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NASA recreates 80,000 years of moon exposure to confirm sun can create water
For decades, scientists have wondered how the moon can have water. It’s dry, airless, and lacks an atmosphere, so the ...
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How AI is helping scientists unlock some of the sun's deepest secrets
AI can bridge the growing gap between new and old solar observations and help scientists uncover overlooked aspects of our ...
The Dust Awakens: NASA Captures Spring Storm Surge Over China’s Harshest Desert
In China’s Tarim Basin, spring brings fierce dust storms fueled by dry landscapes and shifting winds. NASA satellites ...
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NASA's daredevil solar spacecraft survives 2nd close flyby of our sun
"This mission's trailblazing research is rewriting the textbooks on solar science by going to a place no human-made object ...
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Data set updates: New NASA Earthdata Cloud access option for NASA Nimbus Data Rescue Project data sets
The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) added 20 Nimbus data sets from the NASA SnowEx collection to NASA Earthdata Cloud on 15 April 202 ...
A NASA spacecraft will make another close pass of the sun
NEW YORK (AP) — A NASA spacecraft will make another close brush with the sun, the second of three planned encounters through the sizzling solar atmosphere. The Parker Solar Probe made its ...
How NASA science data defends Earth from asteroids
YR4 made headlines in February with the news that it had a chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, as determined by an ...
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NASA spacecraft set for second close encounter with the sun—what it hopes to learn
NASA won’t receive data from Parker until Tuesday afternoon. The Parker Solar Probe was designed to get closer to the sun than any spacecraft in history. Its mission is to study the solar wind ...
NASA experiment shows solar wind might make water on the moon
Scientists have hypothesized since the 1960s that the sun is a source of ingredients that form water on the moon. When a ...
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A NASA spacecraft will make another close pass of the sun
NEW YORK (AP) — A NASA spacecraft will make ... Scientists hope the data from Parker will help them better understand why the sun’s outer atmosphere is hundreds of times hotter than its ...