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Idaho Students to Connect with NASA Astronaut Aboard Space Station

By |2025-01-03T13:08:00-05:00January 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Don Pettit points a camera outside a window on the International Space Station’s Poisk module for a sun photography session. (Credit: NASA) Students from Hawthorne Elementary School in Boise, Idaho, will have the chance to hear NASA astronaut Don Pettit answer their prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and [...]

NASA’s LEXI Will Provide X-Ray Vision of Earth’s Magnetosphere

By |2025-01-03T12:00:00-05:00January 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read NASA’s LEXI Will Provide X-Ray Vision of Earth’s Magnetosphere A NASA X-ray imager is heading to the Moon as part of NASA’s Artemis campaign, where it will capture the first global images of the magnetic field that shields Earth from solar radiation. The Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager, or LEXI, instrument [...]

NASA, NOAA to Announce 2024 Global Temperatures, Climate Conditions

By |2025-01-03T11:09:00-05:00January 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

This map depicts global temperature anomalies for meteorological summer in 2024 (June, July, and August). It shows how much warmer or cooler different regions of Earth were compared to the baseline average from 1951 to 1980. (Credit: NASA/NOAA) Climate researchers from NASA and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) will release their annual assessments of [...]

Lagniappe for January 2025

By |2025-01-03T10:46:00-05:00January 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 Min Read Lagniappe for January 2025 Explore the January 2025 issue, highlighting the year in review at NASA Stennis, and how to become a NASA test conductor at the official visitor center and more! Explore Lagniappe for January 2025 featuring: NASA Stennis Celebrates Key Testing, Operations Milestones in 2024 NASA Exhibit Puts Visitors [...]

Mission Possible: Coordinating Travel for NASA Employees

By |2025-01-03T10:05:00-05:00January 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Heather Seagren grew up near NASA’s Stennis Space Center and visited for field trips as a child. Now, as a financial management specialist, Seagren coordinates work trips for NASA employees at the south Mississippi NASA center. NASA/Danny Nowlin A leap of faith for Heather [...]

NASA Workshops Culturally Inclusive Planetary Engagement with Educators

By |2025-01-02T15:47:00-05:00January 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Learn Home Science Activation NASA Workshops Culturally… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science   2 min read NASA Workshops Culturally Inclusive Planetary Engagement with Educators From November 6-8, 2024, the NASA Science Activation Program’s Planetary Resources and Content Heroes (ReaCH) project held a Culturally Inclusive [...]

NASA Anticipates Lunar Findings From Next-Generation Retroreflector

By |2025-01-02T15:15:00-05:00January 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Next Generation Lunar Retroreflector, or NGLR-1, is one of 10 payloads set to fly aboard the next delivery for NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative in 2025. NGLR-1, outfitted with a retroreflector, will be delivered to the lunar surface to reflect very short [...]

Best of 2024: Total Solar Eclipse in Indianapolis

By |2025-01-02T14:17:00-05:00January 2nd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Joel Kowsky NASA photographer Joel Kowsky captured this image of the Monday, April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Indiana. The total solar eclipse swept across a narrow portion of the North American continent from Mexico’s Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland, Canada. A partial solar eclipse [...]

January’s Night Sky Notes: The Red Planet

By |2025-01-01T05:00:00-05:00January 1st, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read January’s Night Sky Notes: The Red Planet by Kat Troche of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Have you looked up at the night sky this season and noticed a bright object sporting a reddish hue to the left of Orion? This is none other than the planet Mars! January will [...]

Astronomy Activation Ambassadors: A New Era

By |2024-12-31T14:35:00-05:00December 31st, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Learn Home Astronomy Activation… STEM Engagement at NASA Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science   3 min read Astronomy Activation Ambassadors: A New Era The NASA Science Activation Program’s Astronomy Activation Ambassadors (AAA) project aims to measurably enhance student Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) [...]

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