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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Abigail Fraeman, Deputy Project Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Thursday, July 3, 2025 The team was delighted this morning to learn that Wednesday’s drive had completed flawlessly, placing us in a stable position facing a ~3 foot high ridge located ~35 feet away.  ThisContinue reading “Curiosity Blog, Sols 4589 – 4592: Setting up to explore Volcán Peña Blanca”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Lucy Thompson, APXS Collaborator and Senior Research Scientist at the University of New Brunswick, CanadaEarth planning date: Wednesday, July 2, 2025As we traverse the boxwork terrain, we are encountering a series of more resistant ridges/bedrock patches, and areas that are more rubbly and tend to form lower reliefContinue reading “Curiosity Blog, Sol 4588: Ridges and troughs”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In this May 23, 2025, image, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim works inside the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft completing cargo operations before it undocked from the International Space Station’s Harmony module several hours later. Kim launched to the International Space Station on April 8, 2025; this is his first mission. SeeContinue reading “Working in Space”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A riotous expanse of gas, dust, and stars stake out the dazzling territory of a duo of star clusters in this combined image from NASA’s Hubble and Webb space telescopes. Open clusters NGC 460 and NGC 456 reside in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way.Continue reading “NASA’s Hubble and Webb Telescopes Reveal Two Faces of a Star Cluster Duo”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY As humanity prepares to return to the lunar surface, Aaisha Ali is behind the scenes ensuring mission readiness for astronauts set to orbit the Moon during Artemis II.  Ali is the Artemis ground control flight lead at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. She makes sure her team has theContinue reading “Aaisha Ali: From Marine Biology to the Artemis Control Room “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY July 3, 2025 Jefferson Davis Howell, Jr., former director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, died July 2, in Bee Cave, Texas. He was 85 years old. Howell was a champion of the construction of the International Space Station, working on a deadline to complete the orbiting lab byContinue reading “NASA Remembers Former Johnson Director Jefferson Howell”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Since launching in 2023, NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution mission, or TEMPO, has been measuring the quality of the air we breathe from 22,000 miles above the ground. June 19 marked the successful completion of TEMPO’s 20-month-long initial prime mission, and based on the quality of measurements to date,Continue reading “NASA Mission Monitoring Air Quality from Space Extended “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A previously unexplored globular cluster glitters with multicolored stars in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. Globular clusters like this one, called ESO 591-12 or Palomar 8, are spherical collections of tens of thousands to millions of stars tightly bound together by gravity. Globular clusters generally form early in theContinue reading “Hubble Observations Give “Missing” Globular Cluster Time to Shine”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Many of us grew up using paint-by-number sets to create beautiful color pictures. For years now, NASA engineers studying aircraft and rocket designs in wind tunnels have flipped that childhood pastime, using computers to generate images from “numbers-by-paint” – pressure sensitive paint (PSP), that is. Now, advances in the useContinue reading “NASA Advances Pressure Sensitive Paint Research Capability”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The United States flag adorns an aluminum plate mounted at the base of the mast, or “head,” of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. This image of the plate was taken on June 28, 2025 (the 1,548th day, or sol, of the mission), by the WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for OperationsContinue reading “Old Glory on the Red Planet”