This is an RSS file. You'll need an RSS reader, like the ones at http://blogspace.com/rss/readers to make use of the information. http://science.nasa.gov The Science and Technology Directorate at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center sponsors the Science@NASA web sites. The mission of Science@NASA is to help the public understand how exciting NASA research is and to help NASA scientists fulfill their outreach responsibilities. en phillips@spacesciences.com MSFC-SNGCurator@mail.nasa.gov http://science.nasa.gov/images/HomeXtra/SNGLogo.gif http://science.nasa.gov/images/HomeXtra/SNGLogo.gif 122 90 Direct to People! http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/05feb_sdo.htm The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), slated for liftoff on Feb. 9th, will make IMAX-quality movies of solar explosions, peer beneath the stellar surface to see the sun's inner dynamo, and--researchers hope--unravel the mysteries of solar variability. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/02feb_asteroidcollision.htm NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streamers of dust that suggest a head-on collision between two asteroids. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/29jan_firefly.htm There's a mystery in the skies of Earth: Something is producing bright flashes of gamma radiation in the upper atmosphere of our own planet. A new NASA-NSF mission called Firefly is going to investigate. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/26jan_mars.htm This week Earth and Mars are having a close encounter. On Jan. 27th, the Red Planet will be only 99 million kilometers away and look bigger through a telescope than at any time between 2008 and 2014. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/26jan_spirit.htm NASA announced today that Mars rover Spirit cannot be freed from its Martian sandtrap. Now the rover will begin a second career as a stationary science platform.