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Heather Cowardin Safeguards the Future of Space Exploration  

By |2025-06-23T06:00:00-04:00June 23rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 Min Read Heather Cowardin Safeguards the Future of Space Exploration   As branch chief of the Hypervelocity Impact and Orbital Debris Office at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Dr. Heather Cowardin leads a team tasked with a critical mission: characterizing and mitigating orbital debris—space junk that poses a growing risk to satellites, spacecraft, [...]

A Berry Bowl of Martian Spherules

By |2025-06-22T12:44:30-04:00June 22nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day How were these unusual Martian spherules created? Thousands of unusual gray spherules made of iron and rock and dubbed blueberries were found embedded in and surrounding rocks near the landing site of the robot Opportunity rover on Mars in 2004. To help investigate their origin, Opportunity found a surface dubbed [...]

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4577-4579: Watch the Skies

By |2025-06-20T22:29:00-04:00June 20th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Mars Home 4 min [...]

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4575-4576: Perfect Parking Spot

By |2025-06-20T18:25:00-04:00June 20th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Mars Home 2 min [...]

NASA Tech to Use Moonlight to Enhance Measurements from Space

By |2025-06-20T17:37:00-04:00June 20th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 Min Read NASA Tech to Use Moonlight to Enhance Measurements from Space NASA's Arcstone instrument will be the first mission exclusively dedicated to measuring moonlight, or lunar reflectance, from space as a way to calibrate and improve science data collected by Earth-viewing, in-orbit instruments.  Credits: Blue Canyon Technologies NASA will soon launch a [...]

Expedition 73 Wraps Week with Relaxation, Light Science, and Emergency Drill

By |2025-06-20T14:18:00-04:00June 20th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

City lights dot the northeastern landscape of China with a wispy aurora above Earth’s horizon in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 262 miles above Asia. In the bottom foreground, is the Kibo laboratory module’s Exposed Facility, an external research platform, and the orbital outpost’s main solar arrays.NASA Friday was mostly [...]

NASA’s LRO Views ispace HAKUTO-R Mission 2 Moon Lander Impact Site

By |2025-06-20T13:10:00-04:00June 20th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

On June 11, NASA’s LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) captured photos of the site where the ispace Mission 2 SMBC x HAKUTO-R Venture Moon (RESILIENCE) lunar lander experienced a hard landing on June 5, 2025, UTC. RESILIENCE lunar lander impact site, as seen by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) on June 11, 2025. The lander [...]

NASA Air Taxi Passenger Comfort Studies Move Forward

By |2025-06-20T12:22:00-04:00June 20th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA employee Naomi Torres sits inside the air taxi passenger ride quality simulator at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, as the simulator moves during a study on Oct. 23, 2024. Research continues to better understand how humans may interact with these [...]

Summer Begins in Northern Hemisphere

By |2025-06-20T12:17:00-04:00June 20th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

This full-disk image from NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite shows the Americas at the start of astronomical summer in the Northern Hemisphere on June 21, 2012.NASA This full-disk image from NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite was captured at 7:45 a.m. EDT (11:45 UTC) and shows the Americas on June 21, 2012, the start of astronomical summer – in the [...]

NASA History News and Notes – Summer 2025

By |2025-06-20T10:17:00-04:00June 20th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

7 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) In the summer 2025 issue of the NASA History Office’s News & Notes newsletter, examples of leadership and critical decision-making in NASA’s history form the unifying theme. Among the topics discussed are NASA’s Shuttle-Centaur program, assessing donations to the NASA Archives, how the discovery [...]

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