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NASA’s Polar Ice Experiment Paves Way for Future Moon Missions 

By |2025-02-12T15:57:00-05:00February 12th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Artistic rendering of Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander on the surface of the Moon.Credit: Intuitive Machines NASA’s Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) is preparing to explore the Moon’s subsurface and analyze where lunar resources may reside. The experiment’s two key instruments will demonstrate our ability to extract and analyze lunar soil to better understand the [...]

A Rainbow-colored “Feather” in the Martian Sky

By |2025-02-12T14:36:00-05:00February 12th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this feather-shaped iridescent cloud just after sunset on Jan. 27, 2023. Studying the colors in iridescent clouds tells scientists something about particle size within the clouds and how they grow over time. These clouds were captured as part of a seasonal imaging campaign to study noctilucent, or “night-shining” clouds. [...]

NASA’s Advancements in Space Continue Generating Products on Earth  

By |2025-02-12T14:20:00-05:00February 12th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The cover of Spinoff 2025, NASA’s annual publication that chronicles commercial products born from space technology, is a detailed view of the lunar surface captured by cameras on the Orion spacecraft on a close approach of the Moon during the Artemis I mission.Credit: NASA The latest edition of NASA’s Spinoff publication, which highlights the successful [...]

15 Years Ago: STS-130 Delivers Tranquility and Cupola to Space Station

By |2025-02-12T11:57:00-05:00February 12th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

On Feb. 8, 2010, space shuttle Endeavour began its 24th trip into space, on the 20A assembly mission to the International Space Station, the 32nd shuttle flight to the orbiting lab. The STS-130 crew included Commander George Zamka, Pilot Terry Virts, and Mission Specialists Kathryn Hire, Stephen Robinson, Nicholas Patrick, and Robert Behnken. During the [...]

Why Does the Moon Look Larger at the Horizon? We Asked a NASA Scientist: Episode 50

By |2025-02-12T10:04:00-05:00February 12th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) We’ve been talking about this for 2,000 years. Aristotle mentions it. And in our own time, scientists are designing experiments to figure out exactly what’s going on. But there’s no consensus yet. Here’s what we do know. The atmosphere isn’t magnifying the Moon. If [...]

NASA Telescopes Deliver Stellar Bouquet in Time for Valentine’s Day

By |2025-02-12T10:03:00-05:00February 12th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State Univ./L. Townsley et al.; Infrared: NASA/JPL-CalTech/SST; Optical: NASA/STScI/HST; Radio: ESO/NAOJ/NRAO/ALMA; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Schmidt, N. Wolk, K. Arcand A bouquet of thousands of stars in bloom has arrived. This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the spectacular star forming region called 30 Doradus. By combining X-ray data from [...]

NASA Successfully Joins Sunshade to Roman Observatory’s ‘Exoskeleton’

By |2025-02-12T10:00:00-05:00February 12th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully integrated the mission’s deployable aperture cover — a visor-like sunshade that will help prevent unwanted light from entering the telescope — to the outer barrel assembly, another structure designed to shield the telescope from stray light in addition to keeping it at a stable temperature. Technicians [...]

Sols 4450-4451: Making the Most of a Monday

By |2025-02-11T19:27:00-05:00February 11th, 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 2 min read Sols [...]

NASA Invites Media to Artemis II Moon Mission Activities at Kennedy

By |2025-02-11T17:29:00-05:00February 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A massive crane lifts NASA’s Orion spacecraft out of the Final Assembly and System Testing cell and moves it to the altitude chamber to complete further testing on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024, inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The altitude chamber simulates deep space vacuum [...]

Space Shuttle Endeavour Takes Flight

By |2025-02-11T17:16:00-05:00February 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Blue mach diamonds from the main engine nozzles and bright exhaust from the solid rocket boosters mark the successful launch of space shuttle Endeavour 25 years ago on Feb. 11, 2000. The STS-99 mission crew – including astronauts from NASA, the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA), and the European Space Agency (ESA) [...]

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