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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Margaret Deahn, Ph.D. Student at Purdue University NASA’s Mars 2020 rover is continuing to explore a boundary visible from orbit dividing bright, fractured outcrop from darker, smoother regolith (also known as a contact). The team has called this region “Westport,” (a fitting title, as the rover is exploringContinue reading “Linking Local Lithologies to a Larger Landscape”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Data provided by the water satellite, a joint effort between NASA and the French space agency, is helping to improve tsunami forecast models, benefitting coastal communities. The SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) satellite captured the tsunami spawned by an 8.8 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka PeninsulaContinue reading “US-French SWOT Satellite Measures Tsunami After Massive Quake”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The advanced air mobility industry is currently working to produce novel aircraft ranging from air taxis to autonomous cargo drones, and all of those designs will require extensive testing – which is why NASA is working to give them a head-start by studying a special kind of model wing. TheContinue reading “NASA Uses Wind Tunnel to Test Advanced Air Mobility Aircraft Wing”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The Artemis II crew (from left to right) CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman don their Orion Crew Survival System Suits for a multi-day crew module training beginning July 31, 2025, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Behind theContinue reading “NASA’s Artemis II Crew Trains in Orion”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found strong evidence of a giant planet orbiting a star in the stellar system closest to our own Sun. At just 4 light-years away from Earth, the Alpha Centauri triple star system has long been a compelling target in the search forContinue reading “NASA’s Webb Finds New Evidence for Planet Around Closest Solar Twin”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Three employees from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia recently earned the Silver Snoopy award, a prestigious honor given to NASA employees and contractors across the agency for exceptional achievements related to spaceflight safety or mission success. Christopher Broadaway, Jeremy Shidner, and Sara Wilson received the awards during aContinue reading “Three NASA Langley Employees Win Prestigious Silver Snoopy Awards “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A team of astronomers has taken the sharpest-ever picture of the unexpected interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS using the crisp vision of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble is one of many missions across NASA’s fleet of space telescopes slated to observe this comet, together providing more information about its size and physicalContinue reading “As NASA Missions Study Interstellar Comet, Hubble Makes Size Estimate”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Across 42 years at NASA, Wade Sisler — executive producer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland—watched the edge of human knowledge progress. During that time, the tools for visualizing and communicating those discoveries evolved just as rapidly. “I’ve spent my career surrounded by people with amazing curiosityContinue reading “Wade Sisler: Aficionado of Wonder Serving the Cosmos”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Abigail Fraeman, Deputy Project Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025. Today was a very special day for Curiosity as the rover celebrated the start of a 14th year on Mars. Curiosity is currently exploring the mysterious boxwork formations. On Monday, theContinue reading “Curiosity Blog, Sols 4622-4623: Kicking Off (Earth) Year 14 With an Investigation of Veins”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 12:05 p.m. EDT, Thursday, Aug. 7, for the undocking of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission from the International Space Station. Pending weather conditions, splashdown is targeted at 11:58 a.m., Friday, Aug. 8. Crew-10 will be the first mission to splash down offContinue reading “NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Crew-10 Return, Splashdown”