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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The Snapshot Wisconsin project recently collected their 100 millionth trail camera photo! What’s more, this milestone coincides with the project’s 10-year anniversary. Congratulations to the team and everyone who’s participated!

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY As Greenland’s ice retreats, it’s fueling tiny ocean organisms. To test why, scientists turned to a computer model out of JPL and MIT that’s been called a laboratory in itself. Runoff from Greenland’s ice sheet is kicking nutrients up from the ocean depths and boosting phytoplankton growth, a new NASA-supportedContinue reading “NASA Supercomputers Take on Life Near Greenland’s Most Active Glacier”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY ‘Float rocks,’ sand ripples, and vast distances are among the sights to see in the latest high-resolution panorama by the six-wheeled scientist. The imaging team of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took advantage of clear skies on the Red Planet to capture one of the sharpest panoramas of its mission soContinue reading “NASA’s Perseverance Rover Captures Mars Vista As Clear As Day”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY After 25 years at NASA, flying in four different spacecraft, accumulating 464 days in space, astronaut and test pilot Butch Wilmore has retired from NASA. The Tennessee native earned a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Tennessee Technological University and a master’s degree in aviation systems fromContinue reading “NASA Astronaut Barry “Butch” Wilmore Retires”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s Curiosity rover captured a view of its tracks on July 26, 2025. The robotic scientist is now exploring a region of lower Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-tall (5-kilometer-tall) mountain. The pale peak of the mountain can be seen at top right; the rim of Gale Crater, within which the mountainContinue reading “Curiosity Looks Back Toward Its Landing Site”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Before Nathan Jermyn could dig into the legal frameworks at NASA, he had to answer a different call. Jermyn participated in a one-day orientation in the summer of 2023 to begin work as an attorney-advisor supporting NASA’s Stennis Space Center and the NASA Shared Services Center near Bay St. Louis,Continue reading “Mississippi Attorney Serves NASA and the Nation”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Ashley Stroupe, Mission Operations Engineer and Rover Planner at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 1, 2025. Now that we have reached August, our “landiversary” (anniversary of landing — Aug. 5 PDT) is less than a week away! The team is looking forward to beingContinue reading “Curiosity Blog, Sols 4618-4619: The Boxwork Structures Continue to Call to Us”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA has selected six companies to produce studies focused on lower-cost ways to launch and deliver spacecraft of various sizes and forms to multiple, difficult-to-reach orbits. The firm-fixed-price awards comprise nine studies with a maximum total value of approximately $1.4 million. The awardees are: “With the increasing maturity of commercialContinue reading “NASA Selects Six Companies to Provide Orbital Transfer Vehicle Studies”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Looks Back at Science Mission NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission with agency astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov is preparing to return to Earth in early August after a long-duration mission aboard the International SpaceContinue reading “NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Looks Back at Science Mission”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Software designed to give spacecraft more autonomy could support a future where swarms of satellites navigate and complete scientific objectives with limited human intervention. Astronauts living and working on the Moon and Mars will rely on satellites to provide services like navigation, weather, and communications relays. While managing complex missions,Continue reading “What is NASA’s Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy?”