Science

Let It Go! SMAP Almost Ready to Map Frozen Soil

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SMAP will monitor the frozen or thawed state of the global landscape north of 45 degrees north latitude.

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New NASA Mission to Study Ocean Color, Airborne Particles and Clouds

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New measurements by NASA’s PACE spacecraft will advance our understanding of how living marine resources respond to a changing climate....

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Circular Polarization Spectroscopy of Microscopic Samples: CRAIC Technologies announces the addition of circular polarization spectroscopy capabilities to CRAIC Technologies microspectrophotometers

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On Pi Day, How Scientists Use This Number

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Pi Day challenge Take JPL Education's Pi Day challenge featuring real-world questions about NASA spacecraft -- then tweet...

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Mars: The Planet that Lost an Ocean’s Worth of Water

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ORNL microscopy directly images problematic lithium dendrites in batteries

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ORNL electron microscopy captured the first real-time nanoscale images of the nucleation and growth of lithium dendrite structures known to...

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Iranian Scientists Apply Nanotechnology to Produce Electrical Insulator

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Use of Rover Arm Expected to Resume in a Few Days

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This March 4, 2015, image from the Navcam on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the position in which the rover held its arm...

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