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NASA Supports GoAERO University Awardees for Emergency Aircraft Prototyping

By |2025-02-11T09:54:00-05:00February 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Artist’s concept of an emergency response flyer from a team at Texas A&M University and Oklahoma State University, one of 14 university teams that received NASA-supported GoAERO awards in 2025.Texas A&M University and Oklahoma State University With support from NASA, the international GoAERO Prize [...]

Sols 4447–4449: Looking Back at the Marker Band Valley

By |2025-02-10T18:56:00-05:00February 10th, 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 3 min read Sols [...]

Mount Everest from Space

By |2025-02-10T17:09:00-05:00February 10th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

This view from space shuttle Columbia shows Mount Everest, which reaches 29,028 feet in elevation (8,848 meters), along with many glaciers. Mount Everest is to the left of the V-shaped valley.NASA Crew aboard space shuttle Columbia captured this image of Mount Everest on Nov. 30, 1996, during the STS-80 mission. STS-80, the final shuttle flight [...]

NASA Awards Launch Service Task Order for Pandora Mission

By |2025-02-10T16:41:00-05:00February 10th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA NASA has selected SpaceX of Starbase, Texas, to provide the launch service for the agency’s Pandora mission, which will study at least 20 known exoplanets and their host stars to find out how changes in stars affect our observations of exoplanet atmospheres. The selection is part of NASA’s Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and [...]

Station Science Top News: Feb. 7, 2025

By |2025-02-10T16:33:00-05:00February 10th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Measuring water loss from space This study showed that the International Space Station’s ECOSTRESS instrument estimates of evapotranspiration (transfer of water to the atmosphere from Earth’s surface and plants) are comparable to ground-based reference values. This finding suggests space measurements could provide guidance for improved water management on large scales. Worsening droughts due to climate [...]

More NASA Science Received During Earth Orbit, Firefly Begins Lunar Transit Phase

By |2025-02-10T13:07:00-05:00February 10th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

After a successful Trans Lunar Injection burn on Saturday, Feb. 8, Firefly’s spacecraft carrying NASA science and tech to the Moon has departed Earth’s orbit and begun its four-day transit to the Moon’s orbit. Blue Ghost will then spend approximately 16 days in lunar orbit before beginning its descent operations. Since launching more than three [...]

NASA Scientist Jonathan Gardner Named AAS 2023 Fellow

By |2025-02-10T12:55:00-05:00February 10th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Jonathan Gardner of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, was selected as a 2023 Fellow of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) for extraordinary achievement and service. He is being recognized for exceptional community service and scientific leadership of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope science teams, leading to Webb’s flight hardware exceeding all of [...]

Jeremy Schnittman: Looking Into the Mystery of Black Holes

By |2025-02-10T12:55:00-05:00February 10th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

u0022The really interesting thing to me is how time theoretically acts strangely around black holes. According to Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, black holes change the flow of time,u0022 said Jeremy Schnittman, Goddard research astrophysicist. u0022So much of how we experience the world is based on time, time marching steadily forward. Anything that changes that [...]

Shari Miller: Keeping the Mission and the Environment In Balance

By |2025-02-10T12:55:00-05:00February 10th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

u0022From a natural resources perspective, I often say that Wallops has all the aspects of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (which shares its home with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge) in Florida but in a compressed area,u0022 said Shari Miller, NEPA manager and natural resources manager at Wallops Flight Facility. u0022We protect all these species [...]

Mark SubbaRao Brings Data to Life Through Art

By |2025-02-10T12:55:00-05:00February 10th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

“Data visualization has recently exploded as a communication tool,” said Mark SubbaRao, information technology specialist and lead for NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio. “As data becomes bigger and more complex, visualization becomes an even more important tool for understanding that data.”Rachel Connolly / Courtesy of Mark SubbaRao Name: Mark SubbaRao Title: Lead, Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) [...]

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