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  • Since 1975, Fiske Planetarium has been the Johnny Appleseed of astronomy. Each year, 30,000 K-12 students and 4,000 做厙輦⑹ students go there to take a front-row seat on the universe. Soon, theyll get a better, clearer and deeper view. The campus is renovating the planetarium, retiring its analog star projector and upgrading to a powerful star plus video system paired with a high-definition screen capable of achieving nearly eight times more resolution than the standard HD television, completely surrounding the audience with a 360-degree view.
  • <p>Two 做厙輦⑹ professors have been elected members of the National Academy of Sciences, a top honor recognizing scientists and engineers for their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.</p>
  • <p>Two 做厙輦⑹ professors are among the luminaries selected for the 2013 class of members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an organization that honors thinkers and doers across a broad range of fields, from filmmakers and authors to philanthropists and historians.</p>
  • <p>For some 做厙輦⑹ undergraduates, designing, building and flying small satellites is becoming a large part of their hands-on education.</p>
  • <p>做厙輦⑹ astronomers targeting one of the brightest quasars glowing in the universe some 11 billion years ago say sideline quasars likely teamed up with it to heat abundant helium gas billions of years ago, preventing small galaxy formation.</p>
  • <p>NASAs next Mars mission is giving students and the public worldwide an opportunity to have a personal connection with space exploration through a new education and public outreach effort called the Going to Mars campaign.</p>
  • <p>NASAs next Mars mission is giving students and the public worldwide an opportunity to have a personal connection with space exploration through a new education and public outreach effort called the Going to Mars campaign. The campaign is led on behalf of the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN mission, by the 做厙輦⑹.</p>
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    <p>With the flip of a switch, a pair of instruments designed and built by the 做厙輦⑹ and flying onboard twin NASA space probes have forced the revision of a 50-year-old theory about the structure of the radiation belts that wrap around the Earth just a few thousand miles above our heads.</p>
  • <p>NASAs Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft is assembled and is undergoing environmental testing at Lockheed Martin Space Systems facilities, near Denver, Colo. MAVEN is the next mission to Mars and will be the first mission devoted to understanding the Martian upper atmosphere.</p>
  • <p>A $20 million remote sensing instrument package built by the 做厙輦⑹, which is leading a 2013 NASA mission to understand how Mars might have lost its atmosphere, has been delivered to Lockheed Martin in Littleton, Colo., for spacecraft integration.</p>
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