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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4622-4623: Kicking Off (Earth) Year 14 With an Investigation of Veins

By |2025-08-06T21:01:00-04:00August 6th, 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 Mars Home 3 min [...]

NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Crew-10 Return, Splashdown

By |2025-08-06T17:39:00-04:00August 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

From left, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 members Kirill Peskov of Roscosmos, NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi share a light moment during a group portrait inside the International Space Station’s Kibo laboratory module.Credit: NASA NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 12:05 p.m. EDT, Thursday, [...]

Snapshot Wisconsin Celebrates 10 Years and 100 Million Photos Collected!

By |2025-08-06T16:42:00-04:00August 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A white-tailed deer fawn photographed on a Snapshot Wisconsin trail camera in Vernon County, WI Credit: WI DNR The Snapshot Wisconsin project recently collected their 100 millionth trail camera photo! What’s more, this milestone coincides with the project’s 10-year anniversary. Congratulations to the team and everyone who’s participated! Snapshot Wisconsin utilizes a statewide network [...]

NASA Supercomputers Take on Life Near Greenland’s Most Active Glacier

By |2025-08-06T15:00:00-04:00August 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Ocean currents swirl around North America (center left) and Greenland (upper right) in this data visualization created using NASA’s ECCO model. Advanced computing is helping oceanographers decipher hot spots of phytoplankton growth.NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio As Greenland’s ice retreats, it’s fueling tiny ocean organisms. [...]

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Captures Mars Vista As Clear As Day

By |2025-08-06T14:53:00-04:00August 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Captured at a location called “Falbreen,” this enhanced-color mosaic features deceptively blue skies and the 43rd rock abrasion (the white patch at center-left) of the NASA Perseverance rover’s mission at Mars. The 96 images stitched together to create this 360-degree view were acquired May 26, 2025.NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS In this natural-color version of the “Falbreen” panorama, [...]

NASA Astronaut Barry “Butch” Wilmore Retires

By |2025-08-06T13:53:00-04:00August 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Astronaut Barry “Butch” WilmoreNASA/Aubrey Gemignani After 25 years at NASA, flying in four different spacecraft, accumulating 464 days in space, astronaut and test pilot Butch Wilmore has retired from NASA. The Tennessee native earned a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Tennessee Technological University and a master’s degree in aviation systems [...]

Curiosity Looks Back Toward Its Landing Site

By |2025-08-06T12:15:00-04:00August 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

This view of tracks trailing NASA’s Curiosity rover was captured July 26, 2025, as the rover simultaneously relayed data to a Mars orbiter.NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Curiosity rover captured a view of its tracks on July 26, 2025. The robotic scientist is now exploring a region of lower Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-tall (5-kilometer-tall) mountain. The pale peak [...]

Mississippi Attorney Serves NASA and the Nation

By |2025-08-06T10:00:00-04:00August 6th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Nathan Jermyn frequented NASA Stennis on field trips when he was younger. Now, he works as an attorney-advisor supporting NASA Stennis and the NASA Shared Services Center. NASA/Danny Nowlin Before Nathan Jermyn could dig into the legal frameworks at NASA, he had to answer a different call. Jermyn participated in a one-day orientation in the [...]

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4618-4619: The Boxwork Structures Continue to Call to Us

By |2025-08-05T16:58:00-04:00August 5th, 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 Mars Home 3 min [...]

NASA Selects Six Companies to Provide Orbital Transfer Vehicle Studies

By |2025-08-05T16:09:00-04:00August 5th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Rendering of Quantum’s Ranger spacecraft engineered for rapid maneuverability and adaptability, enabling multi-destination delivery for missions from low Earth orbit to cislunar space.Credit: Arrow Science and Technology/Quantum Space   Rendering of Blue Ring, a large high-mobility space platform providing full-service payload delivery, on-board edge computing, hosting, and end-to-end mission operations.Credit: Blue Origin Rendering of Firefly’s [...]

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