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NASA’s Compact Infrared Cameras Enable New Science

By |2024-05-22T14:09:00-04:00May 22nd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A new, higher-resolution infrared camera outfitted with a variety of lightweight filters could probe sunlight reflected off Earth’s upper atmosphere and surface, improve forest fire warnings, and reveal the molecular composition of other planets. The cameras use sensitive, high-resolution strained-layer superlattice sensors, initially developed at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, using IRAD, [...]

NASA, IBM Research Release New AI Model for Weather, Climate

By |2024-05-22T13:19:00-04:00May 22nd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read NASA, IBM Research Release New AI Model for Weather, Climate With the Privthi-weather-climate foundational model, researchers will be able to support many climate applications that can be used throughout the science community. These applications include detecting and improving models for severe weather patterns or natural disasters such as hurricanes. NASA’s Terra [...]

NASA, IBM Research to Release New AI Model for Weather, Climate

By |2024-05-22T13:19:00-04:00May 22nd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read NASA, IBM Research to Release New AI Model for Weather, Climate With the Privthi-weather-climate foundational model, researchers will be able to support many climate applications that can be used throughout the science community. These applications include detecting and improving models for severe weather patterns or natural disasters such as hurricanes. NASA’s [...]

Spotted: ‘Death Star’ Black Holes in Action

By |2024-05-22T12:57:00-04:00May 22nd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Abell 478 and NGC 5044.X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Bologna/F. Ubertosi; Insets Radio: NSF/NRAO/VLBA; Wide field Image: Optical/IR: Univ. of Hawaii/Pan-STARRS; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk A team of astronomers have studied 16 supermassive black holes that are firing powerful beams into space, to track where these beams, or jets, are pointing now and where they were aimed in the [...]

NASA’s Psyche Fires Up Its Sci-Fi-Worthy Thrusters

By |2024-05-22T11:59:00-04:00May 22nd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This artist’s concept depicts NASA’s Psyche spacecraft headed to the metal-rich asteroid Psyche in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The spacecraft launched in October 2023 and will arrive at its destination in 2029.NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU The spacecraft already is beyond the distance of [...]

Sols 1151-1152: Rocky Roads in the Margin Unit

By |2024-05-22T11:24:00-04:00May 22nd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Sols 1151-1152: Rocky Roads in the Margin Unit Mars Perseverance Sol 1150 – Left Navigation Camera: Perseverance’s afternoon view looking towards the northwest. The rocky terrain in the foreground is part of the margin unit that is currently being investigated by the team. Beyond lies Nereteva Vallis, an ancient river channel [...]

Sols 4191-4192: Communication

By |2024-05-22T11:16:00-04:00May 22nd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Sols 4191-4192: Communication This image was taken by Left Navigation Camera onboard NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 4190 (2024-05-20 07:37:47 UTC). NASA/JPL-Caltech Earth planning date: Monday, May 20, 2024 A number of national holidays are taking place around the world this week and next, unofficially marking the start of summer [...]

2024 Dream with Us Design Challenge Winners

By |2024-05-21T19:20:00-04:00May 21st, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Congratulations! Our 2024 Dream with Us challenge has concluded, and we are pleased to share the winning projects: Middle School 1st Place: The Unstoppable Changemakers Team (Anika J. and Aidan R.) 2nd Place: Aerial Disaster Response Association Team (Adhavan B., Sanat N., Ganesh P., [...]

Modeling the Hawaiian Shoreline

By |2024-05-21T16:18:00-04:00May 21st, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Lisa Tanh, Matilda Anokye, Ian Lee, Connor Racette The island of Hawai’i and surrounding waters glow in unusual shades in this 2022 model made through NASA DEVELOP. The model was created to help the County of Hawai’i in their shoreline setback plan. The image shows areas of high flood risk (blue), as well as sea [...]

NASA’s Heliophysics Experiment to Study Sun on European Mission

By |2024-05-21T16:11:00-04:00May 21st, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The Joint EUV coronal Diagnostic Investigation (JEDI) will fly aboard the European Space Agency’s Vigil space weather mission and capture new views that will help researchers connect features on the Sun’s surface to those in the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona.Credits: NASA NASA announced Tuesday it selected a new instrument to study the Sun and [...]

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