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Upcoming Lecture: Mars Update
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What have scientists learned so far about Mars? Does life exist there? Will human beings someday colonize the Red Planet? NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
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New Webcast: Galileo- 400 Years of the Telescope
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The Webcast for our lecture Galileo: 400 Years of the Telescope is now available to view from our Website: |
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Upcoming Lecture and rare book viewing: NASA scientist will discuss "Galileo: 400 Years of the Telescope" and special viewing of Galileo's 1610 "Sidereus Nuncius"
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On Wednesday, Feb. 17, NASA scientist Michelle Thaller will discuss "Galileo: 400 Years of the Telescope." Thaller, who is assistant director of Science for Communications at Goddard, will discuss the story of Galileo's discoveries with the telescope and the implications of those findings for him and for science thereafter. |
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New Web cast: On Thin Ice--Changing Ice Cover on Polar Oceans
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NASA scientist Thorsten Markus shares his expertise on polar ice in a lecture at the Library of Congress. |
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Updated Science Reference Guide: Winter Gardening
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A guide of selected titles, journal articles, Internet resources, and online sources for seed and plant catalog information related to winter gardening. |
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New Web cast: Hubble - A New Beginning
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Dave Leckrone, just-retired senior project scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope Program speaks about Hubble's final mission. |
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Blogging from Inside Adams: Science, Technology, and Business
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The Science, Technology, and Business Division of the Library of Congress has launched a new blog, Inside Adams. Inside Adams will point readers to the Library's large and diverse collections of books, journals, prints, photographs, digital collections, finding aids, and Webcasts related to science, technology, and business. This blog will give us the opportunity to highlight the bibliographies, research guides, and special pages that have been developed by staff, as well as share the history, art, and architecture of the John Adams Building. We hope you will join and participate along with us. |
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New Web cast: Peering into the Storm-NASA's Exploration of Hurricanes
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Dr. Braun, a research meteorologist with Goddard Space Flight Center, provides an overview of questions that motivate NASA's research on hurricanes and describes how NASA addresses these questions with the use of satellites, aircraft field campaigns, computer modeling, and other instrumentation that are used to interpret hurricanes. |
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Upcoming Lecture: On Thin Ice-The Changing Ice Cover on Polar Oceans,
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NASA scientist Thorsten Markus has closely observed the changes in the polar sea-ice cover, sometimes doing field work directly on the ice or from a NASA airplane and other times via satellite remote sensing. He will be sharing his expertise on polar ice in a lecture at the Library of Congress on Nov. 17 at 11:30 a.m. in the Mary Pickford Theater on the third floor of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C. |
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