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Signs of Alien Life Will Be Found by 2025, NASA’s Chief Scientist Predicts – Video

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Signs of Alien Life Will Be Found by 2025, NASA #39;s Chief Scientist Predicts
During a panel discussion on Tuesday, April 7 NASA chief scientist Ellen Stofan had some exciting news: "I think we #39;re going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade,...

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NASA to Host Human Exploration Rover Challenge

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The annual NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge will take place April 17-18 at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

NASA Television will provide coverage of both days races from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. EDT. NASA Marshall Space Flight Centers UStream channel will broadcast the races and the awards ceremony, which will take place at 5 p.m. CDT on April 18 in the Davidson Center for Space Exploration in Huntsville.

This years competition will feature more than 80 high school and college teams from 18 states, Puerto Rico and international teams from Germany, India, Mexico and Russia racing against the clock in this engineering design competition.

The Rover Challenge requires students to design, construct, test and race human-powered rovers through an obstacle course simulating the terrain potentially found on distant planets, asteroids or moons. Teams race to finish the three-quarter-mile-long obstacle course in the fastest time, vying for prizes in various divisions. The event concludes with a ceremony where corporate sponsors will present awards for best design, rookie team and other accomplishments.

Hosted by Marshall, the Rover Challenge highlights NASAs goals for deep-space exploration. The challenge is inspired by the Lunar Roving Vehicles of the Apollo moon missions. The competition challenges students to solve engineering problems, while highlighting NASA's commitment to inspiring new generations of scientists, engineers and explorers.

Media interested in attending should contact Angela Storey of the Marshall Public and Employee Communications Office at 256-544-0034 no later than 4 p.m., April 15. Visitor parking is available in front of the Davidson Center.

To view the 2015 list of teams, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/roverchallenge/teams/index.html

For more event details, race rules, information on the course, contributors and photos from previous competitions, as well as links to social media accounts providing real-time updates, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/roverchallenge

For live coverage of the races, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv

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NASA Joins Forces To Fight Threat To U.S. Freshwater

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NASA has joined forces with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and U.S. Geological Survey to transform satellite data designed to probe ocean biology into information that will help protect the American public from harmful freshwater algal blooms.

Algal blooms are a worldwide environmental problem causing human and animal health risks, fish kills, and taste and odor in drinking water. In the United States, the cost of freshwater degraded by harmful algal blooms is estimated at $64 million annually. In August 2014, officials in Toledo, Ohio, banned the use of drinking water supplied to more than 400,000 residents after it was contaminated by an algal bloom in Lake Erie.

The new $3.6 million, multi-agency effort will use ocean color satellite data to develop an early warning indicator for toxic and nuisance algal blooms in freshwater systems and an information distribution system to aid expedient public health advisories.

Ocean color satellite data from NASA's Aqua, the USGS-NASA Landsat, and the European Space Agency's Sentinel-2 and -3 are currently available to scientists, but are not routinely processed and produced in formats that help state and local environmental and water quality managers. Through this project, satellite data on harmful algal blooms developed by the partner agencies will be converted to a format that stakeholders can use through mobile devices and web portals.

"Observations from space-based instruments are an ideal way to tackle this type of public health hazard because of their global coverage and ability to provide detailed information on material in the water, including algal blooms," said Paula Bontempi of the Earth Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

NOAA and NASA pioneered the use of satellite data to monitor and forecast harmful algal blooms. Satellites allow for more frequent observations over broader areas than water sampling. The satellite data support NOAA's existing forecasting systems in the Gulf of Mexico and Great Lakes.

The new network builds on previous NASA ocean satellite sensor technologies created to study the global ocean's microscopic algal communities, which play a major role in ocean ecology, the movement of carbon dioxide between the atmosphere and ocean, and climate change. These sensors detect the color of the sunlit upper layer of the ocean and are used to create indicators that can help identify harmful algal blooms.

Researchers will compare the new freshwater algal blooms data with satellite records of land cover changes over time to identify specific land-use activities that may have caused environmental changes linked to the frequency and intensity of blooms. The results will help to develop better forecasts of bloom events.

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Nasa release stunning GoPro footage taken by astronauts on walk of International Space Station

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Barry Wilmore and Terry Virts captured the footage on spacewalks The astronauts were carrying out repair work on the space station Video captures incredibly clear images of the earth from250 miles Spacewalks were in preparation for commercial spacecraft arrival

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Published: 10:20 EST, 13 April 2015 | Updated: 10:27 EST, 13 April 2015

Nasa has released incredible point-of-view footage taken by astronauts on spacewalks of the International Space Station.

Expedition 42 commander Barry Wilmore and flight engineer Terry Virts recorded three spacewalks, known as Extra Vehicular Activities, on GoPro cameras outside the ISS on February 25 and March 1.

The spacewalks were in preparation for the arrival of multibillion pound commercial spacecraft, which Nasa hope will be in operation by 2017.

Out of this world! NASA astronauts take spacewalk with a Go Pro

Expedition 42 commander Barry Wilmore and flight engineer Terry Virts recorded three spacewalks on GroPro cameras

Nasa recently signed a contract with commercial spaceflight companies SpaceX and Boeing with the intention to produce craft capable of transporting astronauts to the ISS.

The clip was recorded to give the future ISS workers an idea of what they can expect when they go into space to maintain the commercial spacecraft.

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NASA plans Va. launch of rocket carrying student experiments

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Posted: Monday, April 13, 2015 10:58 am | Updated: 11:15 am, Mon Apr 13, 2015.

NASA plans Va. launch of rocket carrying student experiments Associated Press |

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. (AP) NASA has scheduled a weekend launch of a rocket from its Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia.

NASA says the Terrier-Improved Malemute suborbital sounding rocket will carry experiments developed by undergraduate students at Virginia Tech, the University of Colorado, Northwest Nazarene University, the University of Puerto Rico and the University of Nebraska.

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NASA Secret Artifacts Hidden In Thumbnail’ Image’s SOL 950 – Mars Anomaly Research – Video

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NASA says, it will discover extraterrestrial life by 2045

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Washington, April 12 (IANS/EFE): NASA scientists are now convinced that extraterrestrial life is a fact, not a mere possibility, and says man will find conclusive signs of life far from Earth by the year 2045.

For scientists, the big question about alien life is no longer if it will be found but when.

"I think we're going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade, and I think we're going to have definitive evidence within 20 to 30 years," NASA chief scientist Ellen Stofan said this week during a forum on habitable places in space.

"We know where to look. We know how to look. In most cases we have the technology, and we're on a path to implementing it. And so I think we're definitely on the road," said an optimistic Stofan.

She cautioned, however, that "we are not talking about little green men...we are talking about little microbes."

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