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Sunspot 1302 Continues to Turn Toward Earth

By Andrea Gini on September 26, 2011

Source NASA: Behemoth sunspot 1302 unleashed another strong flare on Saturday morning--an X1.9-category blast at 5:40 am EDT. NASA's Solar... Read more →

Meteorites

October Meteor Shower, Potential Danger to Spacecraft

By Andrea Gini on September 26, 2011

Perseid meteor shower on August 13, 2011, captured by NASA astronaut Ron Garan from the ISS (Credits: NASA/Ron Garan). The annuyal Draconid... Read more →

News

Video: X-Class Flare With Coronal Mass Ejection

By Andrea Gini on September 26, 2011

The Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an X-Class flare and related coronal mass ejection on September 7th into September 8th.  The hot plasma can... Read more →

Press Releases

NASA Completes Orion Spacecraft Parachute Testing In Arizona

By Andrea Gini on September 25, 2011

Test of the Orion parachute recovery system, derived from the system NASA used to recover the Apollo spacecraft (Credits: U.S.... Read more →

Space Exploration

NASA Releases ISECG Global Exploration Map

By Andrea Gini on September 25, 2011

NASA, one of the members of ISECG, released the initial version of  a Global Exploration Roadmap (GER) developed by the  International Space... Read more →

Media

NASA Documentary About UARS

By Andrea Gini on September 25, 2011

This 17-minute video, produced in 1999, discusses details of the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite... Read more →