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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4668-4674: Winding Our Way Along

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 [...]

By |2025-09-29T20:13:00-04:00September 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Crew Begins Week Configuring Advanced Physics, Space Tech Demo Hardware

Pictured inside the Cygnus XL cargo craft are (clockwise from left) astronauts Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke, Jonny Kim, and Kimiya Yui. Highlighted at center, is a poster of William “Willie” McCool, in honor of the NASA astronaut who perished in 2003 during the space shuttle Columbia accident and for whom the Cygnus spacecraft is named.NASA [...]

By |2025-09-29T14:42:00-04:00September 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

New File Download Process for PSI Large Requests

2 min read New File Download Process for PSI Large Requests A recent update to the PSI database improves how large dataset downloads are handled, resulting in more efficient processing for users. Download requests larger than 1GB are now delivered via email, rather than downloading directly from the website. This allows the system to [...]

By |2025-09-29T14:22:00-04:00September 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Joe A. Adam Presents Ring Sheared Drop (RSD) Research at 2025 ISSRDC

3 min read Joe A. Adam Presents Ring Sheared Drop (RSD) Research at 2025 ISSRDC The Ring-Sheared Drop (RSD) experiment, conducted in the Microgravity Glovebox on ISS, helps scientists learn more about Alzheimer’s & Dementia in hopes of a future cure to similar neurological diseases. NASA At the virtual 2025 ISS Research and Development [...]

By |2025-09-29T14:09:00-04:00September 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Two Camera Comets in One Sky

Photo of the Day It may look like these comets are racing, but they are not. Comets C/2025 K1 ATLAS (left) and C/2025 R2 SWAN (right) appeared near each other by chance last week in the featured image taken from France's Reunion Island in the southern Indian Ocean. Fainter Comet ATLAS is approaching our [...]

By |2025-09-29T13:44:24-04:00September 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Astronaut Candidates Get to Work at Johnson Space Center

NASA announced its newest class of astronaut candidates on Sept. 22, 2025, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. After the welcome ceremony, the 10 highly qualified individuals rolled up their sleeves and prepared for the next step in their journey to the stars: nearly two years of training to become flight-eligible for missions [...]

By |2025-09-29T11:08:00-04:00September 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Safety, Respect, and Inclusion: Our Stance Against Harassment at the WE25 Annual Conference & Career Fair

The SWE Annual Conference & Career Fair is a place where women, nonbinary individuals, and men as allies of all backgrounds can support the overall persistence and success for the engineering and technology profession of those underrepresented in the field. Those who think otherwise should reconsider attending. Source

By |2025-09-29T10:28:00-04:00September 29th, 2025|Categories: Uncategorized|

Engineering a New Equation: How Women Are Shaping the Future of the Chemical World

The chemical industry thrives on innovation, but it won’t reach its full potential until women are equally represented and empowered. Akanksha Prasad discusses the progress made so far and the continued action needed in the chemical field. Source

By |2025-09-29T10:14:00-04:00September 29th, 2025|Categories: Uncategorized|

NASA’s Webb Telescope Studies Moon-Forming Disk Around Massive Planet

Explore Webb Science James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NASA’s Webb Telescope… Webb News Latest News Latest Images Webb’s Blog Awards X (offsite – login reqd) Instagram (offsite – login reqd) Facebook (offsite- login reqd) Youtube (offsite) Overview About Who is James Webb? Fact Sheet Impacts+Benefits FAQ Webb Timeline Science Overview and Goals Early Universe [...]

By |2025-09-29T10:00:00-04:00September 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A Rocket in the Sun

Photo of the Day On the morning of September 24 a rocket crosses the bright solar disk in this long range telescopic snapshot captured from Orlando, Florida. That's about 50 miles north of its Kennedy Space Center launch site. This rocket carried three new space weather missions to space. Signals have now been successfully [...]

By |2025-09-27T13:44:28-04:00September 27th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |
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