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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The universe is a dusty place, as this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image featuring swirling clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula reveals. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years away in the constellations Dorado and Mensa, the Tarantula Nebula is the most productive star-forming region in theContinue reading “Hubble Captures a Cosmic Cloudscape”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA and its international partners are making progress on Gateway – the lunar space station that will orbit the Moon as a centerpiece of the agency’s Moon to Mars architecture.

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Earth is immersed in material streaming from the Sun. This stream, called the solar wind, is washing over our planet, causing breathtaking auroras, impacting satellites and astronauts in space, and even affecting ground-based infrastructure.  NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission will be the first to imageContinue reading “NASA’s PUNCH Mission to Revolutionize Our View of Solar Wind “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The sparkling spiral galaxy gracing this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is UGC 5460, which sits about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. This image combines four different wavelengths of light to reveal UGC 5460’s central bar of stars, winding spiral arms, and bright blue star clusters.Continue reading “Hubble Spies a Spiral That May Be Hiding an Imposter”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Earth planning date: Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025 During today’s unusual-for-MSL Tuesday planning day (because of the U.S. holiday on Monday), we planned activities under new winter heating constraints. Operating Curiosity on Mars requires attention to a number of factors — power, data volume, terrain roughness, temperature — that affect roverContinue reading “Sols 4458-4460: Winter Schminter”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Jorge Chong is helping shape the future of human spaceflight, one calculation at a time. As a project manager for TRON (Tracking and Ranging via Optical Navigation) and a guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) test engineer in the Aeroscience and Flight Mechanics Division, he is leading efforts to ensure theContinue reading “Guiding Orion: Jorge Chong’s Mission to Advance Deep Space Exploration “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Before Apollo astronauts set foot upon the Moon, much remained unknown about the lunar surface. While most scientists believed the Moon had a solid surface that would support astronauts and their landing craft, a few believed a deep layer of dust covered it that would swallow any visitors. Until 1964,Continue reading “60 Years Ago: Ranger 8 Moon Photos Aid in Apollo Site Selection “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Jeff Dozier, an environmental scientist, snow hydrologist, researcher, academic – and former Earth Observing System Project Scientist – died on November 17, 2024. Jeff’s research focused on snow hydrology and biogeochemistry in mountain environments and addressed the role of stored and melting snow in the hydrologic cycle as well asContinue reading “In Memoriam: Jeff Dozier [1944–2024]”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY With two months to go before flight, the Apollo 13 prime crew of James Lovell, Thomas Mattingly, Fred Haise, and backups John Young, John Swigert, and Charles Duke continued to train for the 10-day mission planned to land in the Fra Mauro highlands region of the Moon. Engineers continued toContinue reading “55 Years Ago: Preps for Apollo 13 and 14, Apollo 12 Crew on World Tour”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Berrien Moore III, Dean of the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences at the University of Oklahoma (OU), director of the National Weather Center in Norman, OK, and Vice President for Weather and Climate Programs, died on December 17, 2024. Berrien earned an undergraduate degree from the University of North CarolinaContinue reading “In Memoriam: Berrien Moore III [1941–2024]”