(PhysOrg.com) — The universe is still an arcane place that scientists know very little about, but a new NASA Solar Terrestrial Probe mission is going to shed light on one especially mysterious event called magnetic reconnection. It occurs when magnetic lines of force cross, cancel, and reconnect releasing magnetic energy in the form of heat and charged-particle kinetic energy.
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NASA’s Magnetospheric Mission Passes Major Milestone
Monday, September 6th, 2010Next Mars rover stretches robotic arm
Monday, September 6th, 2010(PhysOrg.com) — Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory rover that will be on Mars two years from now, has been flexing the robotic arm that spacecraft workers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory attached to the rover body in August 2010.
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Next Mars rover stretches robotic arm
Missing piece inspires new look at Mars puzzle
Friday, September 3rd, 2010(PhysOrg.com) — Experiments prompted by a 2008 surprise from NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander suggest that soil examined by NASA’s Viking Mars landers in 1976 may have contained carbon-based chemical building blocks of life.
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Missing piece inspires new look at Mars puzzle
Solar Probe Plus mission to plunge directly into Sun’s atmosphere
Friday, September 3rd, 2010NASA has begun development of a mission to visit and study the sun closer than ever before. The unprecedented project, named Solar Probe Plus, is slated to launch no later than 2018.
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Solar Probe Plus mission to plunge directly into Sun’s atmosphere
Hurricane warnings posted on US East Coast, NASA sees Earl’s heavy rainfall
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, or TRMM satellite looked at the rate rain was falling in Hurricane Earl yesterday, and it was intense.
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Hurricane warnings posted on US East Coast, NASA sees Earl’s heavy rainfall
Hurricane warnings posted on US East Coast, NASA sees Earl’s heavy rainfall
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, or TRMM satellite looked at the rate rain was falling in Hurricane Earl yesterday, and it was intense.
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Hurricane warnings posted on US East Coast, NASA sees Earl’s heavy rainfall
NASA infrared data sees convection building in Fiona’s clouds
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010Infrared satellite imagery from NASA’s Aqua satellite showed some strong convection building in Tropical Storm Fiona, and her maximum sustained winds increased from 40 mph yesterday to 60 mph this morning
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NASA infrared data sees convection building in Fiona’s clouds
Infrared NASA image shows strong convection in new Atlantic Depression 9
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010The Atlantic Ocean is in overdrive this week, and NASA satellite imagery captured the birth of the ninth tropical depression in the central Atlantic Ocean today, trailing to the east of Tropical Storm Fiona.
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Infrared NASA image shows strong convection in new Atlantic Depression 9
University of Colorado students, staff help NASA decommission satellite
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010University of Colorado at Boulder undergraduates, who have been helping to control five NASA satellites from campus, participated in the unusual decommissioning of a functioning satellite with a failed science payload in recent days, bringing the craft into Earth re-entry to burn up yesterday.
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University of Colorado students, staff help NASA decommission satellite