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NASA Science news is too exciting for plain text. Educational "ScienceCast" videos are fun, lively, entertaining--anything but plain. Join us for a new episode weekly as we look into the science behind discoveries on Earth, the Solar System, and beyond...
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ScienceCast 172: The Strange Way Fluids Slosh on the International Space Station
Researchers are using a pair of robots to examine the ...
Researchers are using a pair of robots to examine the strange way fluids slosh and bubble on the International Space Station
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ScienceCast 171: Embers from a Rock Comet: The 2014 Geminid Meteor Shower
Earth is passing through a stream of debris from "rock ...
Earth is passing through a stream of debris from "rock comet" 3200 Phaethon, source of the annual Geminid meteor shower. Forecasters expect as many as 120 meteors per hour when the shower peaks on Dec. 13-14.
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ScienceCast 170: Climate Change and the Yin-Yang of Polar Sea Ice
Arctic and Antarctic sea ice are both affected by climate ...
Arctic and Antarctic sea ice are both affected by climate change, but the two poles of Earth are behaving in intriguingly different ways.
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ScienceCast 169: Young Volcanoes on the Moon
The Moon might not be as dead as it looks. ...
The Moon might not be as dead as it looks. Researchers using NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have found signs of geologically-recent volcanic eruptions on Earth's natural satellite.
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ScienceCast 168: How to Land on a Comet
The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft is about to attempt ...
The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft is about to attempt something "ridiculously difficult" - landing a probe on the surface of a speeding comet.
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ScienceCast 167: Sunset Solar Eclipse
On October 23rd, the Moon will pass in front of ...
On October 23rd, the Moon will pass in front of the sun, off-center, producing a partial solar eclipse visible in most of the United States.
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ScienceCast 166: The Cloudy Future of Arctic Sea Ice
NASA is flying an innovative airborne mission to find out ...
NASA is flying an innovative airborne mission to find out how changes in Arctic sea ice will affect worldwide weather.
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ScienceCast 165: First Light for MAVEN
NASA's MAVEN spacecraft has reached Mars and it is beaming ...
NASA's MAVEN spacecraft has reached Mars and it is beaming back "First Light" images of the Red Planet's upper atmosphere.
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ScienceCast 164: A Giant Among Earth Satellites
The weekend launch of ISS-RapidScat onboard SpaceX-4 has kickstarted a ...
The weekend launch of ISS-RapidScat onboard SpaceX-4 has kickstarted a new era for the International Space Station as a giant Earth-observing satellite.
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ScienceCast 163: A Colorful Lunar Eclipse
Mark your calendar: On Oct. 8th, the Moon will pass ...
Mark your calendar: On Oct. 8th, the Moon will pass through the shadow of Earth for a total lunar eclipse. Sky watchers in the USA will see the Moon turn a beautiful shade of celestial red and maybe turquoise, too.
