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Auroral Rocket in Norway
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Published January 4, 2011
Photographers captured these digital photos of a four-stage Black Brant XII sounding rocket and the aurora borealis on December 12, 2010, during the NASA-funded Rocket Experiment for Neutral Upwelling (RENU).
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Glory on the Brunt Ice Shelf
Published November 16, 2010
One of NASA’s workhorse planes, the DC-8, is being used this month to provide critical insight on the health of the ice sheets and shelves at the southern tip of the world.
Kilauea Lava Enters the Ocean
Published October 5, 2010
Lava from Kilauea Volcano flows into the ocean near Kalapana, Hawaii.
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Global Hawk, NASA’s New Remote-Controlled Plane
Published March 30, 2010
The Global Hawk, NASA's new remote-controlled airplane, banks for a landing over Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base in California at the end of a test flight on October 23, 2009.
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Joanne Simpson, 1923-2010
Published March 9, 2010
Dr. Joanne Simpson (1923–2010) pores over reams of images of tropical clouds filmed during flights across the tropical Pacific. The photos and her hand-drawn maps of cloud formations became the foundation for her groundbreaking “hot towers” hypothesis about atmospheric circulation in the tropics.
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GOES-P Satellite Launches
Published March 6, 2010
This photo shows the GOES-P satellite launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on March 4, 2010.
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To the Moon! Lunar Missions Successfully Launch
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Published June 20, 2009
After waiting out a thunderstorm, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite rocketed off the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 5:32 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on June 18, 2009. This photograph captures the pair of spacecraft as they were lifting off.
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Earthrise 1966
Published November 15, 2008
Long before man journeyed to the moon and looked back at the tiny, fragile planet that houses humanity, lunar orbiters were sending back pictures of home.
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Earth and the Moon
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Published July 22, 2008
From 31 million miles away, how could you tell that there was life on Earth? Scientists used the remote vantage point of NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft to shoot a sequence of images that will help to help answer that question.
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Glacial Retreat
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Published May 15, 2007
Perhaps the most visible sign that Earth’s climate is warming is the gradual shrinking of its glaciers. In North America, the most visited glacier is the Athabasca Glacier, one of six glaciers that spill down the Canadian Rockies from the Columbia Icefield in western Canada.
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Remembering Yoram Kaufman
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Published June 8, 2006
Kaufman served as program manager for NASA’s Earth Observatory from its launch in April 1999, through January 2006.
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