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Pair of NASA spacecraft to suicide into lunar mountain on Monday

Evan Ackerman
Friday, December 14, 2012 - 5:22pm
 
For the past year, two spacecraft the size of washing machines have been orbiting the Moon in formation, mapping out gravitational anomalies by precisely measuring the distance between them. Now they're all done, and to celebrate, NASA is about to slam 'em both into a lunar mountain at a couple thousand miles an hour.

NASA's Paint by Particle model shows a vibrant world in motion

Eileen Marable
Sunday, November 18, 2012 - 9:43am
 
NASA has a huge arsenal of equipment set up to monitor the Earth's atmosphere. Satellites, balloons bearing instruments and ground devices all take up to 30 million observations every day. That alone provides interesting and important data but they are just pieces of the puzzle; a complete picture of all the activity in the Earth's atmosphere is only visible after the various data is layered together through climate modeling.

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