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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA is seeking design ideas from global creators for a zero gravity indicator that will fly aboard the agency’s Artemis II test flight. Zero gravity indicators are small, plush items carried aboard spacecraft to provide a visual indication of when the spacecraft and its crew reach space. This opportunity, withContinue reading “NASA Invites Creators to Design Mascot for Artemis Moon Mission”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA Astronaut Tracy Dyson points to the Expedition 71 patch on her flight suit on Wednesday, March 5, 2025. Dyson and her fellow Expedition 71 crewmates Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps answered questions from students at Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School in Washington. While aboardContinue reading “NASA Astronaut Tracy Dyson Speaks to Students”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Students from Oregon will have the chance to connect with NASA astronaut Don Pettit as he answers prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics-related questions from aboard the International Space Station. Watch the 20-minute space-to-Earth call at 2:15 p.m. EDT on Monday, March 10, on NASA+ and learn how to watchContinue reading “NASA Astronaut to Answer Questions from Students in Oregon”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY High-resolution near-infrared light captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows extraordinary new detail and structure in Lynds 483 (L483). Two actively forming stars are responsible for the shimmering ejections of gas and dust that gleam in orange, blue, and purple in this representative color image. Over tens of thousandsContinue reading “NASA Webb Wows With Incredible Detail in Actively Forming Star System”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a vibrant spiral galaxy called NGC 5042 resides about 48 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Hydra (the water snake). The galaxy nicely fills the frame of this Hubble image, while a single, foreground star from the Milky Way shines with cross-shapedContinue reading “Hubble Spies a Spiral in the Water Snake”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Melissa Rice, Professor of Planetary Science at Western Washington University  This week, the Perseverance team faced a stubborn engineering challenge. After successfully collecting a core called “Green Gardens” from the “Tablelands” location, the rover struggled to seal the sample tube, despite multiple attempts. This isn’t entirely unprecedented —Continue reading “Sealing the Deal”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Susanne Schwenzer, Planetary Geologist at The Open University Earth planning date: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 The Martian landscape never ceases to amaze me, there is so much variation in texture and color! As a mineralogist, I marvel at them, but my colleagues trained in sedimentology regularly teach meContinue reading “Sols 4473-4474: So Many Rocks, So Many Textures!”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Technicians with ESA (European Space Agency) and Airbus installed the four solar array wings on NASA’s Orion spacecraft for Artemis II on March 3. The solar array wings, attached to the service module, deploy after Orion reaches space to power the spacecraft. Orion’s service module provides propulsion, thermal control, andContinue reading “Engineers Install Orion Solar Array Wings for Artemis II”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission with agency astronauts Nick Hague, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov is preparing to return to Earth following their science mission aboard the International Space Station. Hague, Williams, and Wilmore completed more than 900 hours of research between over 150 unique scientificContinue reading “NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Scientific Mission on Space Station Concludes”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 8 captured an image of Kachemak Bay’s turbid, cloudy waters on September 20, 2024. This cloudiness comes from glacial flour: bits of pulverized rock ground down by glaciers that has the consistency of flour. Several meltwater streams rich with the particles, sometimes called suspended sediment, absorb and scatter sunlight inContinue reading “Kachemak Bay’s Stony Waters”