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1. Three FASTSAT Instruments Pass Tests

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   Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 15, 2010 - The outer layers of Earth's atmosphere hold many secrets yet to be uncovered and three scientific instruments will fly soon on the FASTSAT-HSV01 satellite and seek to ... Sunday, 14 March 2010

2. Fuel To The Fire

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   ... - this one at the Dundes Nature Reserve in Western Australia. Nearly 200,000 acres have gone up in flames as of February 18. That's a lot of carbon added to the atmosphere. ... Monday, 08 March 2010

3. Battle Between Sun And Earth For Our Atmosphere

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   ... weakness, coupled with a strong wind of energetic particles from the young Sun, likely stripped water from the early Earth's atmosphere. ... Sunday, 07 March 2010

4. Scientists Come to a Conclusion: Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs

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   ... minutes after impact," said Dr. Penny Barton, who led the group. "The front of the asteroid hit the Earth while the far side was still out in the upper atmosphere, punching a hole though the ... Thursday, 04 March 2010

5. Into A Volcano To Test Suitcase-Sized Science Lab

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... research assistant, led an expedition into a cinder cone atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii, to test the prototype for an instrument that will be a miniature laboratory to discover the composition of rocks and atmospheres ... Wednesday, 24 February 2010

6. With a Name Like GOES-P, This Satellite Has to be Good

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   ... are the backbone of NOAA's severe weather forecasts, monitoring fast-changing conditions in the atmosphere that spawn hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and other hazards," said Steve Kirkner, GOES ... Tuesday, 23 February 2010

7. The Father Of Arecibo Observatory Dies At 92

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... Engineering at Cornell in 1958 when he began designing the radio telescope to study the Earth's upper atmosphere and nearby space. ... Monday, 22 February 2010

8. ISS Astronaut Captures Shuttle Landing from Cupola

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   ... able to capture the plasma trail produced by space shuttle Endeavour as it streaked through Earth's atmosphere. "Space Shuttle Endeavour making S-turn during atmospheric re-entry," Noguchi ... Sunday, 21 February 2010

9. Ozone on Mars: Two Windows Better Than One

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... which describe anthropogenic global warming here on Earth. But how can we work out what the climate on Mars is, today? A new, coordinated observation campaign to measure ozone in the Martian atmosphere ... Saturday, 20 February 2010

10. Does Zonal Swishing Play a Part in Earth's Magnetic Field Reversals?

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    ... atmosphere's jet streams, for example? Recent research by a team of geophysicists in Japan sheds some light on these questions, and so hints at what causes magnetic pole flips. (...) Read the rest ... Saturday, 20 February 2010

11. Scenes from Space: Best Images from STS-130 (so far…)

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    ... shot of the Endeavour silhouetted against Earth's colorful atmosphere, to incredible views of the International Space station, to the always amazing photos of astronauts at work in space. But that's ... Tuesday, 16 February 2010

12. The Solar Dynamics Observatory Soars to Study the Sun

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    ... we are learning things about our atmosphere from SDO." (...) Read the rest of The Solar Dynamics Observatory Soars to Study the Sun (297 words) © nancy for Universe Today, 2010. | Permalink ... Thursday, 11 February 2010

13. NASA Sun Probe rolled to Pad; 10 hours to Blast off

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... mm CCDs. In comparison, a standard digital camera uses a 7.176 by 5.329 mm CCD sensor. AIA also will image the outer layer of the sun’s atmosphere, while the Extreme ultraviolet Variability Experiment, ... Tuesday, 09 February 2010

14. Seeing ExoPlanet Atmospheres From The Ground

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    Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2010 - NASA astronomers have demonstrated that a David of a telescope can tackle Goliath-size questions in the quest to study Earth-like planets around other stars. Their ... Tuesday, 09 February 2010

15. Little Galaxy With a Tail

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    ... the formation in stellar atmospheres, to the reservoir containing the present day interstellar medium, and the dust consumed in forming new stars. The dust being formed in old, evolved stars (blue stars ... Wednesday, 03 February 2010

16. New Technique For Detecting Earth-Like Planets

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    London, UK (SPX) Feb 04, 2010 - Astronomers have discovered a new ground-based technique to study the atmospheres of planets outside our Solar System, accelerating our search for Earth-like planets with ... Wednesday, 03 February 2010

17. New Technique to Find Earth-like Exoplanets

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... telescopes or space-based observatories. A group of astronomers developed the new technique by using a relatively small Earth-based infrared telescope to identify an organic molecule in the atmosphere ... Wednesday, 03 February 2010

18. NASA advanced Solar Observatory nearing February launch; will send IMAX like movies daily

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    SDO and two piece payload fairing inside “clean room” at Astrotech Spaceflight facility near KSC on Jan 21. Fairing protects spacecraft during ascent through earths atmosphere. Credit: Ben Cooper/Spaceflight ... Saturday, 23 January 2010

19. Cluster Satellite Detects Rifts in Earth's Magnetic Field

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    ... the location and duration of these ruptures in the Earth's magnetic shield, and reveals while our atmosphere protects us for the most part, clear effects of these rifts have been detected high in ... Friday, 22 January 2010

20. Cluster Satellite Detects Rifts in Earth's Magnetic Field

    Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

    ... the location and duration of these ruptures in the Earth's magnetic shield, and reveals while our atmosphere protects us for the most part, clear effects of these rifts have been detected high in ... Friday, 22 January 2010