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NASA News: August 2009

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  1. NASA Goes Inside a Volcano, Monitors Activity August 7, 2009

    Scientists have placed high-tech "spiders" inside and around the mouth of Mount St. Helens, the site of the most active volcano in the United States.

  2. NASA's CloudSat Captures a Sideways Look at Fading Lana August 3, 2009

    NASA satellites do some really cool things, like take a sideways look at a slice of a tropical depression -- that's what CloudSat did with Lana in the Central Pacific.

  3. NASA's Moon Mapper Beholds Home August 3, 2009

    A false-color image of Earth was taken by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper, one of two NASA instruments onboard the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft.