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Earth And Space Weather Linked

Weather on Earth has a surprising connection to space weather occurring high in the electrically-charged upper atmosphere, known as the ionosphere, according to new results from NASA satellites.
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NASA's Shuttle Atlantis Begins Mission to the Space Station

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Space news // 08 September, 2006 11:09:33
 The Space Shuttle Atlantis and its six-member crew are on their way to the International Space Station after lifting-off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., at 11:14:55 a.m. EDT Saturday.

Scientists Find Possible Origin of Mysterious Red and Blue Lights in the Milky Way

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Space news // 03 August, 2006 11:08:11
 NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., in collaboration with university scientists, have solved yet another mystery.

CALIPSO lives up to sky-high expectations

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Space news // 24 July, 2006 04:07:45
 The CALIPSO spacecraft collected its first data recently, a major milestone for one of NASA's newest satellite missions.

Arctic, Antarctic, Mars

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Space news // 27 June, 2006 07:06:43
 The city of Hammerfest lies at the northern tip of Norway, well above the Arctic Circle. If you board a ship heading north from there, just before you reach the polar ice cap you run into a group of islands known as the Svalbard archipelago.

Hard-nosed Advice to Lunar Prospectors

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Space news // 23 May, 2006 07:05:10
 Long before David Beaty became associate Chief Scientist for NASA's Mars Program, he was a prospector. Beaty spent 10 years surveying remote parts of Earth for precious metals and another 12 years hunting for oil.

NASA to launch Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2008

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Space news // 17 May, 2006 12:05:59
 After successful completion of its mission confirmation review on Wednesday, May 17, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter project has been given the authority to proceed to the implementation phase.

Apollo seismic data give clues to lunar meteoroid impacts

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Space news // 02 May, 2006 01:05:40
 Up on the Moon, the sky is falling. "Every day, more than a metric ton of meteoroids hits the Moon," says Bill Cooke of the Marshall Space Flight Center's Meteoroid Environment Office.

In Search of Water, NASA Spacecraft to Hit the Moon

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Space news // 10 April, 2006 08:04:36
 NASA today announced that a small spacecraft, to be developed by a team at NASA Ames, has been selected to travel to the moon to look for precious water ice at the lunar south pole.

Magnetic Moondust

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Space news // 04 April, 2006 07:04:47
 Thirty-plus years ago on the moon, Apollo astronauts made an important discovery: Moondust can be a major nuisance. The fine powdery grit was everywhere and had a curious way of getting into things. Moondust plugged bolt holes, fouled tools, coated astronauts' visors and abraded their gloves. Very often while working on the surface, they had to stop what they were doing to clean their cameras and equipment using large--and mostly ineffective--brushes.

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