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Sols 4539-4540: Back After a Productive Weekend Plan

By |2025-05-13T21:29:00-04:00May 13th, 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 1 min [...]

Sols 4536-4538: Dusty Martian Magnets

By |2025-05-13T20:49:00-04:00May 13th, 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 2 min [...]

Hi-Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing Project 2025 Spring Review

By |2025-05-13T19:05:00-04:00May 13th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Advanced Composites Consortium team members gathered during May 2025 at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia for a technical review of activities in the Hi-Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing project.NASA NASA and its partners in the Advanced Composites Consortium gathered at the agency’s Langley Research [...]

NASA to Fly Saudi Arabia CubeSat Aboard Artemis II Test Flight

By |2025-05-13T18:00:00-04:00May 13th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

NASA and the Saudi Space Agency have signed an agreement for a CubeSat to fly on NASA’s Artemis II test flight. President Donald J. Trump, alongside His Royal Highness Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, announced the agreement Tuesday in Riyadh as part of an ongoing trip to Saudi Arabia. The Saudi Space Agency’s CubeSat will measure [...]

La NASA calibra una segunda sonda de detección de impactos para las pruebas del X-59

By |2025-05-13T17:39:00-04:00May 13th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) El piloto de pruebas de la NASA Nils Larson inspecciona el avión de investigación F-15D de la agencia en el Centro de Investigación de Vuelo Armstrong de la NASA en Edwards, California, antes de un vuelo de calibración para una sonda de detección de [...]

NASA’s Artemis III Core Stage Receives Thermal Protection Coating

By |2025-05-13T16:06:00-04:00May 13th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Teams at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans move a liquid hydrogen tank for the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket into the factory’s final assembly area on April 22, 2025. The propellant tank is one of five major elements that make up the 212-foot-tall rocket stage. NASA/Steven Seipel NASA completed another step to [...]

NASA Hosts Industry, Government, Academia to Explore Partnerships

By |2025-05-13T15:40:00-04:00May 13th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Sasha Weston, project support, Small Spacecraft and Distributed Systems program, with the Project and Engineering Support Services II contract with NASA, discusses the program with a participant, right, during Ames Partnership Days on April 29, 2025, at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. Through partnerships, the program advances technologies that enable small spacecraft [...]

Take a Tour of the Cosmos with New Interactives from NASA’s Universe of Learning

By |2025-05-13T15:07:00-04:00May 13th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This SectionScienceScience ActivationTake a Tour of the Cosmos with…OverviewLearning ResourcesScience Activation TeamsSME MapOpportunitiesMoreScience Activation StoriesCitizen Science  4 min read Take a Tour of the Cosmos with New Interactives from NASA’s Universe of Learning Ready for a tour of the cosmos? NASA’s Universe of Learning has released a new, dynamic way for lifelong learners to [...]

Lightning in Southeast Asia

By |2025-05-13T12:13:00-04:00May 13th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Don Pettit A flash of lightning shines brighter than the lights of nearby cities in this Oct. 29, 2024, image taken by astronaut Don Pettit while aboard the International Space Station. At the time of this photograph, little to no moonlight illuminated the scene. This allows astronauts to see and photograph a variety of light [...]

What is a Black Hole? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 59

By |2025-05-13T11:52:00-04:00May 13th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) What is a black hole? Well, the name is actually a little misleading because black holes aren’t actually holes. They’re regions in space that have a gravitational pull that is so strong that nothing can escape, not even light. Scientists know about two different [...]

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