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This Week at NASA…

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Following the docking of their Soyuz capsule,
the newest residents of the International

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Space Station were welcomed to the place they’ll
call home for the next five months.

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Expedition 33/34 Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy
of the Russian Federal Space Agency, NASA

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Flight Engineer Kevin Ford and Russian Flight
Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin were warmly greeted

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by station Commander Suni Williams of NASA,
Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace

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Exploration Agency and Russian Flight Engineer
Yuri Malenchenko.

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The Expedition crew will continue to expand
the scope of research aboard the ISS, taking

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advantage of its unique microgravity environment,
performing experiments that cover human research,

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biological and physical sciences, technology
development, Earth observations and education.

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“We don’t know exactly where the leak
is, it’s possible the leak is in the PVR

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itself, the radiator itself it could be in
the pump system or it could be in any one

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of the lines.”

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A station spacewalk by Suni Williams and Aki
Hoshide is scheduled for November first.

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ISS program managers met with the media at
the Johnson Space Center to discuss repairs

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the duo will perform to close an ammonia leak
on one of the station’s port-side radiators.

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Ammonia circulated through the station’s
external thermal control system keeps cool

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the orbiting laboratory’s electronics and
other equipment.

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The November first EVA is scheduled to begin
at 8:15 a.m Eastern and last approximately

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6-and-a-half hours.

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Several days before the spacewalk, on October
28, the ISS crew will send off the visiting

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Dragon spacecraft for its return to Earth.

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The SpaceX cargo craft has been attached to
the station since October 10, when it delivered

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about a half-ton of supplies.

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The successful return of Dragon this Sunday
with more than 12-hundred pounds of scientific

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material and station hardware will confirm
that the nation once again has the ability

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to transport supplies between Earth and the
orbiting laboratory.

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Same day splashdown and recovery of Dragon
is expected to happen in the Pacific Ocean

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off the coast of southern California.

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Dragon’s CRS-1 mission is the first commercial
cargo resupply mission to the station by SpaceX.

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Ferrying astronauts to and from the ISS is
a step closer for Blue Origin.

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NASA’s commercial crew program partner conducted
a successful pad escape test at the company's

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West Texas Launch Site, firing its pusher
escape motor and launching a full-scale suborbital

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crew capsule from a propulsion module simulator.

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NASA is working with commercial companies
to develop space transportation systems that

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can carry humans to low Earth orbit and the
International Space Station by 2017.

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Those watching Hurricane Sandy down here on
the ground have been helped by views like

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these from up there in space.

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Here’s the storm as it’s appeared to the
Expedition 33 crew aboard the ISS.

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And data collected by GOES satellites allow
animators at the Goddard Space Flight Center

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to create movies like this/these of how the
storm tracked through the Caribbean and up

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the East Coast of the U.S. These space-based
assets help forecasters and emergency personnel

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assess a storm’s strength and prepare for
any eventuality

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The aftermath of a rare, massive storm on
Saturn has caught the infrared eye of NASA's

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Cassini spacecraft.

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Data captured during the storm from January
2011 to March 2012 reveal record-setting disturbances

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in the planet's upper atmosphere long after
the visible signs of the storm abated, indicating

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that the storm was more forceful than previously
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Cassini's composite infrared spectrometer,
the CIRS, revealed the storm's powerful discharge

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sent the temperature in Saturn's stratosphere
soaring 150 degrees Fahrenheit above normal.

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NASA's newest set of X-ray eyes in the sky,
the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array

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(NuSTAR), has caught its first look at the
giant black hole parked at the center of our

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galaxy.

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The observations show the usually-quiet Sagittarius
A star in the middle of a flare-up.

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That happens when a black hole gobbles up
stars and other fuel around them.

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Sagittarius A is thought only to nibble or
not eat at all, a process that is not fully

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understood.

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Launched June 13, NuSTAR is the only telescope
capable of producing focused images of the

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highest-energy X-rays.

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Among other telescopes contributing to these
observations was NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory,

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and the W.M.

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Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

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Hi, I'm Nina Lanza, I’m a post-doc on the
ChemCam instrument and this is your Curiosity

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rover update.

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This has been a very exciting week for the
Curiosity rover.

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It delivered its 3rd sample to the CHIMRA
to complete its cleaning regimen and also

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we’ve done our first CheMin analysis and
we’ve got a second one on the way.

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In its spare time, Curiosity has also been
making measurements with other instruments,

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including the ChemCam instrument, which is
what I work on.

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ChemCam is actually two instruments in one.

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It includes a camera with a telephoto lens
and it also has a laser that vaporizes a very

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small amount of rock so we can tell what its
chemical composition is.

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And as of this week, we will have done 10,000
shots with the ChemCam laser.

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This week we’ve been analyzing rocks in
an area called Rocknest, and I’ll tell you

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in particular about one called Zephyr.

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This one is interesting because it appears
to be made of 2 different types of materials.

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It’s got this harder, more resistant material
on the top, capping it, and then beneath it

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has a lighter colored softer material that
appears to erode more easily.

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It’s actually eroded into a set of natural
arches, so some of our team members have taken

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to calling it, “Stonehenge.”

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This feature is really only an inch long and
we’re shooting this from about 8 feet away,

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making the pointing very difficult.

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So that’s why we decided to do 9 points
instead of just 2, just to make sure we would

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hit the material of interest.

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We ended up hitting both the dark and the
light material and we found that there was

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indeed a compositional difference.

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In addition to composition, we’ve also been
able to make a three-dimensional model of

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the surface of this target using images from
the Remote Micro-Imager part of ChemCam.

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We’ve also used ChemCam to measure soils,
such as crestaurum.

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Here you can see a before image, and then
after image where you can see the crater left

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by the laser.

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This week ChemCam did its very first depth
profile, in which we shot the laser 600 times

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in a single location, in order to tunnel through
the surface of the rock.

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Now, this only tunnels about one millimeter
in depth, but it can help us understand how

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the composition of the sample changes from
the surface to the interior.

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Coming up, we’ll be able to use this information
that we’ve learned from ChemCam in order

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to decide which targets we should hit next
with other instruments.

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This has been your Curiosity rover report.

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Please check back for more updates.

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Inspired by Curiosity was this 200-foot mural
dedicated at P.S. 328 in New York City.

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The “Red Road to Mars” was created by
artist Pansum Cheng and New York CITYarts

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staff, interns and volunteers based on the
ideas, drawings and poems of the elementary

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school students’ shared dreams of reaching
for the stars.

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“Our goal at NASA is more than just the
engineering and science.

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Our goal is to also to inspire people and
change lives.

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Your mural captures this time in history along
with your future dreams and possibilities.

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Keep dreaming, work hard and yes, education
is very important for you to get there.”

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Helping produce the “Red Road to Mars”
mural was the P.S. 328 after-school center,

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with support from NASA, Benjamin Moore Paints
and the Michael Tuch Foundation.

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The Michoud Assembly Facility played host
to SLS Industry Day to help suppliers and

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other businesses better acquaint themselves
with NASA's acquisition strategies.

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More than 90 companies and 40 government entities
explored partnership opportunities with the

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Space Launch System Program.

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Joining SLS Program manager, Todd May at the
event was Marshall Space Flight Center Director,

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Patrick Scheuermann.

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Scheuermann, who directed Michoud’s Hurricane
Katrina recovery while center director at

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Stennis, also was guest at a MAF all-hands
meeting.

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The final “roll” of Space shuttle Atlantis
from Kennedy Space Center’s Orbiter Processing

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Facility 2 to the Vehicle Assembly Building
is complete.

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Atlantis has been undergoing preparations
for public display.

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The orbiter is scheduled to move to its new
home at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex

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on November 2.

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A grand opening is planned for Atlantis at
the Visitor Complex next July.

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Solar System Exploration @ 50, a two-day symposium
about the past, present and future of solar

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system exploration was held at the Lockheed
Martin Global Vision Center outside Washington.

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The event commemorated the 50th anniversary
of the first successful planetary mission,

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Mariner 2’s voyage to Venus in 19-62, and
highlighted the subsequent half-century of

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achievements.

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“There are countries in this world that
dream about the stuff that NASA does.

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And it’s because we do some of these things
that are absolutely astounding because we

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need to make progress in the science questions
that we want to answer.”

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Solar System Exploration @ 50 was sponsored
by NASA’s History Program Office, Science

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Mission Directorate, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
and the Smithsonian National Air and Space

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Museum.

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Kennedy Space Center employees, their families
and the community across Florida's Space Coast

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got a taste of Hollywood Oct. 13.

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Turner Classic Movies presented the 1956 sci-fi
classic, "Forbidden Planet," at the Kennedy

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Space Center Visitor Complex.

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NASA astronaut Mike Massimino, along with
astronaut and Kennedy Space Center Director

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Bob Cabana, were joined by Turner Classic
Movies host Ben Mankiewicz.

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The event was part of the network's Road to
Hollywood tour, giving communities across

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the country the chance to enjoy timeless movies
in a film-festival atmosphere.

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“We picked "Forbidden Planet" because I
think it's one of the sci-fi movies from that

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sort of seminal age of sci-fi movies that
is taken seriously, that's not, you know...

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you don't laugh at "Forbidden Planet."

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It's kind of a highbrow movie.

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It's pretty sophisticated.

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And I think that our fascination with science
fiction, unquestionably, had a lot to do with

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the country's willingness to fund and grow
the space program in the seminal years of

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the space program in the 50s and 60s.”

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The nationwide tour leads up to the Classic
Film Festival in Hollywood in April 2013.

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Six years ago, on October 26, 2006, NASA released
the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory

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into the heavens to stereographically image
the sun and its emissions.

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The two identical spacecraft, Stereo A, and
Stereo-B, orbit our star, one ahead of the

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Earth, the other trailing.

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Together, they provide scientists with a better
view of how solar storms begin and evolve

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as they move from the sun into space.

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And a year ago on October 28, NPP, the National
Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite

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System Preparatory Project was launched from
Vandenburg Air Force Base in California.

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The NOAA weather satellite, since renamed
for meteorologist, Verner Suomi, is part of

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NASA's Earth Observing System, a series of
satellites providing new insight into our

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planet’s ecosystem.

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And that’s This Week @NASA.

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