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Planets Beware: NASA Unburies Danger Zones of Star Cluster

By |2024-10-28T14:19:00-04:00October 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Drake et al, IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Spitzer; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk Most stars form in collections, called clusters or associations, that include very massive stars. These giant stars send out large amounts of high-energy radiation, which can disrupt relatively fragile disks of dust and gas that are in the process of coalescing to form new [...]

Watch How Students Help NASA Grow Plants in Space: Growing Beyond Earth

By |2024-10-28T13:59:00-04:00October 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Learn Home Watch How Students Help NASA… Citizen Science Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science   2 min read Watch How Students Help NASA Grow Plants in Space: Growing Beyond Earth Since 2015, students from across the USA have been partnering with scientists at NASA [...]

An Opportunity to Study Water

By |2024-10-28T13:28:00-04:00October 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Don Pettit NASA astronaut Don Pettit fills a sphere of water with food coloring in this image from Oct. 20, 2024. Pettit calls experiments like these “science of opportunity” – moments of scientific exploration that spontaneously come to mind because of the unique experience of being on the International Space Station. During his previous missions, Pettit [...]

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Looks Back While Climbing Slippery Slope

By |2024-10-28T13:13:00-04:00October 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This enhanced-color mosaic was taken on Sept. 27 by the Perseverance rover while climbing the western wall of Jezero Crater. Many of the landmarks visited by the rover during its 3½-year exploration of Mars can be seen.NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS On its way up the side of [...]

NASA Announces STEM Engagement Lead, Chief Economist Retirements

By |2024-10-28T12:36:00-04:00October 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Portraits of Mike Kincaid, associate administrator, Office of STEM Engagement (left), and Alexander MacDonald, chief economist (right). NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Monday Mike Kincaid, associate administrator, Office of STEM Engagement (OSTEM), and Alexander MacDonald, chief economist, will retire from the agency. Following Kincaid’s departure on Nov. 30, Kris Brown, deputy associate administrator for strategy [...]

NASA Successfully Integrates Coronagraph for Roman Space Telescope

By |2024-10-28T11:20:00-04:00October 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The Roman Coronagraph is integrated with the Instrument Carrier for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in a clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., in October 2024.NASA/Sydney Rohde NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully completed integration [...]

NASA Provides Update on Artemis III Moon Landing Regions

By |2024-10-28T09:26:00-04:00October 28th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

This image shows nine candidate landing regions for NASA’s Artemis III mission, with each region containing multiple potential sites for the first crewed landing on the Moon in more than 50 years. The background image of the lunar South Pole terrain within the nine regions is a mosaic of LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) WAC (Wide [...]

Sols 4343-4344: Late Slide, Late Changes

By |2024-10-25T17:55:00-04:00October 25th, 2024|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 More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions The Solar System The Sun [...]

NASA Welcomes Chile as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory

By |2024-10-25T17:04:00-04:00October 25th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

From left to right, Chilean Ambassador to the United States Juan Gabriel Valdés, Chilean Minister of Science, Technology, Knowledge, and Innovation Aisén Etcheverry Escudero, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, and United States Department of State Acting Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Jennifer R. Littlejohn pose for a photo [...]

Red Rocks with Green Spots at ‘Serpentine Rapids’

By |2024-10-25T16:59:00-04:00October 25th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Mars: Perseverance (Mars 2020) Perseverance Home Mission Overview Rover Components Mars Rock Samples Where is Perseverance? Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Mission Updates Science Overview Objectives Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Perseverance Raw Images Images Videos Audio More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance [...]

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