The "Mona Lisa" experiment was transmitted at a slow data rate of about 300 bits per second, but the "pathfinding achievement sets the stage for ... high data rate laser-communication demonstrations that will be a central feature of NASA's next moon mission, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, " said Goddard's Richard Vondrak, the orbiter's deputy project scientist.
Indeed, Goddard's decision to buy Eyetech may be based partly on his experience with Tarceva--which was a rollercoaster ride.
Michael Comberiate, a retired NASA engineer and manager of Goddard's Engineering Boot Camp said the Earth-bound Greenland Rover is similar to NASA missions off the planet.
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She studied music, but found Goddard's music department somewhat lacking.
Why, on the grounds of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center of course.
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Engineers at Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center successfully communicated with it by logging onto its website.
The tapes are believed to be stored somewhere in the archive at Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland.
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For RRM, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center designed a module simulating a satellite, as well as custom power tools for Dextre.
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"There's no physical difference in the moon, " said Noah Petro, scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
The next step is for Miri to be put in a special environment-controlled shipping box, so it can travel to the US space agency's Goddard centre.
The work was reported in mid-October by Jay Norris, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, at the Fifth Huntsville (Alabama) Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium.
Scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
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The enigmatic "Mona Lisa" countenance was digitized and traveled via laser almost 240, 000 miles from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Dr James Hansen, from Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, acknowledged that even in a period of global warming some seasons will be cooler than the long term average.
"This is probably the only definitely habitable environment that we've described and recorded, " said Paul Mahaffy, principal investigator for Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars investigation at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
"Any worldly event that involves the movement of mass affects the Earth's rotation, " Benjamin Fong Chao, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said while explaining the phenomenon in 2005.
Indeed, when James Hansen, of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Science, proclaimed in 1987 that "the warming has begun, " his colleagues, including many who took the threat seriously, declared his statement premature.
"We often think of black holes pulling in matter, but actually what we observe with our current instrumentation is matter flying out, " said Timothy Kallman of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, in a statement.
NASA's Goddard Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
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However, after three years of observations of low stratus, cumulus and stratocumulus clouds over land, Anthony Del Genio of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies discovered that when air temperatures were higher, clouds were thinner and thus less capable of reflecting sunlight.
Rafael Eufrasio of the Catholic University of America and Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center and colleagues from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil and the European Southern Observatory in Chile were interested in a number of regions away from the galaxy.
Goddard winks at horror's soiled conventions, but doesn't denigrate his characters by resorting to camp (well, except perhaps in the scary fundamentalist redneck the kids encounter when they try to buy gas).
"It's coming to us from near the edge of the visible Universe, " explained the researcher from the US space agency's (Nasa) Goddard Space Flight Center.
CNN's Mary Snow, Mark Preston and Lisa Goddard contributed to this report.
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"It's obviously something we thought about, " says Goddard, who thinks the relationship will remain unharmed.
Goddard emphasizes that investors shouldn't look at today's acquisition as having anything to do with Tarceva's development.
That allowed Goddard to pick up Cell Pathways for only 7% of OSI's market cap, without outlaying any cash.
Yet, according to the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, a part of NASA, America's space agency, 2008 was the ninth-hottest year on record. 2009 is shaping up to be the sixth-hottest.
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