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A Valentine From Voyager
On February 14, 1990, after nearly 13 years of travel through the outer Solar System, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft crossed…
An Enormous Arctic Spiral
Looking south across the southern tip of Greenland, this satellite image shows an enormous cloud vortex spiraling over the northern…
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NASA: Reaches for New Heights – Greatest Hits Video
http://youtu.be/HsA_BsH0QxM Video Caption: At NASA, we've been a little busy: landing on Mars, developing new human spacecraft, going to the…
Global Temperatures Continue to Rise
This week, scientists at NASA released their global climate analysis for 2012 which revealed that Earth continues to experience warmer…
Space Station Gets a New Telescope
Astronauts on the International Space Station today are installing a new modified Celestron telescope. This won’t be used to observe…
New South Pole Marker Honors Planets, Pluto, and Armstrong
The new geographic South Pole marker that stands at 90º S latitude. (Credit: Jeffrey Donenfeld) Because the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station…
AR1654 is a Monster Sunspot. (And It’s Aiming Our Way.)
Active Region 1654 on the Sun's western limb, seen by SDO on Jan. 11 (NASA/SDO/HMI team. Diagram by J. Major.)…
What Craters on the Moon Teach Us About Earth
When the Moon was receiving its highest number of impacts, so was Earth. Credit: Dan Durda Some questions about our…
Astronaut Captures Incredible Images of Australian Bush Fires
Intense wild fires, or bush fires as they are called in Australia, are burning out of control across southeast Australia…
Stunning View from Orbit: Dramatic Volcanoes at Dawn
A stunning view from orbit! Astronaut Chris Hadfield captured this shot of the volcanoes of Kamchatka in Russia. “Volcanoes look…