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That's why their work is supported by the European space agency. Preparing food in space presents unique challenges.

Nasa recently admitted that as part of a programme"to turn science fiction into fact  they are funding work to develop a 3d food printer.

His talks on futurist topics have captivated people ranging from high level of government officials to executives in Fortune 500 companies including NASA, IBM, AT&T, Hewlett-packard

Then the Canadian rebel turned his attention to the far more important temperature curves of the recent past, those of Phil Jones and of his comrade-in-arms at NASA, James Hansen.

Now a new study led by Nadine Unger of NASAS Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New york city offers a more intuitive way to understand whats changing the Earths climate.

The dehydrated crustaceans, coated in a spicy sauce, are requested the most food item in NASAS space pantry.

#in NASA parlance, but you and I would call them M&ms. Itd be a tough call

One of the more dramatic applications of plant-growing chambers under LED lights was by NASA

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#Is Eating Insects the Answer to Reducing our Food Footprint? Flickr user avlxyz tries an insect at Chiang Mai bazaar Hungry for a grasshopper taco?

#Is NASA tracking the Cosmic Shift? Cosmic changes are coming. When it comes to terraforming,

#explains lead author Merav Opher, a NASA Heliophysics Guest Investigator from George Mason University. This magnetic field holds the interstellar cloud together

IBEX program scientist at NASA Headquarters. Interstellar space just beyond the edge of the solar system is unexplored mostly territory.

discovered last year by a NASA Small Explorer satellite IBEX, could be explained by a geometric effect coming up because of approach of the Sun to the boundary between the Local Cloud of interstellar gas

NASA may be controlled a heavily and mostly covert agency, but they ve gotta produce enough public results to justify their funding and existence.

#NASA issues call for new space taxis to fly to International Space station NASA hopes to be able to fly its astronauts on commercial carriers by about 2017.

Program managers from NASA said they are looking for at least two U s. firms to design

NASA plans to invest $300 million to $500 million in each of the firms selected under new 21-month partnership agreements, Ed Mango,

manager of NASA s Commercial Crew program, said at an industry briefing at the Kennedy space center prior to the release of a solicitation on Tuesday.

The new program aims to build upon previous NASA investments in companies designing commercial passenger spaceships.

Russia charges NASA about $60 million per person for rides to the station, which flies about 240 miles above Earth

Since 2010, NASA has invested a total of $365. 5 million in private companies, including $130. 9 million in Boeing, $125. 6 million in Sierra nevada Corp and $75 million in Space Exploration Technologies,

Spacex, already selected by NASA to fly cargo to the station, plans to upgrade its Dragon freighter

NASA has $406 million to spend on commercial crew programs for the year that began October 1.

Because of future funding uncertainties, NASA is asking its potential partners to propose how they would proceed with flat funding of $400 million a year after 2014,

NASA hopes to be able to fly its astronauts on commercial carriers by about 2017. Photo credit:

It s the original home of Ball aerospace (one of the first NASA contractors herbal tea pioneer Celestial Seasonings, Storagetek (later acquired by Sun microsystems for $4. 1 billion),

#NASA plans to grow vegetables in space NASA is organizing the Vegetable Production System (VEGGIE) program that will send packs of seed material to the ISS.

but NASA is now researching how vegetables may be grown in space for consumption. NASA is organizing the Vegetable Production System (VEGGIE) program that will send packs of a pellet-like seed material wrapped in Kevlar to the ISS.

When planted under LED lights this material will turn into lettuce. Once grown, the lettuce will be sent back to Earth for analysis to determine

NASA chose lettuce for the experiment because it s generally ready to eat straight out of the soil.

but NASA hopes to eventually grow other vegetables like radishes, peas, and tomatoes. Growing plants in space also has other

but NASA hopes that this research could give new insight into how crops behave in space.

A 1973 NASA document summarizing the biological effects of vacuums on mammals gives you 10 seconds of consciousness

NASA. 30.)) The Great wall of china isn t the only man-made structure visible from space. Depending on your definition of space,

NASA. 31.)) There is no such thing as someone having a#oephotographic#memory#only very good memories.

I can only assume today s technology is hundreds of times more precise than anything we were working with back then. 2007 NASA image of forest fires in California The above photo was infrared taken with thermal imaging sensors on NASA s Ikhana unmanned research

#Nasa tests growing lettuce in space A plant growth chamber designed to make gardens thrive in weightlessness.

NASA scientists believe they may have found a solution to how to grow vegetables in space.

#How NASA scientists plan to farm on Mars Scientist Angelo Vermeulen on a Mars mock-up in Hawaii.

NASA has big plans for Mars in the coming decades, including intentions to blast a fifth rover onto the planet s surface by 2020

NASA-funded team that spent four months last year on the hills of the Mauna loa volcano in Hawaii to study

soil provided by NASA and compared those crops to a control group that used soil from the nearby banks of the Rhine river.

which protects free speech. 4. Lonely birthdays The government shutdown coincided withâ Yosemite national park s 123rd and NASA's 55th birthday.

A space rock threatens Earth when NASA out? The Asteroid Watch program based at NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena Calif. has ceased activity along with other federally funded agencies.

Fortunately however the Minor planet Centerâ in Cambridge Mass. and the European space agency are still on the watch in case a space rock nears planet Earth. 15.

Most searched terms by Americans over the last seven days While there was an explosive increase in Google searches for government shutdown

Fortunately however the<a href=http://www. space. com/23035-government-shutdown-dangerous-asteroids-search. html>Minor planet Center</a>in Cambridge Mass. and the European space agency are still on the watch in case a space rock nears planet Earth.</

Even NASA is considering quinoa for long-duration planetary space flights perhaps as an apology for its Tang years.

In 2011 NASA's Operation Icebridge discovered a giant crack crossing the ice shelf. The Icebridge expedition tracks yearly changes in the Antarctic ice.

Besides the lengthening of nights and cool evening weather which are great for stargazers autumn truly is aurora season according to NASA.

and the Harvest moon emerged according to NASA. 4. Why fall leaves may fade Climate change may dull the picture most synonymous with autumn fall leaves.

(which are invisible to the human eye) according to the Earth Observatory of the National aeronautics and space administration (NASA).

And since the Industrial revolution the burning of fossil fuels like coal oil and gasoline have increased greatly the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere according to NASA's Earth Observatory.

CO2 methane nitrous oxide water vapor and ozone are among the most prevalent according to NASA. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCS) were used once commonly as refrigerants

A drop in solar activity for example is believed to have caused the Little Ice age a period of unusually colder climate that lasted from about 1650 to 1850 according to NASA.

At the time Hansen was still the director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New york. He retired from that position in April in part to pursue political and legal efforts on combating climate change.

#Coolest Science Stories of the Week<p></p><p>NASA's next mission to...home?

></p><p>NASA's newest rover won't be exploring another planet but will take a look at part of our own.

It was developed from 2010-2011 by teams of students in summer engineering boot camps at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland according to a release from NASA.</

<a href=http://www. livescience. com/29259-nasa-rover-explores-greenland. html target=blank>NASA Rover to Explore...

Primitive life could have lived on ancient Mars NASA says.</</p><p>A sample of Mars drilled from a rock by NASA's Curiosity rover and then studied by onboard instruments shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes NASA officials announced today (March 12) in a statement and press conference.</

</p><p>Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/27841-ancient-mars-microbes-curiosity-rover. html target=blank>Wow!

Ancient Mars Could Have supported Primitive Life NASA Says</a p><p></p><p>A newfound particle discovered at the world's largest atom smasher last year is indeed a Higgs boson the particle thought to explain how other

Ancient Mars Could Have supported Primitive Life NASA Says</a p><p></p><p>A newly deciphered Egyptian text dating back almost 1200 years tells part of the crucifixion story of Jesus with apocryphal

The newborn iceberg measures about 278 square miles (720 square kilometers) and was seen by Terrasar-X an earth-observing satellite operated by the German Space agency (DLR.

Scientists with NASA's Operation Icebridgefirst discovered a giant crack in the Pine Island Glacier in October 2011 as they were flying over

NASA comes under particular scrutiny in the 2013 Wastebook. The space agency has a budget of about $17 billion a year and represented 0. 48 percent of the federal budget in 2012.

In the 1960s when the space race was at its peak NASA funding represented as much as 4. 4 percent of federal spending.

One project criticized by Coburn is NASA's Countermeasure and Functional Testing Study a project the senator describes as paying people to lie in bed all day.

Well sort of. In fact the Countermeasure and Functional Testing study is part of NASA's long-term bed-rest research that seeks to mimic the antigravity environment of space On earth by positioning participants in bed head tilted slightly downward day in and day out.

This particular project is a 70-day study to test whether exercise can help stave off the loss of muscle

while lying in bed NASA researchers told the Houston Chronicle in September. After 70 days in bed patients need two weeks of rehab in order to walk safely again.

Another NASA project under fire is a $125000 grant for intergalactic planetary pizza tasting. The goal of this project is to develop shelf-stable palatable 3d printed foods for a mission to Mars

What Astronauts Eat Coburn criticizes both projects as well as several other NASA efforts for being focused on a mission to Mars arguing the agency is nowhere near launching such a journey.

But NASA has to take the long view said Michael Halpern the program manager of the Center for Science and Democracy at the science advocacy group Union of Concerned Scientists.

The 10 Most Visited National parks Coburn also criticizes NASA funding for a study on how climate change affects the migration of red crabs on Christmas Island in the Indian ocean.

Perhaps not but the crabs are a test case for how global warming will alter the migration of tropical species according to a Princeton university news release on the study nd Earth science is under the umbrella of NASA's mission.

But between 1999 and 2010 these forest fires burned more than 33000 square miles (85500 square kilometers) an area larger than the state of South carolina according to a NASA release.

or frequency of these understory fires Doug Morton a researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md. and the study's lead author said in the statement.

and then gradually disappear as the rain forest recovers the NASA statement said. NASA scientists are using an instrument on the Terra satellite to detect these signs of damage which include slight alterations in the amount and condition of foliage present.

These fires kill between 10 and 50 percent of the trees in the areas they burn

and are likely an important source of carbon emissions that hasn t been accounted adequately for in climate models according to NASA.

and other human sources NASA said. Â Emailâ Douglas Mainâ or follow him onâ Twitterâ orâ Google+.

Goldenfeld is leading a new NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) team that aims to provide a clearer understanding of this early stage of evolution.

This story was provided byâ Astrobiology Magazine a web-based publication sponsored by the NASA astrobiology program o

Even after rainfall levels bounced back in the next several years the forest continued to suffer according to a NASA-led group of scientists.

The study's leader Sassan Saatchi of NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory Pasadena Calif. said that more frequent droughts due to climate change could drag on rainforest ecosystems and the carbon cycle in the long run.

Forest fires alone destroyed more than 33000 square miles (85500 square km) of forest between 1999 and 2010 according to a recent NASA release.

#New Earth Explorer Satellite to Map Global Forests The European space agency hopes to launch a new Earth Explorer satellite in 2020 that will map the extent and composition of the world s forests.

The ESA hopes the resulting data and 3d forest maps will help researchers measure the total amount of carbon stored in forests

and global warming Hank Shugart an environmental scientist at the University of Virginia and member of the BIOMASS advisory committee to the ESA said in a statement.

and is the seventh in ESA's fleet of Earth Explorer satellites of which three are currently in orbit.

The tallest rocket ever constructed is NASA's massive Saturn V a three-stage booster used to launch American astronauts to the moon in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The system then combines the field data with a diversity of public data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric administration the National aeronautics and space administration and the U s. Geological Survey and private data from companies like Earth Networks.

#Radar Plane Scans South american Landscapes NASA's globetrotting remote-sensing plane wrapped up a month-long trip to Central

and soil moisture constrains a lot of ecosystem processes Yang Zheng UAVSAR operational processing lead told Ouramazingplanet during a UAVSAR demo at NASA's Dryden Flight Research center in January.

and understanding carbon processes said Zheng who is based at NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena Calif. The UAVSAR data is higher resolution with less interfering noise than most such data from satellites according to NASA.

#Radar Plane Scans Volcanoes, Archaeological Sites NASA's globetrotting remote-sensing plane wrapped up a month-long trip to Central

and soil moisture constrains a lot of ecosystem processes Yang Zheng UAVSAR operational processing lead told Ouramazingplanet during a UAVSAR demo at NASA's Dryden Flight Research center in January.

and understanding carbon processes said Zheng who is based at NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena Calif. The UAVSAR data is higher resolution with less interfering noise than most such data from satellites according to NASA.

 It was as it turns out bugs said Robert Kennedy a remote sensing specialist at Boston University who designed the computer program inâ a NASA statement.

but will if the insects return in following years NASA reported. Landtrendr is still in development

but has changed already the way the U s. Forest Service monitors ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest according to the NASA statement.

a longstanding cooperative agreement between UMD's Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center and the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center;

And NASA sees 3d printed food as a revolutionary way to make personalised meals for astronauts.

The researchers using NASA imagery and historical data found that every time there is a major flood terraces fail

That s the picture of ancient Mars that has emerged during the past few months thanks to discoveries by NASA's Curiosity rover

Curiosity's smaller older cousins NASA's Spirit and Opportunity rovers found plenty of evidence of ancient Martian water after touching down in 2004

NASA satellites that studied the parched land determined that the drought depleted the region's aquifers to low levels that had rarely been seen

Since the start of the Industrial revolution human activities have increased the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide by a third according to NASA.

The remaining 70 percent is absorbed by the oceans the land and the atmosphere according to NASA.

and methane levels have increased a whopping 148 percent according to NASA and most of that increase has been in the past 50 years.

Though the existence of global warming was considered once controversial it is acknowledged now as real by an overwhelming majority of researchers throughout the international scientific community according to the National aeronautics and space administration (NASA.

About 30 percent of the radiation striking Earth's atmosphere is reflected immediately back out to space by clouds ice snow sand and other reflective surfaces according to NASA.

It's this equilibrium of incoming and outgoing radiation that makes the Earth habitable with an average temperature of about 59 degrees Fahrenheit (15 degrees Celsius) according to NASA.

Since the dawn of the Industrial revolution in the early 1800s the burning of fossil fuels like coal oil and gasoline have increased greatly the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere especially CO2 according to NASA.

If global warming continues unchecked it will cause significant climate change a rise in sea levels increasing ocean acidification extreme weather events and other severe natural and societal impacts according to NASA the EPA

and if they're not altered by the courts they should be very effective in reducing CO2 emissions from the power sector said NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies researcher Drew Shindell.

This image of tule fog was taken Jan 17 2011 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA's Terra satellite according to NASA's Earth Observatory

when they discovered the Amazon forest turns green during the tropical dry season from June through October even during an extreme drought based on data from NASA's Terra satellite.

We think we have uncovered the mechanism for the appearance of seasonal greening of Amazon forests shadowing within the canopy that changes the amount of near-infrared light observed by MODIS lead study author Doug Morton of NASA's Goddard Space Flight

In the tropics in June the sun is low casting long shadows when the MODIS or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer sensors that fly aboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites snap images

NASA has been funding research into methods of storing food for long periods while keeping astronauts healthy.

In the near term before colonists can construct greenhouses they will have to use artificial light from LEDS for example to power their plants'photosynthesis. NASA has conducted plant-growth research in microgravity aboard the International Space station (ISS) and in the Long Duration Exposure

For this to become a viable possibility NASA engineers would have to solve some daunting technological materials-science and physics issues.

NASA has experimented also with using 3d printers for making chocolate and even pizza. The grasshoppers would make a better dessert if dipped in the 3d printed chocolate.

The worldwide adoption of the hazard analysis critical control points system HACCP originally developed by NASA to protect astronauts from food poisoning makes it less likely that the world food supply could lead to a major epidemic

We can t have prairie without fire Jason Hartman of the Kansas Forest Service told NASA's Earth Observatory which released the satellite image today (April 9).

This image snapped by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite was acquired March 31.

In October 1995 NASA and the University of Wisconsin created the technology to do so with the goal of feeding astronauts on long space voyages

The stunning shot comes courtesy of Jim Hansen of the Central Oregon Fire Management Service who snapped it from a 337 Skymaster airplane on June 7 according to NASA's Earth Observatory.

along with Hansen's photograph by NASA's Earth Observatory shows a view of the Two Bulls fire from space.

Taken by an instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite on June 8 this image shows smoke from the fire.

Satellite monitoring of methane emissions will get a much-needed boost next year with the planned launch in 2015 of the Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument aboard a Sentinel satellite operated by the European space agency.

David Bowman receives funding from ARC NASA TERN and NERP. This article was published originally on The Conversation.

In comparison global average temperatures have risen about 1. 4 degrees F (0. 8 degrees C) according to NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

#Mysterious Energy Ribbon at Solar system's Edge a'Cosmic Roadmap'A strange ribbon of energy and particles at the edge of the solar system first spotted by a NASA spacecraft appears to serve as a sort of roadmap in the sky for the interstellar

By comparing ground-based studies and in-space observations of solar system's mysterious energy ribbon which was discovered first by NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) in 2009 scientists are learning more details about the conditions

Photos and Images from NASA's IBEX Spacecraft What I always have been trying to do was to establish a clear connection between the very high-energy cosmic rays we're seeing from the ground

This is a region that only one mission NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached so far

This stands in contrast to findings from NASA and other science groups saying Voyager 1 is definitively in interstellar space.

Data from Swarm an ESA satellite array indicates Earth's magnetic field is weakening. Researchers believe these are the beginning signs of the flipping of the magnetic poles yet it is weakening faster than expected.

former NASA astronaut Mike LÃ pez-Alegrã a told Live Science last week ahead of the party.

retired NASA astronaut Franklin Chang DÃ az; and planetary scientist Maria Zuber. Physicist Stephen Hawking even addressed the crowd via telecast.

Longtime growers are even pulling in new talent with rã sumã s featuring university professorships and stints at NASA.

Denver Relief just hired a former NASA scientist Neil Yorio who worked on lighting technology for long-duration space missions to develop new options for marijuana growers.

I was hanging out at Spacex NASA JPL and Caltech talking to astrophysicists and engineers and just trying to get some ideas about our human perspective

and its residents according to Rosaly Lopes a volcanologist at NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena Calif. Lopes was not a consultant on the film.)

The new Global Forest Watch will update monthly at a medium resolution with data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra and Aqua satellites.

but every year the map updates with much finer-grained imagery from NASA's Landsat program.

Lead study author Fernando Espã rito-Santo a research scientist at NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena Calif. combined satellite data airborne lidar (laser surface imagery)

because it can contribute to high ozone levels near the ground said NASA's Earth Observatory.

when gasoline and coal are burned Bryan Duncan an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center told Earth Observatory.

when the sight of strange dark-green features running along Siberia's Kulunda Steppe left them stumped according to NASA's Earth Observatory.

Fortunately for the ISS astronauts'burning curiosity researchers at NASA Johnson Space center in Houston had answers.

The only thing holding it in is said the ice shelf Robert Thomas a glaciologist at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island Va. who was involved not in the study.

According to NASA the first living creature in space was named a rhesus monkey Albert I. His launch took place in White sands New mexico on June 11 1948.

NASA's Earth Observatory released a new high-resolution image of an Alaskan forest near the Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge that has been left off of most maps.

because it is so difficult to reach Doug Morton a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Maryland told the Earth Observatory.

and a group of NASA researchers are sweeping across the Alaskan landscape in a low-flying airplane equipped with a portable imaging system called G-Liht.

NASA's Landsat satellites which have been snapping pictures of the Earth's surface for more than 40 years now have instruments that can produce images with 49-to 98-foot (15 to 30 m) resolutions.

#NASA Video Captures Stunning Volcano Eruption View from Space On June 12 2009 the International Space station happened to be passing over the Sarychev Volcano

The plume was so immense that it cast a large shadow on the island according to NASA Earth Observatory.

and settled ash veiled nearly all of the vegetation on the island's northwestern end according to NASA Earth Observatory.

when NASA launches its Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 satellite in July. The Los alamos team clearly demonstrated the value of remote sensing for monitoring greenhouse gas emissions said David Crisp the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) science lead at NASA s Jet propulsion laboratory.

Crisp is unaffiliated with the Los alamos study.##oeto fully exploit this capability we need to acquire measurements like this at high spatial resolution over the entire globe#Crisp said.

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