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Map illustration of path solar eclipse will travel over the United States
Tracing the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse
Earth
Jan 23, 2017
When depicting an eclipse path, data visualizers have usually chosen to represent the moon's shadow as an oval. By bringing in a variety of NASA... Read More
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Illustration of the Auto-gopher 1 performing a deep drill
Auto-Gopher: Drilling Deep to Explore the Solar System
Planets of Our Solar System
Jan 19, 2017
An initial version of the drill technology—the Auto-Gopher-1—is pictured here with coresit acquired from drilling a 3-m hole in 40MPa gypsum... Read More
Data visualization of 2016 global temperatures
NASA, NOAA Data Show 2016 Warmest Year on Record Globally
Earth
Jan 18, 2017

Editor's note: The media telecon on global temperatures will be carried at 11 a.m. on www.nasa.gov/live. Graphics for telecon: NASA-...

New Horizons in the Kuiper Belt
NASA Hosts Facebook Live to Mark Success, Future of New Horizons Mission
Solar System
Jan 17, 2017

Artist's conception of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft encountering a Kuiper Belt object, part of an extended mission after the spacecraft...

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Illustration of a rectangular satellite in orbit
New Atmospheric Detector Technology Demonstrated on a CubeSat
Earth
Jan 13, 2017
An artist’s depiction of GRIFEX in orbit. Technology Development: The GEO-CAPE ROIC In- Flight Performance Experiment (GRIFEX) CubeSat was... Read More
Planet Earth as seen from space
NASA, NOAA to Announce 2016 Global Temperatures, Climate Conditions
Earth
Jan 13, 2017

Climate experts from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will provide the annually-scheduled release of data on...

NASA field research campaigns
NASA Plans Another Busy Year for Earth Science Fieldwork
Earth
Jan 12, 2017

Three new NASA field research campaigns get underway around the world this year and nine continue fieldwork to give scientists a deeper...

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Testing of HEEET material at the NASA Ames Arc Jet Complex in the Interaction Heating Facility.
Specialized Weaving Techniques Enable a New Heatshield for Planetary Exploration
Planets of Our Solar System
Jan 5, 2017
Technology Development: When the Galileo mission’s probe entered the Jovian atmosphere in December 1995, it experienced temperatures twice as hot as... Read More
Artist’s conception of the Lucy and Psyche mission spacecraft
NASA Selects Two Missions to Explore the Early Solar System
Solar System
Jan 4, 2017

(Left) An artist’s conception of the Lucy spacecraft flying by the Trojan Eurybates – one of the six diverse and scientifically important...

NASA Selects Mission to Study Black Holes, Cosmic X-ray Mysteries
NASA Selects Mission to Study Black Holes, Cosmic X-ray Mysteries
Universe
Jan 3, 2017

NASA has selected a science mission that will allow astronomers to explore, for the first time, the hidden details of some of the most extreme and...