JPL to Host 'NASA Social' Highlighting Comets

NASA will hold a one-day NASA Social for up to 50 of its social media followers on Oct. 13, 2014, at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

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NASA's RapidScat: Some Assembly Required -- in Space

ISS-RapidScat will be the first science payload to be robotically assembled in space since the International Space Station itself.

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NASA Instrument aboard European Spacecraft Returns First Science Results

A NASA instrument aboard the European Space Agency’s (ESA's) Rosetta orbiter has successfully made its first delivery of science data from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.



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NASA Briefing: Space Station Earth Observations

NASA opens a new era this month in exploration of our home planet with the launch of the first in a series of Earth science instruments to the International Space Station.

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NASA Instrument on Rosetta: First Science Results

A NASA instrument aboard the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Rosetta orbiter has successfully made its first delivery of science data from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

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NASA Hosts Media Briefing to Announce New Earth-Observing Role for International Space Station

NASA opens a new era this month in its exploration of our home planet with the launch of the first in a series of Earth science instruments to the International Space Station. A media briefing on this addition to NASA’s Earth-observing program will air at 1 p.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 8, on NASA Television and the agency's website.



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Small Asteroid to Safely Pass Close to Earth Sunday

A house-sized asteroid will safely fly past Earth this Sunday, Sept. 7. The asteroid, 2014 RC, is about 60 feet (20 meters) wide.

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International Global Precipitation Measurement Mission Data Goes Public

The most accurate and comprehensive collection of rain, snowfall and other types of precipitation data ever assembled now is available to the public. This new resource for climate studies, weather forecasting, and other applications is based on observations by the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory, a joint mission of NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), with contributions from a constellation of international partner satellites.



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NASA Engineers Conduct Low Light Test on New Technology for Webb Telescope

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Icy Aquifers on Titan Transform Methane Rainfall

A new study suggests that the chemistry of methane rainfall on Saturn's moon Titan might change inside hydrocarbon "aquifers."

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Tracking Traces of Alternative Jet Fuels

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