Food for thought.. Teachers!

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NASA Radar System Surveys Napa Valley Quake Area

A JPL-developed airborne radar system is conducting an airborne survey of earthquake fault displacements caused by the Aug. 24 magnitude 6.0 quake in Napa Valley, California.

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Memory Reformat Planned for Opportunity Mars Rover

An increasing frequency of computer resets on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has prompted the rover team to make plans to reformat the rover's flash memory.

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NASA Opens Media Accreditation for Orion Move in Preparation for First Flight

Media accreditation now is open to attend an event marking the move of NASA's Orion spacecraft at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spacecraft will be transferred from the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building to the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility during the second week of September.



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NASA Probes Studying Earth’s Radiation Belts to Celebrate Two Year Anniversary

NASA's twin Van Allen Probes will celebrate on Saturday two years of studying the sun’s influence on our planet and near-Earth space. The probes, shortly after launch in August 2012, discovered a third radiation belt around Earth when only two had previously been detected.



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Hubble Looks at Light and Dark in the Universe

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Mississippi and Louisiana Students Get Out-of-This-World Start to the School Year

Students from Mississippi and Louisiana will gather at the INFINITY Science Center in Pearlington, Mississippi, for a long-distance call with NASA astronauts currently orbiting Earth aboard the International Space Station.



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NASA's Spitzer Telescope Witnesses Asteroid Smashup

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted an eruption of dust around a young star, possibly the result of a smashup between large asteroids. This type of collision can eventually lead to the formation of planets.



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NASA's Spitzer Telescope Witnesses Asteroid Smashup

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted an eruption of dust around a young star, possibly the result of a smashup between large asteroids.

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Artist Concept: Space Launch System Takes Flight

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#RosettaAreWeThereYet winners announced

Tweet A sincere thank you to all the participants who submitted their #RosettaAreWeThereYet photos! Shown below are the two overall winning entries that particularly attracted the attention of the judges because of the way they captured some of the key themes of the Rosetta mission. The ‘Rosetta mission in a bottle’ submitted by Elisabetta Bonora, featuring one of our paper Rosetta and Philae models safely encased in a bottle and photographed underwater, gives the feeling of a technical challenge, as well as relating to the mission's long journey and to its goal of studying the origin of Earth’s oceans. The other top winning entry, taken by Emanuele Andreola on top of Gran Paradiso in the Graian Alps - a mountain that is about 4 km high, just like Comet 67P/C-G! - suggests a parallel between the Rosetta mission and mountaneering, both requiring long preparation, training and travelling times, not to mention the ability to face the unknown and be aware of the risks. We are delighted to invite our two top prize winners, to our European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, to join us for the VIP event celebrating the first-ever landing on a comet, in November. A further ten out of the top 20 publicly voted entries were also chosen by the judges to receive a gift bag containing a selection of ESA-branded souvenirs. The entries from these ten runners up are shown below. More information (including the names of the ten runners up and links to their entries) in the full article on the ESA Portal. In addition, 10 additional participants will receive gift bags: these 'lucky dip' winners will be drawn live from all remaining entries during our next Rosetta Google+ Hangout on Tuesday 2 September. This animation shows the huge variety of locations across the […]



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