Archive for 2007
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NASA Satellite Captures First View of 'Night-Shining Clouds'
July 16, 2007
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Humans have yet to see Earth's center, as did the characters in Jules Verne's science fiction classic, "Journey to the Center of the Earth." But a new NASA study proposes a novel technique to pinpoint more precisely the location of Earth's center of mass and how it moves through space.
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Opportunity's One-Way Trip?
July 15, 2007
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NASA's Mars rover Opportunity is about to begin a dangerous descent into Mars' massive Victoria Crater. The trip is worth the risk because exposed materials in the crater's depths could yield important information about the history of water on Mars.
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Biosphere 2 Bounces Back
July 14, 2007
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A new initiative to provide researchers with access to the Biosphere 2 facility is set to help scientists tackle challenges facing science and society, including global climate change, the fate of water and how energy travels through Earth's ecosystems.
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Hubble Catches Jupiter Changing Its Stripes
July 13, 2007
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Massive Jupiter is undergoing dramatic atmospheric changes that have never been seen before with the keen "eye" of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.