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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s Transform to Open Science (TOPS; https://nasa.github.io/Transform-to-Open-Science/) initiative aims to transform agencies, organizations, and communities to an inclusive culture of open science. TOPS’s first priority is to develop an open science curriculum to train scientists and researchers as part of our 5-year program. A set of TOPS Champions at selectedContinue reading “Instructor-Led TOPS Workshop at MSFC”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY As part of his NASA SERVIR research project, Pontus Olofsson (ST11) co-authored a paper for publication in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. The paper, titled Applications of Remote Sensing for Land Use Planning Scenarios With Suitability Analysis, presents results from a suitability analysisContinue reading “Paper on Land-Use Planning in West Africa Published in IEEE J-STARS”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA will announce the winners of the final phase of its Break the Ice Lunar Challenge on Wednesday, June 12 at Alabama A&M University’s (AAMU) Agribition Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The challenge aims to develop new technologies that could support a sustained human presence on the Moon by the endContinue reading “NASA Invites Media to Watch Agency’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge Final Phase”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Patrick Duran and Anita LeRoy (ST11) met with Samir Belabbes from the United Nations Institute for Training and Research to investigate ways for SPoRT to provide NASA remote sensing products to the UN Satellite Centre. The new collaboration springs from a presentation given by Belabbes at last year’s Joint ApplicationsContinue reading “SPoRT Undertakes New Collaboration with the United Nations (U.N.) Satellite Centre”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY From 2/12-16/24, representatives of SERVIR’s Science Coordination Office participated in an Inclusive Climate Action Workshop in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Hosted by SERVIR’s Southeast Asia program, along with USAID, the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, and the World Wildlife Fund, the event was organized as a space to exchange ideas on howContinue reading “SERVIR Co-hosts Regional Workshop on Inclusive Climate Action”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the barred spiral galaxy NGC 3059, which lies about 57 million light-years from Earth. Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 collected the data in May 2024 as part of an observing program that studied a number of galaxies. All of the observations used theContinue reading “Hubble Examines a Barred Spiral’s Light”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA has awarded contracts to six companies to supply liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen in support of operations at agency centers and facilities across the United States. The indefinite-delivery/fixed-price contract runs from Monday, July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2029. The awards and approximate maximum contract values are: The totalContinue reading “NASA Awards Contracts for Acquisition of Liquid Nitrogen, Oxygen”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to study the disk of gas and dust around a young, very low-mass star. The results reveal the largest number of carbon-containing molecules seen to date in such a disk. These findings have implications for the potential compositionContinue reading “Webb Finds Plethora of Carbon Molecules Around Young Star”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA astronauts Victor Glover (left), Reid Wiseman (middle left), and Christina Koch (middle right), and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen (right), pose for a photo after a Moon Tree dedication ceremony, Tuesday, June 4, 2024, at the United States Capitol in Washington. The American Sweetgum tree pictured wasContinue reading “Moon Tree Dedication with Artemis II Crew”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Earth planning date: Wednesday June 5, 2024 Curiosity was still at the ice cream shop for planning today, with the delicious feast of rock flavours still at arm’s reach and begging to be sampled. In the previous plan, one such flavour, captured in today’s blog image and perhaps most analogous to RockyContinue reading “Sols 4207-4208: A Taste of Rocky Road”