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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The Suomi NPP satellite acquired this image of a plume of Saharan dust as winds lofted it over the Atlantic Ocean on Aug. 24, 2024. The Sahara Desert is Earth’s largest source of airborne dust, and the particles can travel for thousands of miles. From late spring to early fall, it isContinue reading “Saharan Dust in the Wind”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In June 2024, a new tail number swept the sky above NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Pilots conducted flights of a Gulfstream IV (G-IV) to evaluate its handling characteristics and to familiarize pilots with it before it begins structural modifications. The research plane is joining the center’sContinue reading “NASA G-IV Plane Will Carry Next-Generation Science Instrument”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The stars in the big Wyoming skies inspired Aaron Vigil as a child to dream big. Today, he’s a mechanical engineer working on the Solar Array Sun Shield (SASS) for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope at Goddard. Name: Aaron VigilTitle: Mechanical EngineerFormal Job Classification: Aerospace Technology, Flight StructuresOrganization: Mechanical Engineering,Continue reading “Aaron Vigil Helps Give SASS to Roman Space Telescope”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Called IceNode, the project envisions a fleet of autonomous robots that would help determine the melt rate of ice shelves. On a remote patch of the windy, frozen Beaufort Sea north of Alaska, engineers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California huddled together, peering down a narrow hole inContinue reading “NASA JPL Developing Underwater Robots to Venture Deep Below Polar Ice”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The universe is a dynamic, ever-changing place where galaxies are dancing, merging together, and shifting appearance. Unfortunately, because these changes take millions or billions of years, telescopes can only provide snapshots, squeezed into a human lifetime. However, galaxies leave behind clues to their history and how they came to be.Continue reading “NASA’s Roman Space Telescope to Investigate Galactic Fossils”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Andromeda III is one of at least 13 dwarf satellite galaxies in orbit around the Andromeda galaxy, or Messier 31, the Milky Way’s closest grand spiral galactic neighbor. Andromeda III is a faint, spheroidal collection of old, reddish stars that appears devoid of new star formation and younger stars. InContinue reading “Hubble Observes An Oddly Organized Satellite”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Explore the universe this fall without leaving your classroom through live virtual engagements with NASA space and aviation experts. NASA is offering a new lineup of stellar virtual experiences to spark STEM excitement and connect students with the agency’s missions, science, careers, and more. The virtual engagements, managed by NASA’sContinue reading “Bring NASA Into Your Classroom This Fall Through Virtual Experiences”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Earth planning date: Wednesday, Aug. 28 2024 We are back … almost, anyways. Today’s parking location is very close to where we parked on sol 4253, and in an area near one of the previous contact science targets “Discovery Pinnacle.” You can read in this blog post that most ofContinue reading “Sols 4289-4290: From Discovery Pinnacle to Kings Canyon and Back Again”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Home ASSURE 2016 has successfully concluded. UPDATES Introduction The 4th International Workshop on Assurance Cases for Software-intensive Systems (ASSURE 2016) is being collocated this year with SAFECOMP 2016, and aims to provide an international forum for high-quality contributions on the application of assurance case principles and techniques to provide assurance thatContinue reading “ASSURE 2016”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Home ASSURE 2015 has successfully concluded. UPDATES Introduction ASSURE 2015, collocated this year with SAFECOMP 2015, aims to provide an international forum for high-quality contributions on the application of assurance case principles and techniques to assure that the dependability properties of critical, software-intensive systems have been met. The main goals ofContinue reading “Assure 2015”