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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Researchers successfully produced cellulose from bacteria cultured on the International Space Station for four weeks. The bacteria used in the experiment, K. hansenii, is known to produce the highest amount of cellulose and could be considered for large-scale production in microgravity to support the development of materials used in construction,Continue reading “Station Science Top News: August 23, 2024”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY By Rick Smith On Aug. 26, 1999, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory opened its powerful telescopic eye in orbit and captured its awe-inspiring “first light” images of Cassiopeia A, a supernova remnant roughly 11,000 light-years from Earth. That first observation was far more detailed than anything seen by previous X-ray telescopes, evenContinue reading “Cassiopeia A, Then the Cosmos: 25 Years of Chandra X-ray Science”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA and Blue Origin are preparing for the agency’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission, which begins on the inaugural launch of the company’s New Glenn rocket. The mission will study the solar wind’s interaction with the magnetosphere on Mars. Blue Origin is targeting no earlier thanContinue reading “NASA, Blue Origin Invite Media to New Glenn Launch of Mars Mission”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY As NASA and its partners continue to conduct groundbreaking research aboard the International Space Station, the agency announced Monday it is seeking U.S. industry, academia, international partners, and other stakeholders’ feedback on newly developed goals and objectives that will help guide the next generation of human presence in low EarthContinue reading “NASA Invites Public Input on Low Earth Orbit Microgravity Strategy”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 23, 2024 One of the many challenges of operating a rover on another planet is that we don’t always know where we’re going to be located before planning starts each day. Although we do plan our drives in advance, Curiosity doesn’t blindly follow the ordersContinue reading “Sols 4284–4286: Environmental Science Extravaganza”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Earth planning date: Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024 Having stayed in place for quite a few sols during our Kings Canyon drill campaign, we’re looking forward to doing a bump (ie: a short drive) and accomplishing some science in a new region. I’m on the SA-SPaH (ie: robotic arm) downlink team,Continue reading “Sols 4282-4283: Bumping Away from Kings Canyon”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s Solar Array Sun Shield has successfully completed recent tests, signaling that the assembly is on track to be completed on schedule. The panels are designed to power and shade the observatory, enabling all the mission’s observations and helping keep the instruments cool. The RomanContinue reading “Solar Panels for NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Pass Key Tests”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Roughly 210,000 light-years away, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of our Milky Way galaxy’s closest neighbors. In fact, this small galaxy is one of the Milky Way’s “satellite” galaxies, which orbit our home spiral galaxy. Nested within the SMC is this spectacular star cluster, known as NGC 346.Continue reading “Hubble Captures Unique Ultraviolet View of a Spectacular Star Cluster”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY It got called the crisis in cosmology. But now astronomers can explain some surprising recent discoveries. When astronomers got their first glimpses of galaxies in the early universe from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, they were expecting to find galactic pipsqueaks, but instead they found what appeared to be aContinue reading “Webb Finds Early Galaxies Weren’t Too Big for Their Britches After All”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The following expedition marks the third installment of NASA Astrobiology’s fieldwork series, the newly rebranded Our Alien Earth, streaming on NASA+. Check out all three episodes following teams of astrobiologists from the lava fields of Holuhraun, Iceland, to the Isua Greenstone Belt of Greenland, and finally, the undersea volcanoes ofContinue reading “The Making of Our Alien Earth: The Undersea Volcanoes of Santorini, Greece”