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  • Students compete in the 2012 Invention Challenge at JPL.

    Students' Toss Wins Top Honors at JPL Competition

    12.07.12 - Monroe Magnet Middle School, Inglewood, Calif., claimed victory at the annual Invention Challenge, held today at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

  • JAXA astronaut Aki Hoshide preparing the JEM Small Satellite Orbital Deployer aboard the International Space Station. (NASA)

    CubeSats in Orbit After Space Station Deployment

    12.10.12 - Typically satellites launch from Earth, requiring dedicated launch vehicles. JAXA found a way to cut costs by designing a small satellite launcher.

  • subset of Suomi NPP 'Black Marble' showing Australia

    Wildfires Light Up Western Australia

    12.07.12 - Why does the western portion of Australia look so lit up in the new "Black Marble" imagery?

  • artist concept of Fermi observing gamma-rays from thunderstorms

    Fermi's Vision for Thunderstorm Gamma-Rays Improves

    12.06.12 - The Fermi space telescope is now 10 times better at catching brief outbursts of high-energy light produced above thunderstorms.

  • shadow of Apollo 14 astronaut looms over footprints, packages of instruments and wiring across the lunar surface

    Apollo's Lunar Dust Data Being Restored

    12.06.12 - Readings from Apollo 14 and 15 dust detectors have been restored and made available to scientists thanks to work by the National Space Science Data Center at Goddard.

  • A galaxy cluster 7.7 billion light-years away

    Little Telescope Spies Gigantic Galaxy Clusters

    12.06.12 - NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, is helping to find the rarest and largest of galaxy groupings in the universe.

  • Sinuous gullies in Cornelia Crater

    What is Creating Gullies on Vesta?

    12.06.12 - Something is forming intriguing gullies on the giant asteroid Vesta. Scientists with NASA's Dawn mission are trying to figure out what could be creating these features.

  • Astronaut Suni Williams with the YouTube SpaceLab payload Spider Habitat where Nefertiti the spidernaut lived while she was on orbit. (NASA)

    Saying "Godspeed" to a Spidernaut

    12.06.12 - Nefertiti didn't spin a web like Charlotte; her kind never could. But the red-back jumping spider earned a classy nickname, Spidernaut.

  • The International Space Station taken from Space Shuttle Discovery as the Sun rises from behind Earth. The STS-119 and Expedition 18 crew took this picture after leaving the Space Station in March 2009. (NASA/ESA)

    International Space Station Salutes the Sun

    12.07.12 - This weekend the International Space Station will turn itself to position the European Space Agency's SOLAR instrument for a better view of the sun.

  • composite globe view of Western Hemisphere nighttime illumination derived from Suomi NPP data

    The Black Marble: Earth at Night

    12.05.12 - This new look at our planet at night shows the glow of natural and human-built phenomena across Earth in greater detail than ever before.

  • drought map showing deep rust stain across the midwest, darkest across the Mississippi valley

    Plant Stress Paints Early Picture of Drought

    12.05.12 - Before a lack of rain and record-breaking heat signaled a problem in July 2012, scientists observed another indication of drought in data from NASA and NOAA satellites: plant stress.

  • Artist's rendition of RBSP in orbit.

    Van Allen Probes Reveal New Dynamics of Radiation Belts

    12.05.12 - 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 TRMM satellite visualized Typhoon Bopha in 3-D as it moved through the western North Pacific Ocean.

    NASA's TRMM Satellite Provides 3-D Analyzation of Super-typhoon Bopha: "Full Catastrophe"

    12.05.12 - NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite observed the eyewall of Super-typhoon Bopha in 3-D shortly before noon on Monday, Dec. 3, 2012 (Philippines local time).

  • Goddard technologist Mahmooda Sultana is investigating two new applications for graphene.

    NASA Investigates Use of ‘Trailblazing’ Material

    12.05.12 - Tiny sensor -- made of a potentially trailblazing material just one atom thick and heralded as the 'next best thing' since the invention of silicon -- are now being developed to detect trace elements in Earth’s upper atmosphere and structural flaws in spacecraft.

  • Coronagraph image taken by SOHO shows an approaching comet.

    Sungrazing Comets as Solar Probes

    12.05.12 - On Dec. 15, 2011, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured footage of Comet Lovejoy approaching the sun. The images and data collected by NASA's solar observing fleet can help scientists learn more about the sun itself.

  • Impact scars from MSL cruise stage and two balance weights

    Orbiter Spies Where Rover's Cruise Stage Hit Mars

    12.05.12 - Pictures from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show scars on the surface of the Red Planet where discarded pieces of the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft hit the ground.

  • Space shuttle Atlantis is lifted and tilted into its display position

    Lift and Tilt Prepares Atlantis for Display

    12.04.12 - Still in its protective shrink wrap, space shuttle Atlantis has been raised and tilted into display position at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

  • Nov. 16, 2012 combined image showing the sun's innermost atmosphere as seen by the SDO, inside a larger CME SOHO image.

    SOHO: Crucial Space Weather Mission Hits 17 Years

    12.04.12 - A joint ESA/NASA mission, SOHO has helped revolutionize our understanding of the sun's interior and complex atmosphere since it launched on Dec. 2, 1995.

  • The Whitewater-Baldy Complex wildfire in Gila National Forest, New Mexico, as it burned on June 6th, 2012.

    Climate Models Project Increase in U.S. Wildfire Risk

    12.04.12 - Scientists using NASA satellite data and climate models have projected drier conditions likely will cause increased fire activity across the United States in coming decades.

  • Opportunity's traverse map for sol 3135

    NASA Opportunity Rover Does Walkabout of Crater Rim

    12.04.12 - The latest work assignment for NASA's long-lived Mars rover Opportunity is a further examination of an area where the robot just completed a walkabout.

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