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NASA Tests Epic Solution for Supersonic Parachute Deliveries

By |2025-07-30T12:00:00-04:00July 30th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA/Lori Losey The best way to solve a mystery is by gathering evidence and building a case. That’s exactly what NASA researchers are doing with a series of research flights aimed at advancing a sensor for supersonic parachutes. The clues they find could help [...]

NASA-ISRO Satellite Lifts Off to Track Earth’s Changing Surfaces

By |2025-07-30T10:10:00-04:00July 30th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The Indian Space Research Organisation’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle lifts off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre on India’s southeastern coast at 8:10 a.m. EDT (5:40 a.m. IST), July 30, 2025.Credit: ISRO Carrying an advanced radar system that will produce a dynamic, three-dimensional view of Earth in unprecedented detail, the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite [...]

NASA’s Webb Traces Details of Complex Planetary Nebula

By |2025-07-30T10:00:00-04:00July 30th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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Looking Forward to the Moon

By |2025-07-30T09:13:00-04:00July 30th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA/Shawn Quinn On May 8, 2022, NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems’ Program Manager Shawn Quinn captured this crop of a full frame image of the Hadley–Apennine region of Earth’s Moon including the Apollo 15 landing site (very near the edge of the shadow of one of the lunar mountains in the area). Building upon the pioneers [...]

Laine Havens: Melding Science and Storytelling

By |2025-07-30T08:30:00-04:00July 30th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Science Communication Intern – Goddard Space Flight Center Laine Havens — now a senior at Cornell University and three-time NASA intern — grew up with a deep curiosity about how the universe works and a family that encouraged her to explore it. Throughout her childhood, Laine was immersed in science and exposed to wonderful science [...]

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4614-4615: Driving Along the Boxwork

By |2025-07-29T22:00:00-04:00July 29th, 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 [...]

Spheres in the Sand

By |2025-07-29T19:34:00-04:00July 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Explore This Section 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 Orbiter [...]

NASA Selects Firefly for New Artemis Science, Tech Delivery to Moon

By |2025-07-29T16:26:00-04:00July 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

This artist’s concept of Blue Ghost Mission 4 shows Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander and NASA payloads in the lunar South Pole Region, through NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative.Credit: Firefly Aerospace NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace of Cedar Park, Texas, $176.7 million to deliver two rovers and three scientific instruments to the lunar [...]

Adam and Hirsa Present Research on the Ring-Sheared Drop

By |2025-07-29T12:42:00-04:00July 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Adam and Hirsa Present Research on the Ring-Sheared Drop Abnormal fibrous, extracellular, proteinaceous deposits found in organs and tissues are associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s. (“Amyloid fibril formation in microgravity: Distinguishing interfacial and flow effects” NNX13AQ22G). The Ring Sheared Drop investigation studies the biophysics of protein amyloidogenesis in the [...]

NASA Drop Test Supports Safer Air Taxi Designs

By |2025-07-29T11:30:00-04:00July 29th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

An aircraft body modeled after an air taxi with weighted test dummies inside is being prepared for a drop test by researchers at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The test was completed June 26, 2025, at Langley’s Landing and Impact Research Facility. The aircraft was dropped from a tall steel structure, known as a gantry, [...]

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