NASA mission launched to unveil secrets of Northern Lights
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The US space agency NASA has launched its first five-satellite mission on board a single rocket aiming to unlock the age-old mysteries of the aurora borealis.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Feb. 17 -- Five science satellites on a single rocket blasted off into a golden sunset Saturday on a mission to try to figure out the source of powerful geomagnetic substorms in the Earth's atmosphere.
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NASA's Messenger probe sends scientists a treasure-trove of data, and with two more flybys and an orbital mission to follow, these images are just the beginning.
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Scientists who have peered through space to a time when light first filled the universe urged NASA on Thursday to ensure a Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission includes a next generation infrared camera.
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By Mike Schneider  Flashes of flame from space shuttle Discovery lit up the darkened sky Saturday as the spacecraft blazed off the launch pad for the first nighttime liftoff in four years.
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Two University of New Hampshire space scientists have been awarded &#36;5 million to help NASA build instruments for missions beyond the solar system.
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Our atmosphere is home to many stunning optical phenomena; rainbows, lightning and fiery red sunsets to name but a few. For many, the Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis
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By Mike Schneider  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Discovery lit up the sky late Saturday, blazing off for the first nighttime space shuttle launch in four years - the latest step in NASA's ambitious schedule to complete the international space station.
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A proposed  NASA mission to study a mysterious force thought to be accelerating the  expansion of the universe should be the first in the agency&#39;s &quot;Beyond  Einstein&quot; program to be developed and launched, the National Research  Council recommended today.
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This image released Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2004, by NASA shows six of the three-dozen &quot;ultraviolet luminous galaxies&quot; spotted in our corner of the universe by NASA&#39;s Galaxy Evolution Explorer.
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NASA is about to embark on an unprecedented asteroid-belt mission with a spacecraft aptly named Dawn. The 3 billion-mile, eight-year journey to probe the earliest stages of the solar system will begin with liftoff, planned for just after sunrise Thursday. Rain is forecast, however, and could force a delay.
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NASA is set to launch a robotic spacecraft next month that will dig into the soil near the northern pole of Mars to check for conditions favorable to microbial life now or in the planet's past.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Feb. 17  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's THEMIS mission successfully launched Saturday, Feb. 17, at 6:01 p.m. EST from Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.  THEMIS stands for the Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms.
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The aurora borealis, or northern lights, is one of the sky's spectacular phenomena. Its energy source has never been completely understood. Until now.
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The U.S. space agency is planning a mission to better understand a mysterious form of energy in the cosmos and an ambitious unmanned journey to the outer solar system, NASA officials said.
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Nasa has announced that the launch of a pioneering mission to further understanding of the make-up of comets will take place in January next year.
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Work is underway to establish the first interplanetary laser communication link. The &#36;300 million NASA experiment, if successful, will connect robotic spacecraft at Mars with scientists back on Earth via a beam of light traveling some 300 million kilometers.