NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft has captured its first observations of a region of the sun that is now possible to observe in detail: the lowest layers of the sun’s atmosphere.
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Using data from a NASA satellite, scientists have discovered a massive particle accelerator in the heart of one of the harshest regions of near-Earth space, a region of super-energetic, charged particles surrounding the globe and known as the Van Allen radiation belts.
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NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver will hold a media availability at the NewSpace 2013 conference in Silicon Valley, Calif., on Friday, July 26.
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NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft has captured its first observations of a region of the sun that is now possible to observe in detail: the lowest layers of the sun’s atmosphere.
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The true identity of centaurs, the small celestial bodies orbiting the sun between Jupiter and Neptune, is one of the enduring mysteries of astrophysics. Are they asteroids or comets? A new study of observations from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) finds most centaurs are comets.
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Using data from a NASA satellite, scientists have discovered a massive particle accelerator in the heart of one of the harshest regions of near-Earth space, a region of super-energetic, charged particles surrounding the globe and known as the Van Allen radiation belts.
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The fourth tropical depression of the Atlantic Ocean hurricane season was born west of the Cape Verde Islands in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean on July 24. NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite provides continuous views of the Atlantic Ocean basin and captured an image of the newborn storm.
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During initial exploratory recovery tests, both reaction wheel 4 and 2 spun.
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NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 25, to present the first images from NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), which was launched June 27 on a mission to study the sun.
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A complicated, high-altitude test Wednesday demonstrated NASA’s new Orion spacecraft could land safely even if one of its parachutes failed.
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