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Leopard Spots on Martian Rocks

By |2024-07-31T09:09:08-04:00July 31st, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What is creating these unusual spots? Light-colored spots on Martian rocks, each surrounded by a dark border, were discovered earlier this month by NASA's Perseverance Rover currently exploring Mars. Dubbed leopard spots because of their seemingly similarity to markings on famous Earth-bound predators, these curious patterns are being studied with [...]

SWE Diverse Podcast Ep 271: Leadership Training for Engineers in Academia: SWE’s ALWE Program

By |2024-07-30T10:05:00-04:00July 30th, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

Two inspiring engineers share their experiences in SWE's Academic Leadership for Women in Engineering (ALWE) program on Diverse: a SWE podcast! Source

Arp 142: Interacting Galaxies from Webb

By |2024-07-30T09:09:25-04:00July 30th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day To some, it looks like a penguin. But to people who study the universe, it is an interesting example of two big galaxies interacting. Just a few hundred million years ago, the upper NGC 2936 was likely a normal spiral galaxy: spinning, creating stars, and minding its own business. Then [...]

Saturn at the Moon’s Edge

By |2024-07-27T09:09:06-04:00July 27th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Saturn now rises before midnight in planet Earth's sky. On July 24, the naked-eye planet was in close conjunction, close on the sky, to a waning gibbous Moon. But from some locations on planet Earth the ringed gas giant was occulted, disappearing behind the Moon for about an hour from [...]

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