on orbit. NuSTAR has a 10-m (30') mast that deploys after launch to separate the optics modules (right) from the detectors in the focal plane (left).

February 17, 2012

NuSTAR Mated to its Rocket

Mating of NASA's NuSTAR observatory to its Pegasus rocket is underway.

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Global map of forest height produced from NASA's ICESAT/GLAS, MODIS and TRMM sensors.

February 17, 2012

NASA Map Sees Earth's Trees in a New Light

A NASA-led science team has created an accurate, high-resolution map of the height of Earth's forests.

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A large, miles-long crack was plainly  visible across the ice shelf on the Pine Island Glacier

February 14, 2012

NASA Aircraft to Trek Globe in 2012 for Earth Studies

With missions scheduled throughout the year, 2012 is shaping up to be an extraordinary time for NASA's Airborne Science Program and JPL Earth system science research.

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CubeSat Artist Rendering and NASA's M-Cubed/COVE

February 14, 2012

JPL and Caltech CubeSat Proposals Move Forward

NASA selects 33 small satellites - including two from JPL in partnership with Caltech - to fly as auxiliary payloads aboard rockets planned to launch in 2013 and 2014.

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NASA Engineers and Technicians transporting the SCAN Testbed

February 13, 2012

Advanced Communications Testbed for Space Station

An orbiting laboratory will soon provide new and improved ways for future space travelers to communicate.

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All-sky image of molecular gas and three molecular cloud complexes seen by Planck

February 13, 2012

Planck All-Sky Images Show Cold Gas and Strange Haze

New images from the Planck mission show previously undiscovered islands of star formation and a mysterious haze of microwave emissions in our Milky Way galaxy.

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This five-foot-high (1.5-meter-high) surface rupture, called a scarp, formed in just seconds along the Borrego fault during the magnitude 7.2

February 9, 2012

3-D Map Study Shows Before-After of 2010 Mexico Quake

A new partially NASA-supported study of the April 2010 major quake near the California-Mexico border gives the most comprehensive before-and-after picture yet of a quake zone.

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This artist concept features NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover

February 9, 2012

Spacecraft Computer Issue Resolved

Engineers have found the root cause of a computer reset that occurred two months ago on NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and have determined how to correct it.

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