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How NASA helps gauge drought impact
2015-04-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Shortly before 5 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time on Friday, a small, nondescript Beechcraft Air King climbed from the runway at Mammoth Yosemite Airport, reached 15,300 feet and headed over the snow-starved Sierra Nevada. To anyone driving past the airport, nestled on the backside of the mountain range, the airplane's departure might have seemed like just another private plane taking off from a rural airfield. Instead, the 1960s-vintage, twin-engine turboprop NASA's Airborne Snow Observatory (ASO)...
NASA Covers Super Typhoon Maysak's Rainfall, Winds, Clouds, Eye
2015-04-02 04:41:21| rfglobalnet Home Page
NASA's fleet of satellites and instruments in space have covered Super Typhoon Maysak's rainfall, winds, clouds and an astronaut about the International Space Station captured a close-up photo of the storm's eye.
NASA to livestream flying saucer Mars lander test today [Updated]
2015-03-31 17:22:53| Extremetech
Watch NASA test its design for future Mars landers live.
NASA confirms Hubble telescope successor is on-time, on-budget for 2018
2015-03-30 20:26:28| Extremetech
NASA has confirmed that the James Webb Space Telescope is on-time and on-budget after years of delays and cost overruns. Can the telescope still launch on time and achieve its scientific targets?
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Budget cuts at NASA could kill Opportunity, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
2015-03-27 20:45:19| Extremetech
NASA has announced that it may have to cancel both the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the ongoing Opportunity mission due to budget shortfalls. Both projects could be vital to long-term colonization efforts on the Moon or Mars.
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