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Innovative Instrument Reveals Hidden Features Deep Inside the Van Allen Radiation Belts

By |2024-09-17T09:40:00-04:00September 17th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Figure 1. An artist’s concept of the Van Allen belts with a cutaway section of the giant donuts of radiation that surround Earth. Image Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio A new instrument is using advanced detection techniques and leveraging an orbit with specific characteristics to increase our understanding of the Van [...]

65 Years Ago: First Powered Flight of the X-15 Hypersonic Rocket Plane 

By |2024-09-17T09:00:00-04:00September 17th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The X-15 hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft, built by North American Aviation (NAA), greatly expanded our knowledge of flight at speeds exceeding Mach 6 and altitudes above 250,000 feet. A joint project among NASA, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Navy, the X-15’s first powered flight took place on Sept. 17, 1959, at the Flight Research [...]

NASA, GE Aerospace Advancing Hybrid-Electric Airliners with HyTEC

By |2024-09-17T06:00:00-04:00September 17th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This artist concept shows a NASA-developed small-core jet engine installed in General Electric Aerospace’s CFM RISE jet engine design. The more fuel-efficient small core powers a large open turbofan, which also helps increase efficiency. The effort is part of NASA’s Sustainable Flight National Partnership [...]

Engineer Zaida Hernandez

By |2024-09-16T15:02:00-04:00September 16th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

“I would say family and part of that ‘first-gen experience’ [shaped me]. Being born in the U.S. gave me a lot of opportunities that my family and parents were robbed of because of situations in their home country. It shaped me to be a hard worker and to aspire to large things because not only was [...]

Reaching New Heights to Unravel Deep Martian History!

By |2024-09-16T15:01:00-04:00September 16th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Mars: Perseverance (Mars 2020) Perseverance Home Mission Overview Rover Components Mars Rock Samples Where is Perseverance? Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Mission Updates Science Overview Objectives Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Perseverance Raw Images Images Videos Audio More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance [...]

Station Science Top News: September 13, 2024

By |2024-09-16T14:52:00-04:00September 16th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) researchers examined the structures of four titanium-based compounds solidified in levitators in microgravity and on the ground and found that the internal microstructures were generally similar. These results could support development of new materials for use in space manufacturing. To produce glass or metal alloys on Earth, raw materials are placed into a [...]

Ottawa’s Fall Rhapsody

By |2024-09-16T14:36:00-04:00September 16th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this view of peak fall foliage around Ottawa, Canada on Oct. 14, 2020. Sugar maple leaves turn orange-red, and hickories turn golden-bronze during autumn, regionally known as “the Fall Rhapsody.” Fall color reaches its peak when air temperatures drop and shortened daylight triggers plants to slow and [...]

Going Back-to-School with NASA Data

By |2024-09-16T14:05:00-04:00September 16th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) As students head back to school, teachers have a new tool that brings NASA satellite data down to their earthly classrooms. The My NASA Data homepage categorizes content by areas of study called spheres and also Earth as a system. NASA/mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov For over 50 [...]

Aura at 20 Years

By |2024-09-16T13:00:00-04:00September 16th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Earth Observer Earth Home Earth Observer Home Editor’s Corner Feature Articles Meeting Summaries News Science in the News Calendars In Memoriam More Archives 14 min read Aura at 20 Years Introduction In the 1990s and early 2000s, an international team of engineers and scientists designed an integrated observatory for atmospheric composition – a bold [...]

NASA Mobilizes Resource for HBCU Scholars, Highlighted at Conference

By |2024-09-16T10:28:00-04:00September 16th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A NASA MITTIC participant during the competition’s on-site experience and Space Tank at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Dec. 7, 2022. (Credit: Riley McClenaghan) NASA will spotlight its program to engage underrepresented and underserved students in science, technology, engineering, and math at the 2024 National Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Week Conference in [...]

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