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A Blue Banded Blood Moon

By |2025-03-25T09:09:06-04:00March 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What causes a blue band to cross the Moon during a lunar eclipse? The blue band is real but usually quite hard to see. The featured HDR image of last week's lunar eclipse, however -- taken from Norman, Oklahoma (USA) -- has been digitally processed to exaggerate the colors. The [...]

Sols 4488-4490: Progress Through the Ankle-Breaking Terrain (West of Texoli Butte, Climbing Southward)

By |2025-03-24T18:57:00-04:00March 24th, 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 3 min [...]

Engineering Reality: Lee Bingham Leads Lunar Surface Simulation Support for Artemis Campaign

By |2025-03-24T16:37:00-04:00March 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

If you design a new tool for use on Earth, it is easy to test and practice using that tool in its intended environment. But what if that tool is destined for lunar orbit or will be used by astronauts on the surface of the Moon? NASA’s Simulation and Graphics Branch can help with that. [...]

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Detects Largest Organic Molecules Found on Mars

By |2025-03-24T15:10:00-04:00March 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Researchers analyzing pulverized rock onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover have found the largest organic compounds on the Red Planet to date. The finding, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests prebiotic chemistry may have advanced further on Mars than previously observed. Scientists probed an existing rock sample inside Curiosity’s Sample Analysis [...]

NASA’s Artemis II Core Stage Integration Complete at Kennedy

By |2025-03-24T14:16:00-04:00March 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

Artemis II Core Stage is lifted into High Bay 3 inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center on Sunday, March 23, 2025.NASA/Frank Michaux Another element of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for Artemis II is poised for flight. Technicians joined the core stage March 23 with the stacked solid rocket boosters [...]

Like Sands Through the Hourglass…

By |2025-03-24T14:09:00-04:00March 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Two actively forming stars are responsible for the shimmering hourglass-shaped ejections of gas and dust that gleam in orange, blue, and purple in this representative color image captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. This star system, called Lynds 483, is named for American astronomer Beverly T. Lynds, who published extensive [...]

Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) Services

By |2025-03-24T13:49:00-04:00March 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Overview Welcome to the Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) services page. Provided here are different resources to support informed steps toward a new career opportunity in the public or private sector. Transition Assistance NASA is partnering with OPM to offer a 1-day workshop covering [...]

NASA Invites Media to SpaceX’s 32nd Resupply Launch to Space Station

By |2025-03-24T13:34:00-04:00March 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon spacecraft lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 4, 2024, on the company’s 31st commercial resupply services mission for the agency to the International Space Station.Credit: SpaceX Media accreditation is open for the next launch to deliver NASA science [...]

NASA Takes to the Air to Study Wildflowers

By |2025-03-24T12:51:00-04:00March 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Researcher Ann Raiho measures sunlight interacting with yellow Coreopsis gigantea flowers during field work in the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve in California’s Santa Barbara County in 2022.NASA/Yoseline Angel For many plant species, flowering is biologically synced with the seasons. Scientists are clocking blooms [...]

Expedition 72 Astronauts Relax as Cosmonauts Keep Up Research, Maintenance

By |2025-03-24T12:42:00-04:00March 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi unpacks cargo stowed inside a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft that had docked to the orbital outpost the day before wth him and fellow Crew-9 members Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers of NASA, and Kirill Peskov of Roscosmos aboard.NASA Four Expedition 72 astronauts took a well-deserved break on Monday [...]

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