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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program is calling on volunteers of all ages to help students and citizen scientists document seasonal change through leaf color and land cover. The data collection event will support students across North America, Latin America, Central America, and Europe, whoContinue reading “Autumn Leaves – Call for Volunteers”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Operating at altitudes above 99% of the Earth’s atmosphere, NASA’s ER-2 aircraft is the agency’s highest-flying airborne science platform. With its unique ability to observe from as high as 65,000 feet, the ER-2 aircraft is often a platform for Earth science that facilitates new and crucial information about our planet,Continue reading “High-Altitude ER-2 Flights Get Down-to-Earth Data”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The next private CSUG event will take place November 6 – 7 at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Throughout the CSUG, representatives from NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation program and CSP’s industry partners will share updates on commercial SATCOM capability developments and the commercial service demonstrations takingContinue reading “Event Details”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, achieved a key milestone this week for testing a new SLS (Space Launch System) rocket stage to fly on future Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond. Over a two-week period beginning Oct. 10, crews completed a safe lift and installationContinue reading “NASA Stennis Achieves Milestone in Preparation for Future Artemis Testing”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The spiral galaxy in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is IC 3225. It looks remarkably as if it was launched from a cannon, speeding through space like a comet with a tail of gas streaming from its disk behind it. The scenes that galaxies appear in from Earth’s pointContinue reading “Hubble Sees a Celestial Cannonball”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission successfully splashed down at 3:29 a.m. EDT Friday, off Pensacola, Florida, concluding a nearly eight-month science mission and the agency’s eighth commercial crew rotation mission to the International Space Station.   After launching March 3 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space CenterContinue reading “Back on Earth: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Mission Splashes Down Off Florida”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Our universe is full of mysterious sights. Explore some of our most frightful finds from past Halloweens.

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Earth planning date: Monday, Oct. 21, 2024 After Curiosity’s busy weekend, the team is ready for another day of planning. We are able to take advantage of the Earth-Mars time offset to full plan on both sols of our plan today. For this plan, I served as Mobility Rover Planner,Continue reading “Sols 4341-4342: A Bumpy Road”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA has selected the University of New Hampshire in Durham to build Solar Wind Plasma Sensors for the Lagrange 1 Series project, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Next Program. This cost-plus-no-fee contract is valued at approximately $24.3 million and includes the development of twoContinue reading “NASA Awards NOAA’s Solar Wind Plasma Sensors Contract”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Clouds curling around the full “blue” moon gives the night sky an eerie feel in this image from Aug. 19, 2024. As seen here, a blue moon is not actually blue; the third full moon in a season with four full Moons is called a “blue” moon. Another moon willContinue reading “An Orange Blue Moon”