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  • CoCoRaHS rain gauge after storm

    Public Invited to Webinar on Citizen Science

    02.06.13 - The public is invited to participate in a free webinar to promote citizen science that involves rain and snow measurements across the United States.

  • Graphic showing Idea 1 and 2 of the Advanced High Lift Leading Edge. Idea 2 has a larger slope.

    NASA Seeks It All: High Lift, Low Drag

    02.06.13 - NASA and its industry partners have been working to prove you can have your aerodynamic cake and eat it, too.

  • Space Mirror Memorial

    Day of Remembrance Honors 'Ultimate Sacrifice'

    02.07.13 - During NASA's annual Day of Remembrance activities at the Kennedy Space Center, employees and guests paid tribute to astronauts who perished in the conquest of space.

  • On Feb. 6, 2013, the VISIONS sounding rocket successfully launched.

    VISIONS: A Successful Launch

    02.07.13 - The principal investigator for VISIONS (VISualizing Ion Outflow via Neutral atom imaging during a Substorm), Goddard's Doug Rowland provided images and updates of the team preparations and the launch.

  • The Sector 33 App at the USA Science and Engineering Festival in 2012.

    Sector 33 Game App Goes Android

    02.05.13 - Up to the challenge of playing a game where you're in control of airplanes in a piece of the nation's skies? Yup, there's an app for that.

  • The ExPRESS Pallet Adapter is the platform that SAGE III that will mount to the International Space Station, shown here during vibration testing at NASA's Langley Research Center in preparation for a 2014 launch date. (NASA/Sean Smith)

    Space Station Bound SAGE III is Full Steam Ahead

    02.22.13 - Above Earth, observations from the “A-Train" build three-dimensional images of the atmosphere. NASA’s SAGE III will supplement those satellites.

  • Scientist with mirror

    NASA Designs New Space Telescope Optics

    02.13.2013 - Although hundreds of planets orbiting other stars have been discovered in the past 15 years, we cannot yet answer the age-old question of whether any of these planets are capable of sustaining life.

  • Astronaut Frank DeWinne works with the Selectable Optical Diagnostics Instrument Influence of Vibration on Diffusion in Liquids (SODI-IVIDIL) hardware in the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG) aboard the International Space Station. (Credit NASA)

    Fluids in Space, Shaken Not Stirred

    02.13.13 - Furthering fluid physics fundamentals in microgravity with results from the International Space Station SODI-IVIDIL investigation.

  • Artist's conception of a hypothetical planet with two moons orbiting a red dwarf star.

    Kepler Data Suggest Earth-size Planets May Be Next Door

    02.06.2013 - Astronomers estimate that six percent of red dwarfs have a temperate Earth-size planet, as close as 13 light-years away.

  • Dazzlingly complex galaxy with a golden, glowing center, blue-white spirals, sporadic pink blossoms of stars, dark filament lanes and rust-red streaks cutting across the spirals

    A Cosmological Masterpiece

    02.05.13 - Renowned astro-photographer Robert Gendler combined Hubble archive data with his own ground-based observations to assemble a photo illustration of the magnificent spiral galaxy M106.

  • Orion nebula

    WISE Feels the Heat from Orion's Sword

    02.05.13 - The tangle of clouds and stars that lie in Orion's sword is showcased in a new, expansive view from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.

  • Engineers work on the center section of the backplane support structure that will hold Webb's mirror segments.

    2012: The Webb Telescope's Big Year of Progress

    02.05.13 - The James Webb Space Telescope marked another year of significant progress in 2012 as flight instrumentation was completed and delivered to NASA.

  • The ribbon observed by the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) Mission is a narrow bright feature that spans much of the nighttime sky linking together the summer constellation of Cygnus, the swan, Aquila, the eagle, the center of the Milky Way galaxy, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.

    Explaining the Ribbon in Space Discovered by IBEX

    02.05.13 - Using NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX), scientists have devised the best model yet for the appearance of a vast ribbon of neutral atoms that curls through the boundaries of Earth's solar system.

  • Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn

    Expedition 34 Update: Feb. 5, 2013

    02.05.13 - Expedition 34 is working on ongoing international science while upgrading the station’s communications system.

    › ISS Update Video  |  › Crew timelines
  • Orbital trajectory of comet C/2012 S1 (ISON)

    NASA's Deep Impact Spacecraft Eyes Comet ISON

    02.05.13 - NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has acquired its first images of comet C/2012 S1 (ISON).

  • One of 20 balloons launched as part of NASA's BARREL mission.

    Twenty NASA Balloons Studying the Radiation Belts

    02.04.13 - Just 96 days since launch, the Van Allen Probes have already provided new insights into the structure and behavior of the radiation belts that surround Earth.

  • NASA's High Energy Atmospheric Reentry Test (HEART)

    NASA's HEART Animation

    02.05.13 - The High Energy Atmospheric Reentry Test (HEART) is a design concept for a flight test that would demonstrate a larger HIAD with a diameter of almost 30 feet (8 meters).

  • Commander Kevin Ford

    Expedition 34 Update: Feb. 4, 2013

    02.04.13 - Expedition 34 worked high end science and plumbing while preparing for the departure and arrival of two resupply craft.

    › ISS Update Video  |  › Crew timelines
  • Alice Harding

    Goddard Astrophysicist Wins Prize for Pulsar Work

    02.04.13 - To say that Alice Harding, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., has a passion for pulsars is a bit of an understatement.

  • Sunlight reflected off a lake on Saturn's moon Titan

    Cassini Sees Titan Cooking up Smog

    02.04.13 - A new paper details how the aerosol particles on Saturn's smog-shrouded moon get their start, suggesting ways such particles can form in the atmospheres of other worlds.

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