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Nasa begins development of Space Launch System flight software

(Phys.org) -- NASA engineers working on the new Space Launch System (SLS) can now begin developing the advanced, heavy-lift launch vehicle's flight software using newly delivered software test bed computers from Boeing. ...

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Image: Whitewater-Baldy complex fire

This image of the Whitewater-Baldy fire, in western New Mexico, was taken on Tuesday, May 29, 2012 at 2000 UTC (4:00 p.m. EDT) from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument that ...

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created May 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Greenland's current loss of ice mass

The Greenland ice sheet continues to lose mass and thus contributes at about 0.7 millimeters per year to the currently observed sea level change of about 3 mm per year. This trend increases each year by a further 0.07 millimeters ...

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created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Smoke from Whitewater-Baldy Complex fire affecting 6 states

(Phys.org) -- The Whitewater-Baldy Complex fires burning and rugged terrain in the Gila National Forest in western New Mexico have been generating a lot of smoke. The smoke has now been swept up by a cold ...

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New satellite movie chases post-Tropical Storm Alberto in Atlantic

On May 23, 2012, the remnants of post-tropical storm Alberto were chasing a frontal system over the Atlantic Ocean, several hundred miles east of the U.S. East coast. A new NASA animation of imagery from NOAA's GOES-15 satellite ...

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created May 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Alberto now a tropical depression

Infrared satellite imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite revealed Alberto weakened from a tropical storm to a tropical depression as it appears more disorganized. At 10:30 a.m. EDT on May 21, Tropical Storm Alberto ...

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Forest recovering from Mt. St. Helens explosion: research (w/ Video)

(Phys.org) -- Mt. St. Helens exploded 32 years ago on May 18. It began with a small series of earthquakes and culminated with the volcano erupting, a cataclysmic collapse of the flank of the mountain and the largest landslide ...

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created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

NASA goes on top of the Smokies, all covered in light rain

If you walk into a cloud at the top of a mountain with a cup to slake your thirst, it might take a while for your cup to fill. The tiny, barely-there droplets are difficult to see, and for scientists they, ...

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created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Image: Hubble peeks inside a stellar cloud

(Phys.org) -- These bright stars shining through what looks like a haze in the night sky are part of a young stellar grouping in one of the largest known star formation regions of the Large Magellanic Cloud ...

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created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

IBEX and TWINS join forces to observe a solar storm

(Phys.org) -- On April 5, 2010, the sun spewed a two million-mile-per-hour stream of charged particles toward the invisible magnetic fields surrounding Earth, known as the magnetosphere. As the particles interacted ...

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created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Satellite proposed to send solar power to Earth

(Phys.org) -- Artemis Innovation Management Solutions has been given some seed money by NASA to look deeper into a project the company first proposed last summer; namely, building a satellite that could collect ...

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created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (54) | comments 75 | with audio podcast report

Mysteries of the sun ... explained in video

NASA has just released five new videos called "Mysteries of the Sun". The videos describe the science of the sun and its effects on the solar system and Earth. Scientists study the sun not only to better understand ...

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created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Now Extra-Tropical Daphne, left flooding behind in Fuji on NASA satellite imagery

Tropical Storm Daphne has become an extra-tropical storm and is fading fast in the South Pacific Ocean, but not before making its mark on the Fuji Islands. NASA's TRMM satellite compiled rainfall data that ...

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created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

TWINS/IBEX spacecraft observed impact of powerful solar storm from inside and outside Earth's magnetosphere

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, instrumentation aboard two NASA missions operating from complementary vantage points watched as a powerful solar storm spewed a two million-mile-per-hour stream of charged ...

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created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

NASA sees more severe weather over eastern Texas, Oklahoma

A low pressure area is centered over eastern Oklahoma, and its associated cold front drapes south into eastern Texas. The front is stalled over eastern Texas and eastern Oklahoma and is generating severe weather ...

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