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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Perseverance’s drives over the last few weeks have doubled back several times. Why such an unconventional route? Team scientists have been delighted to find new kinds of rocks that could be the oldest ever found on Mars and are eager to collect samples. Perseverance embarked on the Crater Rim CampaignContinue reading “Cookies, Cream, and Crumbling Cores”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Earth planning date: Friday, Feb. 14, 2025 Curiosity is continuing to make progress along the strategic route, traversing laterally across the sulfate (salt) bearing unit toward the boxwork structures. The team celebrated the completion of another successful drive when we received the downlink this morning, and then we immediately gotContinue reading “Sols 4454-4457: Getting Ready to Fill the Long Weekend with Science”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A group of enthusiastic high school students recently visited NASA to learn about facilities and capabilities that enable the agency’s researchers to explore, innovate, and inspire for the benefit of humanity. Engineering club students from Palmdale High School in California were able to connect classroom lessons to real-world applications, sparkingContinue reading “NASA Inspires High School Engineering Club”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute (S3VI) is pleased to announce the official release of the highly anticipated 2024 State-of-the-Art Small Spacecraft Technology report. This significant accomplishment was made possible by the contributions of numerous dedicated people across NASA who graciously supported the preparation of the document as authors and reviewers.Continue reading “2024 State-of-the-Art Small Spacecraft Technology Report is Released”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Introduction The 10th Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) Earth Polychromatic Camera (EPIC) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Advanced Radiometer [NISTAR] Science Team Meeting (STM) was held October 16–18, 2024. Over 50 scientists attended, most of whom were from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), with several participating from other NASA centers, U.S.Continue reading “Summary of the 10th DSCOVR EPIC and NISTAR Science Team Meeting”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY With a suite of NASA science and technology on board, Firefly Aerospace is targeting no earlier than 3:45 a.m. EST on Sunday, March 2, to land the Blue Ghost lunar lander on the Moon. Blue Ghost is slated to touch down near Mare Crisium, a plain in the northeast quadrantContinue reading “NASA Sets Coverage of Firefly’s First Robotic Commercial Moon Landing”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY On Tuesday, January 28th, Fairbanks BEST Homeschool joined the Geophysical Institute for an afternoon of rocket exploration, hands-on activities, and stargazing inside a planetarium. This event was free and open to the public. Despite their frigid winter weather, 200 attendees were curious about the scientific endeavors of Alaska-based researchers alongsideContinue reading “An Afternoon of Family Science and Rocket Exploration in Alaska”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This image, released on Feb. 12, 2025, is the deepest X-ray image ever made of the spectacular star forming region called 30 Doradus. By combining X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue and green) with optical data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (yellow) and radio data from the AtacamaContinue reading “A Stellar Bouquet”

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 regionContinue reading “Hubble Captures a Cosmic Cloudscape”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Earth planning date: Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025 I woke up this morning to my weather app telling me it felt like minus 15° C (5°F) outside. On days like this, it can take me a little longer to get myself up and out into the world. Curiosity has a similarContinue reading “Sols 4452-4453: Keeping Warm and Keeping Busy”