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Space

• NASA Briefing Highlights Expedition 36-37 Space Station Crew
  NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston will host a crew news conference at 1 p.m. CDT (2 p.m. EDT) Tuesday, March 19, to preview the May launch of an American, an Italian and a Russian to the International Space Station. […]

NASA Image of the Day

• Staring at the Sun with SAGE III
  NASA engineer Chip Holloway waits for the sun to align with the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE III) during a clean room "sun-look" test on March 4, 2013, at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. SAGE III passed this test, successfully locking onto the sun and completing a series of measurements. Scientists are checking […]

NASA Earth Observatory Natural Hazards

• Dust Storm in China and Mongolia
  Acquired March 8, 2013, this image shows a dust storm along the China-Mongolia border. […]

Science

• How to Thrive in Battery Acid and Among Toxic Metals
  In the movie Alien, the title character is an extraterrestrial creature that can survive brutal heat and resist the effects of toxins. In real life, organisms with similar traits exist, such as the "extremophile" red alga Galdieria sulphuraria. In hot springs in Yellowstone National Park, Galdieria uses energy from the sun to produce sugars through […]

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