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A Bit of Gray on an Emerald Isle
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Ireland is best known for its many greens, but the striking grays of the island's Burren region also stand out in satellite images.

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NASA Eyes New Date for Artemis II Rocket Rollout
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Teams are now targeting no earlier than Friday, March 20, to roll NASA’s Artemis II rocket from the Vehicle Assembly Building out to Launch Pad 39B, maintaining the opportunity for a Wednesday, April 1, launch attempt. Over the weekend at…

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NASA Invites Media to Learn About Upcoming X-59 Test Flights
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NASA will hold a media teleconference at 5:30 p.m. EDT on Thursday, March 19 to highlight plans for its X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft’s upcoming flight tests. The teleconference is set to take place after the X-59 is scheduled to complete…

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To Protect Artemis II Astronauts, NASA Experts Keep Eyes on Sun 
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As four astronauts travel around the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II mission, they will venture beyond Earth’s protective magnetic field. The crew’s spacecraft, Orion, will carry and protect them as they journey into deep space and serves as the main protection against…

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes 27th Swing Around the Sun
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 27th close approach to the Sun on March 11, again matching its record distance of 3.8 million miles (6.2 million kilometers) from the solar surface. The flyby allowed the spacecraft to conduct measurements of…

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Progress 92 Cargo Spacecraft Undocks, Crew Preps for Upcoming Spacewalk
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Spacewalk preparations and the undocking of a cargo spacecraft kicked off the week for the Expedition 74 crew aboard the International Space Station.

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Roscosmos Progress Cargo Spacecraft Departs Station
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The unpiloted Roscosmos Progress 92 spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station at 9:24 a.m. EDT Monday, backing away for a deorbit maneuver and a planned destructive re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere to dispose of trash loaded by the crew. 

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Cañon Fiord’s Whirling Waters
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During the 2022 summer melt season, sediment plumes and fractured sea ice traced swirling eddies in a branch of the Nansen Sound fjord system in the Canadian Arctic.

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Volunteers Find Oddly High Solar Flare Rates
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Patches of the Sun’s surface often show strong magnetic fields. These fields can emerge within a matter of hours, and can decay slowly or quickly, sometimes over days, weeks, or even months. Thanks to a new study about these long-lived…

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Extra Extra! Extra Data Stream Added to the Daily Minor Planet!
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The Daily Minor Planet citizen science project is expanding! In addition to data received nightly from the Catalina Sky Survey's Mt. Lemmon telescope in Arizona, the project’s science team is now processing images from the Bok 2.3-meter telescope at Kitt…

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