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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Earth planning date: Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025 We’re planning sols 4439 and 4440 on the first day of the Lunar New Year here on Earth, and I’m the Geology/Mineralogy Science Theme Lead for today. The new year is a time for all kinds of abundance and good luck, and weContinue reading “Sols 4439-4440: A Lunar New Year on Mars”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) observatory rests horizontally in this April 2024 image taken at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado. This orientation shows the observatory’s three layers of photon shields – the metallic concentric cones. Over a two-year planned mission,Continue reading “SPHEREx’s Concentric Cones”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Feb. 4, to share information about the agency’s upcoming PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, which is targeted to launch no earlier than Thursday, Feb. 27. The agency’s PUNCH mission is a constellation of fourContinue reading “NASA Invites Media to Discuss PUNCH Mission to Study Solar Wind”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA and its international partners have approved the crew for Axiom Space’s fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, launching from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than spring 2025. Peggy Whitson, former NASA astronaut and director of human spaceflight at Axiom Space, will commandContinue reading “NASA, Partners to Welcome Fourth Axiom Space Mission to Space Station”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Did you know that NASA conducts ground-breaking research in space on materials like metals, foams, and crystals? This research could lead to next-generation technology that both enables deep-space exploration and benefits humanity.   Here are six studies scientists have conducted on the International Space Station that could have profound implications forContinue reading “6 NASA Experiments on Materials, Benefitting Space and Earth”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This Oct. 29, 2018, image from the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captures geysers of gas and dust that occur in springtime in the South Polar region of Mars. As the Sun rises higher in the sky, the thick coating of carbon dioxide ice that accumulated over theContinue reading “Geyser Season on Mars”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Read this release in English here. Los estudios de las rocas y el polvo del asteroide Bennu que fueron traídos a la Tierra por la nave espacial de la misión Orígenes, Interpretación Espectral, Identificación de Recursos y Seguridad – Explorador de Regolito (OSIRIS-REx, por sus siglas en inglés) de la NASAContinue reading “Muestra de la NASA del asteroide Bennu revela un ‘caldo’ con los ingredientes de la vida”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. Studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security–Regolith Explorer) spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life, as well as a history of saltwater thatContinue reading “NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Sample Reveals Mix of Life’s Ingredients”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY On NASA’s Artemis II test flight, the first crewed mission under the agency’s Artemis campaign, astronauts will take the controls of the Orion spacecraft and periodically fly it manually during the flight around the Moon and back. The mission provides the first opportunity to ensure the spacecraft operates as designedContinue reading “How to Fly NASA’s Orion Spacecraft”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A NASA photographer captured the full “wolf” moon rising over the Lincoln Memorial and Memorial Bridge on Jan. 13, 2025. The Maine Farmers’ Almanac began publishing Native American names for full moons in the 1930s. Over time, these names have become widely known and used. According to this almanac, theContinue reading “Wolf Moon in Washington”