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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY To commemorate a milestone anniversary for NASA’s Fermi spacecraft, the mission team has published an e-book called “Our High-Energy Universe: 15 Years with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.” Readers can download the e-book in PDF and EPUB formats. The e-book is aimed at general audiences with an interest in space.Continue reading “Explore the Universe with the First E-Book from NASA’s Fermi”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In celebration of the 34th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s legendary Hubble Space Telescope on April 24, astronomers took a snapshot of the Little Dumbbell Nebula (also known as Messier 76, M76, or NGC 650/651) located 3,400 light-years away in the northern circumpolar constellation Perseus. The photogenic nebula is a favoriteContinue reading “Hubble Celebrates 34th Anniversary with a Look at the Little Dumbbell Nebula”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA has developed an advanced propulsion technology to facilitate future planetary exploration missions using small spacecraft. Not only will this technology enable new types of planetary science missions, one of NASA’s commercial partners is already preparing to use it for another purpose—to extend the lifetimes of spacecraft that are alreadyContinue reading “Pushing the Limits of Sub-Kilowatt Electric Propulsion Technology to Enable Planetary Exploration and Commercial Mission Concepts”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Earth planning date: Friday, April 19, 2024 Curiosity has a three-sol weekend plan coming up as it makes progress along the edge of upper Gediz Vallis ridge. We have observations planned to investigate multiple bedrock targets with interesting rippled textures, dark-toned float, and the ridge. With two contact science targets,Continue reading “Sols 4161-4163: Double Contact Science”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY April 22, 2024  NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen, along with representatives from NASA and the International Space Station National Laboratory, will visit Boston on Wednesday, April 24, and Thursday, April 25, as part of the agency’s Destination Station to highlight research opportunities aboard the station. Destination Station was created to educateContinue reading “NASA Astronaut to Inspire Artemis Generation in Boston”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A new NASA mission is testing a new way to navigate our solar system by hoisting its sail into space – not to catch the wind, but the propulsive power of sunlight. NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System is led by the agency’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. The microwave oven-sizedContinue reading “NASA Invites Media to Learn About New Tech Mission Powered by the Sun”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA announced the winners of the 30th Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) April 22, with Parish Episcopal School, from Dallas, winning first place in the high school division, and the University of Alabama in Huntsville, capturing the college/university title. The annual engineering competition – one of NASA’s longest standing challengesContinue reading “NASA Announces 30th Human Exploration Rover Challenge Winners”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY New space technology ideas emerge every day from innovators across the country, and NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program on Monday selected more than 100 projects for funding. This program offers small businesses in the United States early-stage funding and support to advance the agency’s goals of exploring theContinue reading “NASA Nurtures Promising Tech Ideas from Small Businesses”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This Jan. 30, 2012 image of Earth was created from photographs taken by the Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard the Suomi NPP satellite. Many features of North America and the Western Hemisphere are particularly visible. The composite was created from the data collected during four orbits of theContinue reading “Our Beautiful Water World”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY “Every time I help with visualizing [ocean] simulation data, I learn about an entirely new area of ocean or climate research, and I’m reminded of how vast and rich this area of research is. And…the real magic happens at the intersection and interaction of simulated and observed data. It isContinue reading “‘Vast and Rich:’ Studying the Ocean With NASA Computer Simulations”