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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY As extreme weather events increase around the world due to climate change, the need for further research into our warming planet has increased as well. For NASA, climate research involves not only conducting studies of these events, but also empowering outside researchers to do the same. The artificial intelligence (AI)Continue reading “AI for Earth: How NASA’s Artificial Intelligence and Open Science Efforts Combat Climate Change”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Earth planning date: Wednesday, April 17, 2024 Curiosity continues to make progress along the margin of upper Gediz Vallis ridge, investigating the broken bedrock in our workspace and acquiring images of the ridge deposit as the rover drives south. Today’s 2-sol plan focused on a DRT, contact science, and driveContinue reading “Sols 4159-4160: A Fully Loaded First Sol”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Real satellite imagery from NASA’s Terra, Aqua, and Landsat missions takes the shape of whales and swirling clouds in the agency’s Earth Day 2024 poster, “Water Touches Everything.” The major ocean basins – Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Indian, and Southern – shape our planet’s climate and weather by absorbing, storing, andContinue reading “Water Touches Everything”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Imagery from the solar-powered spacecraft provides close-ups of intriguing features on the hellish Jovian moon. Scientists on NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter have transformed data collected during two recent flybys of Io into animations that highlight two of the Jovian moon’s most dramatic features: a mountain and an almost glass-smoothContinue reading “NASA’s Juno Gives Aerial Views of Mountain, Lava Lake on Io”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The rapid pace of preparations for the first Moon landing continued in April 1969. The successful Apollo 9 mission in March cleared the way for Apollo 10 to test all three components of the spacecraft in lunar orbit in May, in a dress rehearsal for the landing itself. Apollo 10Continue reading “55 Years Ago: Three Months Until the Moon Landing”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Two Black Brant IX sounding rockets launched from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, April 17, 2024, during an M-class solar flare for NASA’s sounding rocket solar flare campaign. The first rocket launched at 2:13 p.m. local Alaska time for the Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager (FOXSI) mission thatContinue reading “Two NASA Sounding Rockets Launch from Alaska During Solar Flare”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Science in Space: April 2024 Everyone on Earth is touched by the effects of climate change, such as hotter temperatures, shifts in rain patterns, and sea level rise. Collecting climate data helps communities better plan for these changes and build more resilience to them. The International Space Station, one ofContinue reading “Climate Change Research”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Like boulders, rocks, and pebbles scattered across a landscape, asteroids come in a wide range of sizes. Cataloging asteroids in space is tricky because they are faint and they don’t stop to be photographed as they zip along their orbits around the Sun. Astronomers recently used a trove of archivedContinue reading “Hubble Goes Hunting for Small Main Belt Asteroids”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Open Science Data Repository Team Hosts Blue Origin’s Dr Erika Wagner at the Meet the Expert Seminar Series Focused on Flight Integrators Friday, March 29, 2024—The Open Science Data Repository hosted the sixth presentation showcasing flight integrators in the “Meet the Expert” series. This series is targeted for the OpenContinue reading “OSDR hosts Blue Origin Erika Wagner”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) has returned to work after science observations were suspended on April 8, when the spacecraft entered into safe mode. All instruments are powered on and, following the successful download of previously collected science data stored in the mission’s recorder, are now making new scienceContinue reading “NASA’s TESS Returns to Science Operations”