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05.14.13 – Optimized BLENDER Code Speeds Up Kepler Planet Analyses
Visualization experts in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division have improved the BLENDER software package used by the Kepler mission team to validate planet candidates, greatly shortening runtimes on the Pleiades supercomputer.
Artist's impression of planet Kepler-62f
04.28.13 – NASA's Kepler Seeks to Answer: Is Anybody Out There?
The question "Is anybody out there?" grows more tantalizing with the discovery of each new far-off planet. CBS News' Barry Petersen has been talking to scientists searching for clues.
Earth at night visualization
04.22.13 – NASA Celebrates Earth Day
NASA is celebrating Earth Day 2013. Our satellites, scientists, and data help us all better understand and sustain our home planet. Explore some of our Earth-inspired features, images, and videos.
map depicting change in northern vegetation growth over time
3.10.13 - Greenhouse Effect Shifts North's Growing Seasons
Vegetation growth at Earth's northern latitudes increasingly resembles lusher latitudes to the south, according to a NASA-funded study of satellite and model data.
Visualization of Kepler planet candidates
03.07.13 - NASA Supercomputer Helps 'Dig Out' Astronomical Treasures in Kepler Data
Behind the scenes, NASA's most powerful supercomputer, Pleiades, crunches the Kepler mission data that enables scientists to quickly unearth transit signals and confirm the discovery of new planet candidates.
Visualization of smoke and other aerosols on globe
03.07.13 – Planet on Fire
Combining observations from the MODIS instruments onboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites with the GEOS-5/GOCART atmosphere model reveals fire's global reach.
Visualization of aerosols over world map
2.27.13 – Simulating the Transport of Aerosols with GEOS-5
High-resolution GEOS-5 model simulations of tropospheric aerosols being transported around the globe have run at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation.
3D snapshot for an evolved black hole model
2.13.13 - Journey to the Limits of Spacetime
Black hole simulations on XSEDE and NASA supercomputers present new view of jets and accretion disks.
Visualization of polar vortex
1.30.13 - GEOS-5 Successfully Predicts Stratospheric Sudden Warming Event
Near-real-time meteorological analyses and weather forecasts with NASA's GEOS-5 model successfully predicted the major stratospheric sudden warming event of January 2013.
Photo of IRIS spacecraft in clean room
01.25.13 – NASA's IRIS Spacecraft Scheduled to Launch in April
NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission will use the Pleiades supercomputer to create and analyze 3D models of the sun based on data gathered by the orbiting observatory.
Surface temperature speeds from a 1/16-degree solution simulation
1.22.13 – Re-creating Earth's Oceans Inside a Supercomputer
Using complex computer models and the Pleiades supercomputer, scientists are taking a closer look at Earth's oceans and sea-ice to understand more about how they work and why they are changing.

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