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Tracking Solar Electron Beams

By Staff Writers on August 20, 2012

NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) observes a wide array of particles that flow toward Earth from the sun to better understand the great... Read more →

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Radiation Belt Storm Probes Ready for Launch

By Pedro Vaz Teixeira on August 20, 2012

The RBSP probes being settled in an Atlas V faring (Credits: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory). NASA' Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP)... Read more →

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RocketMan Triathlon Races Through Kennedy Space Center

By Merryl Azriel on August 20, 2012

View from the race course: Kennedy Space Center (Credits: RocketMan Triathlon). On August 16, NASA's Kennedy Space Center announced the first... Read more →

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Radioactive Decay Predicts Solar Storms

By Merryl Azriel on August 20, 2012

Model of a solar neutrino event at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (Credits: LBL Research Review). With increasing orbital assets as well as... Read more →

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ISS Crew Gears Up for Spacewalks

By Maria Fischer on August 20, 2012

Astronaut David Wolf attaches a camera to ISS with help from Canadarm2 on a 2002 EVA (Credits: NASA/Science Photo Library). Astronauts and... Read more →

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Robotic Space Bugs Monitor Blood On Earth

By Staff Writers on August 17, 2012

"Space bug" prototypes (Credits: V. Djakov). Source: ESA Thanks to ideas of putting swarms of tiny robot bugs to work on a future space... Read more →