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NASA Leaders Tour Ames Campus, Meet with Employees

By |2024-08-29T16:17:00-04:00August 29th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA Deputy Associate Administrator Casey Swails examines a sample of algae through a microscope in the Space Biosciences Research Lab. Swails, alongside Director of Cross Agency Strategy Integration John Keefe and Associate Administrator Jim Free, toured the NASA Ames campus on Aug. 28.NASA/Donald Richey [...]

NASA Celebrates 25 Years of High School Aerospace Scholars

By |2024-08-29T15:52:00-04:00August 29th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

For 25 years, the Office of STEM Engagement (OSTEM) at NASA’s Johnson Space Center has inspired and provided high school students across the state of Texas with NASA-focused learning experiences through the High School Aerospace Scholars (HAS) program. The OSTEM team celebrated the milestone on Monday, July 29 at Johnson’s Gilruth Center with poster sessions, [...]

NASA G-IV Plane Will Carry Next-Generation Science Instrument

By |2024-08-29T13:55:00-04:00August 29th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) In a series of baseline flights beginning on June 24, 2024, the G-IV aircraft flew over the Antelope Valley to analyze aircraft performance. To accommodate a new radar instrument developed by JPL, NASA’s Airborne Science Program has selected the Gulfstream-IV aircraft to be [...]

Saharan Dust in the Wind

By |2024-08-29T13:55:00-04:00August 29th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE, GIBS/Worldview, and the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership The Suomi NPP satellite acquired this image of a plume of Saharan dust as winds lofted it over the Atlantic Ocean on Aug. 24, 2024. The Sahara Desert is Earth’s largest source of airborne dust, and [...]

Aaron Vigil Helps Give SASS to Roman Space Telescope

By |2024-08-29T13:23:00-04:00August 29th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The stars in the big Wyoming skies inspired Aaron Vigil as a child to dream big. Today, he’s a mechanical engineer working on the Solar Array Sun Shield (SASS) for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope at Goddard. Name: Aaron Vigil Title: Mechanical Engineer Formal Job Classification: Aerospace Technology, Flight Structures Organization: Mechanical Engineering, Engineering and [...]

NASA JPL Developing Underwater Robots to Venture Deep Below Polar Ice

By |2024-08-29T11:31:00-04:00August 29th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A prototype of a robot built to access underwater areas where Antarctic ice shelves meet land is lowered through the ice during a field test north of Alaska in March. JPL is developing the concept, called IceNode, to take melt-rate measurements that would improve the accuracy of sea level rise projections.U.S. Navy/Scott Barnes Conducted [...]

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope to Investigate Galactic Fossils

By |2024-08-29T10:00:00-04:00August 29th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A galactic halo is a loose collection of stars that extends 15 to 20 times beyond the radius of the brightest part of the galaxy. One of the few galaxies with a well-studied stellar halo is our neighbor, Andromeda, depicted here in the graphic. The stellar halo is illustrated with exaggerated brightness and density to [...]

Bring NASA Into Your Classroom This Fall Through Virtual Experiences

By |2024-08-29T09:07:00-04:00August 29th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Texas High School Aerospace Scholars get a virtual view of an extravehicular activity (EVA) suit in testing at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Photo credit: NASA/Helen Arase Vargas Explore the universe this fall without leaving your classroom through live virtual engagements with NASA [...]

Hubble Observes An Oddly Organized Satellite

By |2024-08-29T08:44:00-04:00August 29th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

2 min read Hubble Observes An Oddly Organized Satellite NASA, ESA, and E. Skillman (University of Minnesota – Twin Cities; Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) Andromeda III is one of at least 13 dwarf satellite galaxies in orbit around the Andromeda galaxy, or Messier 31, the Milky Way’s closest grand spiral galactic [...]

Sols 4289-4290: From Discovery Pinnacle to Kings Canyon and Back Again

By |2024-08-29T04:21:00-04:00August 29th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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