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NASA’s Operation IceBridge Surveys Greenland and Earth’s Polar Ice Sheets
NASA's Operation IceBridge has begun the 2013 research season of Ice Science flights in Greenland and the Arctic to survey…
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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…
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…
In an Isolated, Ice-Covered Antarctic Lake Far Below Freezing, Life is Found
Lake Vida lies within one of Antarctica's cold, arid McMurdo Dry Valleys (Photo: Desert Research Institute) Even inside an almost…
Hunting for High Life: What Lives in Earth’s Stratosphere?
The Moon photographed through the layers of the atmosphere from the ISS in December 2003 (NASA/JSC) What lives at the…
Space Junk: Ideas for Cleaning up Earth Orbit
Caption: Artist's impression of debris in low earth orbit Credit: ESA Space may be big -- vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big…
Ecological Concerns in Losing Our Starry Night
[/caption] Images of the Earth at night, taken from space are always a stunning sight, with cities, countries and whole…
Is Earth Alive? Scientists Seek Sulfur For An Answer
[/caption] Researchers at the University of Maryland have discovered a way to identify and track sulfuric compounds in Earth's marine…
Chaos and Education at 120,000 feet for Camilla the Rubber Chicken
[/caption] In my travels, I've had the pleasure of regularly meeting up with Camilla the Rubber Chicken, the social media…
Go an Hour Without Power: Earth Hour 2012
You've seen all the videos and images we've been featuring lately that astronauts on the International Space Station have taken…