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NASA | Comet ISON's Path Through the Solar System
Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) may become one of the most dazzling in decades when it rounds the sun later this year. Like all comets, ISON is a clump of frozen gases mixed with dust. Often described as "dirty snowballs," comets emit gas and...
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NASA | Voices of MAVEN
On September 21, 2014, NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN mission, or MAVEN, went into orbit around the Red Planet. Its goal: to understand how a changing atmosphere transformed Mars from a warm, wet environment in its youth...
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NASA | The Mystery of Martian Methane
Mike Mumma and his team of researchers at Goddard Space Flight Center have made the first definitive observations of methane in the atmosphere of Mars. The evidence of methane plumes only during certain seasons and the chemical processes...
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NASA | Meet the SAM Team: Dan Carrigan
Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) is a suite of instruments developed for use on the Mars Science Laboratory. By looking for evidence of water, carbon, and other important building blocks of life in the Mars soil and atmosphere, this suite...
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NASA | Happy Birthday, Curiosity!
NASA's Curiosity rover celebrates its Martian birthday on August 5 (PDT), the day that it landed on Mars. In honor of this special ocassion, engineers at Goddard Space Flight Center are using the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument...
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NASA | Curiosity Rover Shakes, Bakes, and Tastes Mars with SAM
NASA's Curiosity rover analyzed its first solid sample of Mars with a variety of instruments, including the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite. Developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., SAM is a...
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Captures Puff, Whir, Zap Sounds from Mars
Listen closely to new sounds from Mars recorded by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, including puffs and pings from a rover tool, light Martian wind, the whirring of the agency's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, and laser zaps. Most of the...
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Thousands of Ancient Super Eruptions on Mars, Scientists Confirm
By studying the topography and mineral composition of a portion of the Arabia Terra region in northern Mars, scientists recently found evidence for thousands of “super eruptions,” which are the most violent volcanic explosions known....
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NASA | Using Color to Search for Alien Earths
NASA astronomer Lucy McFadden and UCLA graduate Carolyn Crow recently made a discovery that will help identify characteristics of extrasolar planets. By comparing the reflected red, blue, and green light from planets in our solar system,...
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NASA | Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) Trailer
Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) is a suite of instruments developed for use on the Mars Science Laboratory. By looking for evidence of water, carbon, and other important building blocks of life in the Mars soil and atmosphere, this suite...
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NASA | MAVEN MOI live shot with Sandra Cauffman
Sandra Cauffman gives a canned interview in Spanish for the 09/19/2014 MAVEN Mars Orbit Insertion liveshots.
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NASA | MAVEN MOI live shot with Kelly Fast
Kelly Fast gives a canned interview for the 09/19/2014 MAVEN Mars Orbit Insertion liveshots.
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NASA | Mars Landing Sites
The visualization shows the landing sites of all six NASA spacecraft to reach Mars—Viking 1, Viking 2, Pathfinder, Spirit, Opportunity, Phoenix—and the target location where Curiosity will touch down on August 6, 2012. Data collected by...
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NASA | Goddard Summer Interns: Andy Ryan
Andy Ryan is an intern staff assistant with the Lunar and Planetary Science Academy. This summer the LPSA traveled to the Channeled Scablands of eastern Washington to study and map the geology of the area, which serves as a planetary...
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NASA | Goddard In The Galaxy
This video highlights the many ways NASA Goddard Space Flight Center explores the universe. So crank up your speakers and let the music be your guide! "My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up)" Performed by Fall Out Boy...
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NASA | Astrogeologist Jim Rice
Meet Jim Rice, an astrogeologist whose work has taken him to every continent on the globe. Among the many activities he does as part of his work at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, some of Dr. Rice's favorites include participating in...
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Ordering Numbers in Scientific Notation (Part 2)
Order numbers in scientific notation.
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Why is Pluto not a planet?
I'm sure most of us grew up with the knowledge that Pluto was our solar system's ninth planet. So what changed about the definition?
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Origin stories of Earth and Mars involved massive collisions, not the slow buildup of pebbles
Earth and Mars were likely generated by regular collisions between giant Moon-to-Mars-size rocks, rather than tiny pebbles clumping together.
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NASA’s Mars 2020 rover successfully completes its first test drive
As part of NASA’s preparation for next year’s Mars mission, the Mars 2020 rover took its first driving test at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California on December 17.
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Phobos Photobombs Hubble’s Picture of Mars
When the Hubble Space Telescope observed Mars near opposition in May, 2016, a sneaky companion photobombed the picture. Phobos, the Greek personification of fear, is one of two tiny moons orbiting Mars. In 13 exposures over 22 minutes,...
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NASA | What is SAM?
Tucked inside the Curiosity rover is a miniature chemistry lab designed to unlock the secrets of Mars. Principal Investigator Paul Mahaffy, Deputy Principal Investigator Pamela Conrad, and MSL Participating Scientist Jennifer Eigenbrode...
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NASA | Targeting Mars
NASA's MAVEN spacecraft is quickly approaching Mars on a mission to study its upper atmosphere. When it arrives on September 21, 2014, MAVEN's winding journey from Earth will culminate with a dramatic engine burn, pulling the spacecraft...
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NASA | Solar Wind Strips Martian Atmosphere
Mars is a cold and barren desert today, but scientists think that in the ancient past it was warm and wet. The loss of the early Martian atmosphere may have led to this dramatic change, and one of the prime suspects is the solar wind....