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June 17, 2013 The Turbulent, High-Energy Sky Is Keeping NuSTAR BusyLike "things that go bump in the night," a few high-energy events in the universe have captured the attention of the NuSTAR telescope. |
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June 13, 2013 Warm Ocean Causing Most Antarctic Ice Shelf Mass LossOcean waters melting the undersides of Antarctic ice shelves are responsible for most of the continent's ice shelf mass loss, a new study by NASA and university researchers has found. |
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June 12, 2013 Mars Water-Ice Clouds Are Key to Odd Thermal RhythmResearchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have found that temperatures in the Martian atmosphere regularly rise and fall not just once each day, but twice. |
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June 11, 2013 Marks on Martian Dunes May Be Tracks of Dry-Ice SledsNASA research indicates hunks of frozen carbon dioxide -- dry ice -- may glide down some Martian sand dunes on cushions of gas similar to miniature hovercraft, plowing furrows as they go. |
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June 11, 2013 Shining a Light on Cool Pools of Gas in the GalaxyThe stuff of stars is not always easy to see. Thanks to the Herschel Space Observatory, invisible pools of gas in our galaxy are being mapped better than before. |
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June 11, 2013 Black Hole Naps Amidst Stellar ChaosNASA's NuSTAR space telescope has found evidence of a slumbering massive black hole in a galaxy bursting with new stars. |
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June 10, 2013 Is a Sleeping Climate Giant Stirring in the Arctic?Frozen Arctic soils hold vast stores of carbon that may exacerbate global warming. A NASA Arctic campaign is looking for signals that may hold a key to Earth's climate future. |
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June 7, 2013 Hidden Wildfires Taking Big Toll on Amazon RainforestA pair of new studies using NASA satellite data shed light on a previously hidden type of Amazon forest wildfire and links between climate conditions and Amazon fire risk. |
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June 7, 2013 Small Asteroid Between Earth and MoonSmall asteroid 2013 LR6 will safely fly past this evening at a distance of about 65,000 miles (105,000 kilometers) above Earth's surface. |
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June 7, 2013 Mars Rover Opportunity Trekking Toward More LayersApproaching its 10th anniversary of leaving Earth, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is on the move again, trekking to a new study area still many weeks away. |