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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY As students head back to school, teachers have a new tool that brings NASA satellite data down to their earthly classrooms. For over 50 years of observing Earth, NASA’s satellites have collected petabytes of global science data (that’s millions and millions of gigabytes) – with terabytes more coming in by theContinue reading “Going Back-to-School with NASA Data”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Introduction In the 1990s and early 2000s, an international team of engineers and scientists designed an integrated observatory for atmospheric composition – a bold endeavor to provide unprecedented detail that was essential to understanding how Earth’s ozone (O3) layer and air quality respond to changes in atmospheric composition caused byContinue reading “Aura at 20 Years”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY 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 Philadelphia, from Sunday, Sept. 15, to Thursday, Sept. 19. As part of the White House’s initiative to advance educational equityContinue reading “NASA Mobilizes Resource for HBCU Scholars, Highlighted at Conference”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The Apollo 11 mission in July 1969 completed the goal set by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 to land a man on the Moon and return him safely to the Earth before the end of the decade. At the time, NASA planned nine more Apollo Moon landing missions ofContinue reading “55 Years Ago: Space Task Group Proposes Post-Apollo Plan to President Nixon”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Manuel Retana arrived in the U.S. at 15 years old, unable to speak English and with nothing but a dream and $200 in his pocket. Now, he plays a crucial role implementing life support systems on spacecraft that will carry humans to the Moon and, eventually, Mars—paving the way forContinue reading “NASA Johnson Honors Hispanic Heritage: Meet Manuel Retana “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Earth planning date: Friday, Sept. 13, 2024 Today, I need to talk about ChemCam, our laser and imaging instrument on the top of Curiosity’s mast. It one of the instruments in the “head” that gives Curiosity that cute look as if it were looking around tilting its head down toContinue reading “Sols 4304-4006: 12 Years, 42 Drill Holes, and Now… 1 Million ChemCam Shots!”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA has awarded the NASA Academic Mission Services 2 (NAMS-2) contract to Crown Consulting Inc., of Arlington, Virginia, to provide the agency’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, aeronautics and exploration technology research and development support. NAMS-2 is a single award hybrid cost-plus-fixed-fee indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity contract with a maximumContinue reading “NASA Ames Selects Aeronautics and Exploration Support Contractor”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY An astronaut aboard the International Space Station snapped this picture of the Moon as the station orbited 265 miles above the U.S. state of Minnesota on Dec. 17, 2021. Astronauts aboard the orbital lab take images using handheld digital cameras, usually through windows in the station’s cupola, for Crew EarthContinue reading “Waxing Gibbous Moon over Minnesota”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Earth planning date: Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024 The rover is on its way from the Tungsten Hills site to the next priority site for Gediz Vallis channel exploration, in which we plan to get in close enough for arm science to one of the numerous large dark-toned “float” blocks inContinue reading “Sols 4302-4303: West Side of Upper Gediz Vallis, From Tungsten Hills to the Next Rocky Waypoint”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA‘s Watts on the Moon Challenge, designed to advance the nation’s lunar exploration goals under the Artemis campaign by challenging United States innovators to develop breakthrough power transmission and energy storage technologies that could enable long-duration Moon missions, concludes on Friday, Sept. 20, at the Great Lakes Science Center inContinue reading “NASA’s Lunar Challenge Participants to Showcase Innovations During Awards”