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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA will host a pair of news conferences Thursday, Jan. 25, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to highlight upcoming crew rotation missions to the International Space Station. A mission overview news conference will begin at 1 p.m. EST and cover NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission to the microgravityContinue reading “NASA Sets Briefings for Crew-8, International Space Station Missions”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite sensor on the NOAA-NASA Suomi NPP satellite captured this image of the aurora borealis, or northern lights, over western Canada at 3:23 a.m. MST (5:23 a.m. EST) on November 5, 2023. Auroras are colorful ribbons of light appearing in night skies, incited by a strong geomagneticContinue reading “An Aurora in Another Light”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Greater than the sum of its parts: NASA tests the capability of a system that includes simple robots, structural building blocks, and smart algorithms to build functional, high-performance large-scale structures, ultimately enabling autonomous deep-space infrastructure.

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This month marks the 20th anniversary of Spirit and Opportunity’s landing on Mars, part of a mission whose legacy will extend far into the future. In January 2004, twin NASA rovers named Spirit and Opportunity touched down on opposite sides of Mars, kicking off a new era of interplanetary roboticContinue reading “20 Years After Landing: How NASA’s Twin Rovers Changed Mars Science”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A new, comprehensive analysis of satellite data finds that majority of glaciers on the landmass have retreated significantly. The Greenland Ice Sheet has shed about one-fifth more ice mass in the past four decades than previously estimated, researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California reported in a newContinue reading “NASA Study: More Greenland Ice Lost Than Previously Estimated”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY High above the icy landscape of Earth’s southernmost continent, the Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory (GUSTO) scientific balloon mission has been afloat for more than 15 days since its launch from McMurdo, Antarctica, on Dec. 31, 7:30 p.m. local time (Dec. 31, 1:30 a.m. EST). GUSTO is mapping a largeContinue reading “GUSTO Balloon Mission Maintains Course Circling Antarctic Skies”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Sedimentary and planetary geologist Michael Thorpe finds the stories rocks have to tell, those on Earth and those from Mars.

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Some of the finest, smallest details in the universe – the gaps between elongated groups of stars – may soon help astronomers reveal dark matter in greater detail than ever before. After NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches, by May 2027, researchers will use its images to explore what exists between looping tendrilsContinue reading “NASA’s Roman to Search for Signs of Dark Matter Clumps”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Researchers analyzing images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found that galaxies in the early universe are often flat and elongated, like surfboards and pool noodles – and are rarely round, like volleyballs or frisbees. “Roughly 50 to 80% of the galaxies we studied appear to be flattened inContinue reading “Webb Shows Many Early Galaxies Looked Like Pool Noodles, Surfboards”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Jan. 16, 2024 RELEASE: 24-001 Four astronauts, including the current record holder for the longest single U.S. stay in space aboard the International Space Station, will make their first public appearance in Houston since returning to Earth. The crew also will be available for interviews before the event at 5Continue reading “Expedition 69 Crew, Three NASA Astronauts to Share Mission Highlights”