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FARMing with Data: OpenET Launches new Tool for Farmers and Ranchers

By |2025-03-04T15:41:00-05:00March 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Dwane Roth (right), a fourth generation grain farmer in Finney County, Kansas, stands with nephew Zion (left) in one of their corn fields. Roth’s farm became one of the first Water Technology Farms in Kansas around 2016, and he has been using OpenET data [...]

NASA Sets Coverage for Intuitive Machines’ Second Private Moon Landing

By |2025-03-04T14:12:00-05:00March 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission lunar lander, Athena, entering lunar orbit on Monday, March 3. Credit: Intuitive Machines Carrying NASA technology demonstrations and science investigations, Intuitive Machines is targeting their Moon landing no earlier than 12:32 p.m. EST on Thursday, March 6. The company’s Nova-C lunar lander is slated to land in Mons Mouton, a lunar [...]

March’s Night Sky Notes: Messier Madness

By |2025-03-04T13:55:00-05:00March 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 Min Read March’s Night Sky Notes: Messier Madness Showing a large portion of M66, this Hubble photo is a composite of images obtained at visible and infrared wavelengths. The images have been combined to represent the real colors of the galaxy. Credits: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration; Acknowledgment: Davide De [...]

NASA Successfully Acquires GPS Signals on Moon 

By |2025-03-04T13:14:00-05:00March 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 Min Read NASA Successfully Acquires GPS Signals on Moon  An artist's concept of the Blue Ghost lunar lander receiving GNSS signals from Earth. Credits: NASA/Dave Ryan NASA and the Italian Space Agency made history on March 3, when the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) became the first technology demonstration to acquire and track [...]

Blue Ghost Begins Surface Operations, Captures Descent Video, Sunrise

By |2025-03-04T13:04:00-05:00March 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

Shortly after landing on the Moon March 2, Firefly Aerospace and NASA teams kicked off surface operations for the science and technology instruments on the company’s Blue Ghost lunar lander. Firefly also captured the lunar sunrise and a video during descent and landing. Landing footage captured during descent and landing of Firefly’s Blue Ghost [...]

30 Years Ago: STS-67, the Astro-2 Mission 

By |2025-03-04T13:00:00-05:00March 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

On March 2, 1995, space shuttle Endeavour launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on its eighth trip into space, on the STS-67 Astro-2 mission. The crew included Commander Stephen Oswald, Pilot William Gregory, Mission Specialists John Grunsfeld, Wendy Lawrence, and Tamara Jernigan – who served as payload commander on the mission – and [...]

Blue Ghost Lands on Moon

By |2025-03-04T12:54:00-05:00March 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Carrying a suite of NASA science and technology, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 successfully landed at 3:34 a.m. EST on Sunday, March 2, 2025, near a volcanic feature called Mons Latreille within Mare Crisium, a more than 300-mile-wide basin located in the northeast quadrant of the Moon’s near side.Firefly Aerospace The shadow of Firefly [...]

X-ray Signal Points to Destroyed Planet, Chandra Finds

By |2025-03-04T11:01:00-05:00March 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/Univ Mexico/S. Estrada-Dorado et al.; Ultraviolet: NASA/JPL; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI (M. Meixner)/NRAO (T.A. Rector); Infrared: ESO/VISTA/J. Emerson; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/K. Arcand; A planet may have been destroyed by a white dwarf at the center of a planetary nebula — the first time this has been seen. As described in our latest press release, this would [...]

NASA’s Hubble Finds Kuiper Belt Duo May Be Trio

By |2025-03-04T11:00:00-05:00March 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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Lagniappe for March 2025

By |2025-03-04T10:46:00-05:00March 4th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 Min Read Lagniappe for March 2025 Explore the March 2025 issue, highlighting the installation of the new production RS-25 engine at NASA Stennis, and more! Explore Lagniappe for March 2025 featuring: NASA Stennis Teams Install New Production RS-25 Engine for Upcoming Hot Fire NASA Stennis Flashback: Learning About Rocket Engine Exhaust for Safe [...]

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