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  • were launched by the European Space Agency. NASA has launched the Rossi X-ray ... * [http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/ NASA's Imagine the Universe!] ...
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  • Martian sand and boulders, photographed by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover ... jpg‎|thumb|400px|Regolith beneath NASA's [[Phoenix (spacecraft ...
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  • gases. The transonic dynamics tunnel at NASA Langley is an example of such ... less. An example of a V/STOL tunnel is the NASA Langley 14' x 22' tunnel. ...
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  • . However, NASA reported in November of 2006 that the Cassini spacecraft ... On March 10, 2006, NASA reported that the Cassini probe found evidence ...
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  • [http://history.nasa.gov/hubble/index.html A Brief History of the ... and the era of faster, better, cheaper at NASA. Tucson, AZ: University of ...
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  • whereas on the ISS, most are brought aboard NASA's shuttle. This method ... providing launch vehicles, and a desire by NASA to cease Saturn and Apollo ...
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  • receive the same training as professional NASA astronauts and were not employed ... strong opposition from senior figures at NASA. Space Adventures remains ...
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  • [[Image:NASA ASMR-E image of average SSTs of Hurricane Katrina.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Average sea surface temperatures for the Caribbean Atlantic ...
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  • Four days after Powers disappeared, NASA issued a very detailed press release noting that an aircraft had “gone missing” north of Turkey ...
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  • The result motivated NASA to sponsor a couple of summer workshops ... current existence is a proof considered by NASA studies. It's likely ...
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  • * [http://www-curator.jsc.nasa.gov/antmet/ Antarctic Meteorites at NASA] * [http://www.meteoriticalsociety.org/ The Meteoritical Society] ...
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  • [http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/learning_center/ASM/ns.html ... _Of_Neutron_Star_In_Starquake.html NASA Sees Hidden Structure Of Neutron ...
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  • from the sun. (Phillips [http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/02jul_aphelion ... and Arvydas Kliore, [http://descanso.jpl.nasa.gov/Propagation/mars/MarsPub_sec1 ...
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  • external fuel tanks for this purpose, but NASA determined that the potential ... * Gump, David. 1990. Space Enterprise: Beyond NASA. New York, NY: ...
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  • equipment in mining operations. Each of NASA's Space Shuttles has ... technological applications. One example is NASA's Space Shuttle, which ...
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  • or about 70 °F). However, in 1991, scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (USA) succeeded in making the first pure H2CO3 samples. They ...
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  • quinoa is considered a possible crop in NASA's Controlled Ecological ... * Schlick, G., and D.L. Bubenheim. 1993. [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi ...
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  • interferometer developed by JPL for NASA and installed at Palomar Observatory ... *Scientists using the NASA Swift satellite and several ground-based ...
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  • image (or "direct-image" in NASA terminology) of Betelgeuse ... [[File:Betelgeuse – NASA.jpg|thumb|Betelgeuse imaged in ultraviolet ...
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  • [http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_mm/mr_limits.html Some Theories Win, Some ... *[http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/1e0657/ NASA Finds Direct ...
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  • Several NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts-funded studies are exploring ... In 1999, NASA calculated that antimatter was the most expensive substance ...
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  • Fred Espenak, [http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEhelp/SEglossary.html ... * NASA. [http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse.html Eclipse Home Page ...
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  • ! Orbital period(d)NASA, [http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/profile ... Donald K. Yeomans, 2006, [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?sat_phys_par Planetary ...
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  • NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System (STS), was the United States government's manned launch vehicle ...
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  • It was not until spacecraft visited the planet during NASA's ... land.David R. Williams, [http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/marsfact ...
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  • level (geostationary orbit).[http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast07sep_1 ... in the 1990s, engineer David Smitherman of NASA/Marshall's Advanced Projects ...
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  • its 1000th comet[http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/comet1000/ The SOHO 1000th ... a program scientist for Rosetta from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...
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  • circling it three times. Before joining NASA, Glenn was a distinguished ... military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA as the United States' ...
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  • [[Image: NGC_4414_(NASA-med).jpg|right|thumb|350px|NGC 4414, a typical ... of stars observed in the constellation of Taurus. NASA photo]] ...
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  • * [http://www.astrochem.org/ The Astrochemistry Lab at NASA Ames Research Center] Category:Physical sciences Category:Astronomy Category:Chemistry ...
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  • a drop in air pressure around the aircraft.NASA, [http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa ... NASA, [http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/Timeline/1945-49 ...
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  • Source for figures above: [http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/earthfact ... *[http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/earthfact.html NASA ...
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  • the aircraft (see Prandtl-Glauert Singularity).NASA, [http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070819.html Astronomy Picture of the Day: August 19, 2007: ...
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  • [https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/SEsaros010.html Saros Series ... [https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/LEsaros/LEsaros010.html Saros Series ...
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  • [[Image:Amazon-river-delta-NASA.jpg|thumb|400px|A satellite image ... [[Image:Amazon-river-NASA.jpg|thumb|350px|right|A NASA satellite image ...
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  • will be in orbit. Several design groups at NASA and elsewhere have examined ... air/spacecraft under development by NASA and other organizations, both ...
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  • |caption= M1, the Crab Nebula. Courtesy of NASA/ESA | type = Supernova ... NASA, [http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap011227.html Animation showing expansion ...
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  • NASA's Ames Research Center operates the Vertical Motion Simulator. ... *[http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/pdf/88787main_Black_Magic.pdf ...
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  • He was selected as one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts in ... retirement from the United States Navy and NASA on August 1, 1974. He was ...
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  • surface, presented by Dale Cruikshank of NASA/Ames Research Center (a New ... Hubble Space Telescope in 2011,[https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science ...
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  • motivated the Department of Defense, NASA, and other industries to apply ... A Future for Systems Engineering Tools,] NASA. Retrieved September 9, 2008.. ...
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  • * [http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_mm.html Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe] NASA. Category:Physical sciences Category:Physics Category:Geology ...
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  • [[Image:NASA Tierra del Fuego image.jpg|thumb|260px|A true-color image of Tierra del Fuego captured by NASA's Terra satellite on March ...
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  • Recent examination of Jupiter's surface by a NASA research team ... NASA is planning a mission to study Jupiter in detail from a polar ...
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  • *[http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020130.html APOD Moon Illusion page] ... *[http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/watchtheskies/20jun_moonillusion ...
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  • is currently held by the experimental NASA X-43, which reached nearly ... the XCOR EZ-Rocket; and there is of course NASA's Space Shuttle. ...
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  • cellular phones and personal computers. Each of NASA's space shuttles has a coating of roughly 34,000 ceramic tiles, which protect it from the searing ...
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  • Mike Carlowicz, [http://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/news/9812/solarwind ... [http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/rhessi_tgf.html Flashes ...
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  • J. A. Dunne and E. Burgess, [http://history.nasa.gov/SP-424/ch9.htm “The ... The only spacecraft to approach Mercury so far has been NASA's ...
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  • *Phillips, Tony. 2001. [http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast26oct_1 ... *[http://www.spaceweather.com/ Spaceweather.com] Official NASA site ...
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  • NASA, [http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-152 NASA Confirms Liquid Lake on Saturn Moon,] Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved ...
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  • #039;s account reveals a disconnect between NASA's engineers and executives ... that made up the solid fuel booster. NASA managers recorded this result ...
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  • this report are available at [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?constants Astrodynamic Constants], a NASA Web site. Retrieved December 4, 2007.) ...
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  • * NASA Lunar Eclipse Page. http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/lunar.html. Retrieved December 12, 2007. == External links == All links retrieved ...
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  • as observed in the Eagle Nebula, depicted in NASA's famous image known as the Pillars of Creation. In these regions, the formations of gas ...
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  • [http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1959-012A Luna ... * Stern, D. P., and M. Peredo. 2004-09-28. [http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa ...
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  • up to giants with one trillion (1012) stars,[http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pa ... June 11, 2018. Credit:Hubble Space Telescope/NASA/ESA.]] ...
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  • 25, 1989. In 2003, there was a proposal to NASA's "Vision Missions ... the size of Eurasia, was discovered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft ...
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  • back to at least the thirteenth century.NASA, [https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k ... weapons by the Mongols against the Magyars.NASA, [http://science.ksc.nasa ...
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  • [[Image:Black-Sea-NASA.jpg|thumb|right|275px|Illustration of the Black ... bloom that can be seen in many NASA images of the region. ...
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  • soft landing capsule (NASA)]] [[Image:Cassini Saturn Orbit Insertion ... *NASA STS Space Shuttle/Orbiter ( 109000|kg|ton|disp=/ ) ...
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  • Three years later, NASA addressed the issue of planetary engineering ... In March 1979, NASA engineer and author James Oberg organized the ...
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  • [http://history.nasa.gov/animals.html A Brief History of Animals in ... USA, with an Italian Launch Team trained by NASA. [http://nssdc.gsfc ...
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  • [[Image:Aswan High Dam.jpg|thumb|250px|Aswan High Dam (NASA satellite photo)]] The Aswan Dam is a rock fill dam, a type of dam that relies on ...
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  • Bangladesh - Photo: [http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/viewrecord?10980 ... * Hardin, Mary and Ralph Kahn. [http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/Aerosols/ ...
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  • NASA's Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have visited the planet ... * [https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/uranusfact.html ...
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  • NASA was established by law on July 29 1958. Two years later, NASA ... D.C., when he was assigned the post of NASA's Deputy Associate Administrator ...
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  • operations. Space agencies such as NASA, ESA, and other agencies use telemetry/telecommand systems to collect data from operating spacecraft ...
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  • Space Medal of Honor, presented by NASA for extraordinary accomplishment to the mission of United States space exploration. ==Design== ...
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  • * Pamela Ann Melroy, NASA Astronaut. * Reena Raggi, federal judge on ... Image:Pamela Melroy.jpg|Pamela Anne Melroy, NASA astronaut ...
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  • [https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/spotlight/20060807.html Winter Solstice on Mars: Rovers Look Forward to A Second Martian Spring]. NASA Jet Propulsion ...
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  • [[File:NASA-14147-EarthDay20140422-GlobalSelfie-20140522.jpg|thumb ... For Earth Day in 2014, NASA invited people around the world to step ...
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  • [https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/SEsaros002.html Saros Series ... [https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/LEsaros/LEsaros002.html Saros Series ...
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  • of water. However, more recent images from NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper ... From the 1950s through the 1990s, NASA aerodynamicist Dean Chapman ...
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  • * Hahn, Michael. [http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2004-00027.html Bessie Coleman, First African American Pilot] Great Images in NASA, October ...
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  • The first satellites designed to observe the Sun were NASA's ... The Skylab space station, launched by NASA in 1973, included a solar ...
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  • and the Johnson Space Center, where the NASA's Mission Control Center ... growth, as did the establishment in 1961 of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center ...
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  • NASA, [http://history.nasa.gov/flats.html Lovelace Woman in Space ... before NASA canceled the program. Congress held hearings on the matter ...
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  • right|300px|A computer generated model of NASA's X-43A hypersonic research ... *[https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/what ...
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  • NASA Eclipse Website, [http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/SEsaros0 ... NASA Eclipse Website, [https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/LEsaros/LEsaros006 ...
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  • version used in the Apollo Project, following a NASA decision in 1964. * For Venus, the form "-cytherion" is derived from the commonly ...
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  • [[Image:NASA-Apollo8-Dec24-Earthrise.jpg|thumb|Earth as seen from ... photograph of the Earthrise over the moon (NASA image AS8-14-2383HR) taken ...
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  • GE went on to develop this technology with NASA and McDonnell Aircraft, leading ... UTC Power continues to be the sole supplier of fuel cells to NASA ...
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  • UTC, and it was the fifth crewed mission of NASA's Apollo program. The ... by the Numbers: A Statistical Reference NASA History Series SP-4029 (Washington ...
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  • overcome by the interstellar galactic wind.NASA, [http://voyager.jpl.nasa ... * [http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/index.cfm NASA's Solar System ...
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  • [[Image:Chesapeakelandsat.jpeg|thumb|right|300px|The Chesapeake Bay ... United States Navy, Coast Guard, Air Force, NASA, Marines, and Army facilities ...
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  • the magnetosphere. The THEMIS mission is a NASA program to study in detail ... * Stern, D.P., and M. Peredo. Nov. 20, 2003. [http://www-istp.gsfc ...
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  • D.N. Spergel, et al., [http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/map/current/map_ ... * [http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020529.html "Astronomy ...
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  • Armstrong joined the NASA Astronaut Corps in the second group, which ... After he resigned from NASA in 1971, Armstrong taught in the Department ...
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  • NASA Earth Observatory, [http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/wardhunt/ ... glacier in Quttinirpaaq National Park (from NASA Earth Observatory; [http://earthobservatory ...
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  • [[Image:20G centrifuge.jpg|thumb|200px|The 20 G centrifuge at the NASA Ames Research Center.]] Human centrifuges are exceptionally large, designed ...
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  • NASA, [https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/SEsaros009.html Saros ... NASA, [https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/LEsaros/LEsaros009.html Saros ...
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  • the collapse of the World Trade Center. NASA uses fire protection engineers on its space program to ensure safety. ===Geotechnical engineering=== ...
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  • The Far-Infrared Absolute Spectrophotometer(FIRAS) instrument on the ... The most famous experiment is probably the NASA Cosmic Background Explorer ...
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  • technology available. Yet, even if all of NASA and the European Space Agency ... open to a number of prominent scientists. NASA's Mars Lander probes ...
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  • NASA Eclipse Website, [https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/SEsaros005 ... NASA Eclipse Website, [https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/LEsaros/LEsaros005 ...
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  • Clusters of Galaxies]. Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA. Retrieved February 18, 2009.: * Large clouds of hot gas (or plasma) (at 30 to 100 million ...
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  • of AMROC's (American Rocket Company) motors at NASA's Stennis Space Center's E1 test stand. Motors ranging from as small as 1000 lbf (4 ...
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  • NASA, [https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/SEsaros008.html Saros ... NASA, [https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/LEsaros/LEsaros008.html Saros ...
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  • of the Reserve. Liu's research team, using NASA's satellite images and records of population, concluded that due to tourism and the increase ...
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