Scientists analyzing data from NASA’s Cassini mission have firm evidence the ocean inside Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, might be as salty as the Earth’s Dead Sea.
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NASA successfully launched its first spacecraft dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide at 2:56 a.m. PDT (5:56 a.m. EDT) Wednesday.
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The season’s first Atlantic tropical depression has formed near Florida.
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NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Storm Elida on July 1 and captured infrared data on the storm.
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NextGov (6/25, Brewin, 2K) reports NASA, well known as an innovator, announced the Open NASA Earth Exchange (OpenNEX) challenges, a two-phased project that asks the public to come up with new ways to make use of the extensive datasets its Earth science satellites capture. Rama Nemani, principal scientist for the NEX project at the Ames Research Center, said, These challenges allow citizen-scientists to realize the value of NASA data assets and offers NASA new ideas on how to share and use that data. According to the article, another benefit of the project is that it tackles policy mandates on big data, open data and climate data from the Obama administration. Overall, the goal of OpenNEXis to maximize the use of this data, according to Tsengar Lee, program manager in the Earth Science Division of the Science Mission Directorate, who said, The expectation was if you build the data, they will come, but that was not the case.
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NASA astronaut and educator Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger has departed the agency for other pursuits.
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The launch of NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket is scheduled for Wednesday, July 2 at 5:56 a.m. EDT (2:56 a.m. PDT) from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
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NOAA’s GOES-West satellite spotted two tropical low pressure areas chasing each other in the Eastern Pacific over the last several days.
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NASA has exercised the third option of its Technology, Engineering, and Aerospace Mission Support (TEAMS) 2 contract with Analytical Mechanics Associates Inc. (AMA) of Hampton, Virginia.
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NASA’s aerospace industry partners are taking their designs and operational plans for the agency’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP) through a series of comprehensive tests, evaluations and review boards this summer as they move through important milestones – all with an eye on launching people into orbit from American soil by 2017.
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