NASA
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NASA wants to get rid of that flying pollution factory you took to Florida
The agency announced it will spend the next two years trying to create a new type of aircraft with "maximum efficiency and minimal environmental impact.”
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Just like you, NASA wants to send your kids to Mars — but for different reasons
Watch the Human to Mars summit livestream this week, and see how NASA plans to get our asses to Mars.
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Terrifying video shows smog taking over the earth
NASA scientists tracked atmospheric currents for a year, and found increased air pollution was linked to stronger storms. Yipes.
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Forget aliens — these NASA drones track methane
The space agency is adapting technology used to test for life on Mars to help preserve it here on Earth.
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NASA once planned to feed astronauts emergency fruitcake
You have to love any story that begins, "During the 1970s and 1980s the US military conducted a series of tests on fruitcake."
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The Earth at night like you’ve never seen it before
NASA has put together these amazing composite pictures, drawn from images collected on cloud-free nights.
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Watch the moon landing live (with a 43-year delay)
In 2009, Jason Kottke built a site where you could watch the first moon landing as it happened, second by second, just 40 years late. Today, on the 43rd anniversary of the moon landing, you can still watch “live” coverage by Walter Cronkite, unfolding on YouTube just as it would have if you were clustered […]
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Spectacular image of the Southern Lights from space
If you need an excuse to love the planet, just hang around NASA’s site for a while — the images they post make it kind of hard not to feel awed about the Earth.
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Watch the formation of an iceberg twice the size of Manhattan
These images from NASA’s Earth Observatory show Greenland’s Petermann Glacier calving an iceberg — watch the lower right quadrant of the image to see the split go from a hairline crack to a visible break. The resulting iceberg is twice as big as Manhattan.