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NASA to Measure Moonquakes With Help From InSight Mars Mission
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The technology behind the two seismometers that make up NASA’s Farside Seismic Suite was used to detect more than a thousand Red Planet quakes. The most sensitive instrument ever built to measure quakes and meteor strikes on other worlds is getting closer to its journey to the mysterious far sideContinue reading “NASA to Measure Moonquakes With Help From InSight Mars Mission”
Apollo 10 Ends Successfully
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, lunar module pilot for the Apollo 10 mission, exits the spacecraft during recovery operations on May 26, 1969. He and the other two crew members already in the raft, Thomas P. Stafford (left) and John W. Young, were brought to the prime recovery ship, USS PrincetonContinue reading “Apollo 10 Ends Successfully”
Earth Science Information Partners Celebrate 25 Years of Collaboration
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Allison Mills, Earth Science Information Partners, allisonmills@esipfed.orgSusan Shingledecker, Earth Science Information Partners, susanshingledecker@esipfed.org Introduction In 2023, the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) community celebrated 25 years since the nonprofit’s founding. Serving as a home for Earth science data and computing professionals, ESIP has evolved alongside the tools and vast expansionContinue reading “Earth Science Information Partners Celebrate 25 Years of Collaboration”
Discovery Alert: Spock’s Home Planet Goes ‘Poof’
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The discovery A planet thought to orbit the star 40 Eridani A – host to Mr. Spock’s fictional home planet, Vulcan, in the “Star Trek” universe – is really a kind of astronomical illusion caused by the pulses and jitters of the star itself, a new study shows. Key factsContinue reading “Discovery Alert: Spock’s Home Planet Goes ‘Poof’”
Arizona Students Go on an Exoplanet Watch
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Exoplanets, planets outside of our own solar system, hold the keys to finding extraterrestrial life and understanding the origin of our own world. Now online students at Arizona State University (ASU) in a new course called Exoplanet Research Experience have become exoplanet scientists by taking part in NASA’s Exoplanet Watch project. Fifteen students fromContinue reading “Arizona Students Go on an Exoplanet Watch “
NASA to Provide Coverage of Progress 88 Launch, Space Station Docking
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA will provide live launch and docking coverage of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the Expedition 71 crew aboard the International Space Station. The unpiloted Progress 88 spacecraft is scheduled to launch at 5:43 a.m. EDT (2:43 p.m. Baikonur time) Thursday,Continue reading “NASA to Provide Coverage of Progress 88 Launch, Space Station Docking”
NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX Unscathed After Searing Pass of Sun
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Mission engineers were confident NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification – Apophis Explorer) spacecraft could weather its closest ever pass of the Sun on Jan. 2, 2024. Their models had predicted that, despite traveling 25 million miles closer to the heat of the Sun than it was originally designedContinue reading “NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX Unscathed After Searing Pass of Sun”
Sols 4195-4198: Feels Like Summer
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Earth planning date: Friday, May 24, 2024 The first sol of this weekend includes an extremely long, 6-hour DAN activity to measure the amount of hydrogen near the surface, in parallel with a standard midday remote science block including: ChemCam LIBS on a smooth, dark rock named “Shadow Lake,” anContinue reading “Sols 4195-4198: Feels Like Summer”
15 Years Ago: First Time all Partners Represented aboard the International Space Station
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY From May 29 to July 17, 2009, for the first time in its history, each of the five partner agencies participating in the International Space Station Program had a crew member living and working aboard the orbiting facility at the same time. The period also marked the beginning of six-personContinue reading “15 Years Ago: First Time all Partners Represented aboard the International Space Station”