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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY On March 8, 2004, the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit took the first image of Earth from the surface of another planet. The Earth appearing as nothing more than a bright star provided a new perspective on our home planet, a perspective reshaped over the past eight decades as cameras aboardContinue reading “20 Years Ago: First Image of Earth from Mars and Other Postcards of Home”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Two recently discovered exoplanets, gas giants possibly similar to Saturn, could be candidates for further atmospheric investigation.

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Celebrate one of the world’s most famous numbers with a set of math problems involving real space missions, courtesy of the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. March 14 marks the annual celebration of the mathematical constant pi, aka the Greek letter π. Its infinite number of digits is usually rounded toContinue reading “NASA Pi Day Challenge Serves Up a Mathematical Marvel”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Things are heating up in the atmosphere, and NASA is helping space start-ups stay cool.   NASA has decades of expertise in creating technology that protects spacecraft from the intense heat generated when entering an atmosphere. As emerging companies develop innovative ways to do business in space, they know whereContinue reading “NASA Helps Emerging Space Companies ‘Take the Heat’”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Astronaut David R. Scott, command module pilot for the Apollo 9 Earth-orbital mission, stands in the command module’s open hatch during his stand-up spacewalk on March 6, 1969. Astronaut Russell L. Schweickart, lunar module pilot, took this photograph of Scott while also performing a spacewalk. He was positioned on theContinue reading “Apollo 9 Astronaut David Scott’s Spacewalk”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Construction and testing are complete on the CADRE rovers, which will map the lunar surface together as a tech demo to show the promise of multirobot missions. A trio of small rovers that will explore the Moon in sync with one another are rolling toward launch. Engineers at NASA’s JetContinue reading “NASA’s Network of Small Moon-Bound Rovers Is Ready to Roll”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Texas A&M sent 31 students to the Antarctic this year—and they did some vital NASA science while they were there. Meteorology students, oceanography students and education psychology students worked with Dr. Chrissy Wiederwohl to collect data for NASA’s FjordPhyto project. The data reveal how meltwater from glaciers affects phytoplankton, the base of theContinue reading “Students Become FjordPhyto Volunteers and Discover that Antarctica Is Much Colder Than Texas”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY As NASA and Boeing enter the early stages of producing the X-66, the first X-plane specifically focused on helping the United States achieve net-zero aviation emissions by 2050, the team is already picturing what the aircraft will look like soaring above the clouds.  A new rendering of the X-66 fromContinue reading “New Look at NASA, Boeing Sustainable Experimental Airliner “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY     NASA’s Glenn Research Center is encouraging the public to prepare to safely view this awe-inspiring event. YOU can help us build excitement and raise awareness about eclipse safety by taking photos of people – including yourself! – wearing eclipse glasses. The goal is to show how you will beContinue reading “#ShowUsYourSpecs — Help Raise Awareness About Eclipse Safety”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA conducted a full-duration RS-25 engine hot fire March 6, continuing a final round of certification testing for production of new engines to help power the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on future Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond. The full-duration test on the Fred Haise Test Stand atContinue reading “NASA Continues Artemis Moon Rocket Engine Test Series”