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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Ben HockmanNASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory A basketball-sized towbody containing a camera, atmospheric sampling instruments, and support hardware is suspended on a multi-kilometer tether from a high-altitude balloon in the Venusian atmosphere, allowing it to peer beneath the dense cloud layer and image the surface at high resolution. The towbody harvestsContinue reading “TOBIAS: Tethered Observatory for Balloon-based Imaging and Atmospheric Sampling”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Marco QuadrelliNASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory There is a strong coupling mechanism between the lithosphere, ionosphere, magnetosphere, atmosphere, and the plasmasphere of many planetary bodies. For example, the ionosphere has been shown to respond to space weather events induced by Solar activity, as well as to atmospheric events, and events inContinue reading “PULSAR: Planetary pULSe-tAkeR”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Read this release in English here. En el año 2024, la temperatura promedio de la superficie de la Tierra fue la más cálida que se haya registrado, según un análisis liderado por científicos de la NASA. “Una vez más, se ha batido el récord de temperatura: 2024 fue el añoContinue reading “Aumentan las temperaturas: La NASA confirma que el 2024 fue el año más cálido registrado”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY As NASA celebrates 55 years since the historic Apollo 11 crewed lunar landing, the agency also is preparing new navigation and positioning technology for the Artemis campaign, the agency’s modern lunar exploration program. A technology demonstration helping pave the way for these developments is the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE)Continue reading “NASA and Italian Space Agency Test Future Lunar Navigation Technology”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The trip to Mars and back is not one for the faint of heart. We’re not talking days, weeks, or months. But there are technologies that could help transport a crew on that round-trip journey in a relatively quick two years. One option NASA is exploring is nuclear electric propulsion,Continue reading “Nuclear Electric Propulsion Technology Could Make Missions to Mars Faster”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A suborbital rocket is scheduled to launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia during a window extending from Monday, Jan. 13, through Thursday, Jan. 16. This launch supports the Missile Defense Agency, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division’s White Sands Detachment, and other Department of Defense organizations. No real-timeContinue reading “NASA Wallops to Support January Sounding Rocket Launch”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Earth’s average surface temperature in 2024 was the warmest on record, according to an analysis led by NASA scientists. Global temperatures in 2024 were 2.30 degrees Fahrenheit (1.28 degrees Celsius) above the agency’s 20th-century baseline (1951-1980), which tops the record set in 2023. The new record comes after 15 consecutiveContinue reading “Temperatures Rising: NASA Confirms 2024 Warmest Year on Record”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY LMS instrument aboard the Blue Ghost Lander heading to Mare Crisium in mid-January As part of its Artemis campaign, NASA is developing a series of increasingly complex lunar deliveries and missions to ultimately build a sustained human presence at the Moon for decades to come. Through the agency’s CLPS (CommercialContinue reading “NASA Instrument on Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lander to Study Lunar Interior”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Students from the Toms River School District in New Jersey will have the chance to connect with NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Butch Wilmore as they answer  prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) related questions from aboard the International Space Station. Watch the 20-minute space-to-Earth call in collaboration withContinue reading “New Jersey Students to Hear from NASA Astronauts Aboard Space Station”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a tiny patch of sky in the constellation Hydra. The stars and galaxies depicted here span a mind-bending range of distances. The objects in this image that are nearest to us are stars within our own Milky Way galaxy. You can easily spotContinue reading “Hubble Rings In the New Year”