Satellite View of the Americas on Earth Day
Today, April 22, 2014 is Earth Day, and what better way to celebrate than taking a look at our home planet from space.
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SpaceX Dragon CRS-3 Grappled to Canadarm2
On Sunday, April 20, 2014, the Expedition 39 crew aboard the International Space Station welcomed nearly two-and-a-half tons of supplies and scientific payloads to the station with the arrival of the third SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo spacecraft.
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Hubble Provides A Cross-section of the Universe
An image of a galaxy cluster taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope gives a remarkable cross-section of the Universe, showing objects at different distances and stages in cosmic history.
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NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) Project
On April 9 reporters got a chance to don "bunny suits" (protective apparel that sometimes makes people look like large rabbits) and enter a NASA clean room at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
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NGC 1316: Galactic Serial Killer
Several clues in the structure of NGC 1316 reveal that its past was turbulent.
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Three Atmospheric 'Dragons': Low Pressure Areas Around the U.S.
There are three low pressure systems around the U.S. and they resemble dragons on satellite imagery. NOAA's GOES-13 and GOES-15 satellite image from March 31, 2014 shows the low pressure systems in the eastern Pacific Ocean, over the nation's Heartland, and in the eastern Atlantic Ocean.
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Satellite Shows High Productivity from U.S. Corn Belt
Five new NASA Earth science missions are launching in 2014 to expand our understanding of Earth's changing climate and environment.
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NASA SDO - Graceful Turbulence
Powerful magnetic forces above an active region spun and pulled at a blob of plasma until it lost its connections and blew out into space on March 26, 2014.
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First Day of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere
This full-disk image from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite was captured at 11:45 UTC (7:45 a.m. EDT) and shows the Americas on March 20, 2014. This date marks the start of astronomical spring in the northern hemisphere.
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HTV-4 Cargo Droid Lights Up The Night Sky as It Re-enters
A stationary camera onboard the International Space Station took this picture of the Japanese HTV-4 cargo spacecraft as it entered Earth's atmosphere on Sept. 7, 2013 subsequently burning up.