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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Earth’s average surface temperature in 2024 was the warmest on record, according to an analysis led by NASA scientists. Global temperatures in 2024 were 2.30 degrees Fahrenheit (1.28 degrees Celsius) above the agency’s 20th-century baseline (1951-1980), which tops the record set in 2023. The new record comes after 15 consecutiveContinue reading “Temperatures Rising: NASA Confirms 2024 Warmest Year on Record”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY LMS instrument aboard the Blue Ghost Lander heading to Mare Crisium in mid-January As part of its Artemis campaign, NASA is developing a series of increasingly complex lunar deliveries and missions to ultimately build a sustained human presence at the Moon for decades to come. Through the agency’s CLPS (CommercialContinue reading “NASA Instrument on Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lander to Study Lunar Interior”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Students from the Toms River School District in New Jersey will have the chance to connect with NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Butch Wilmore as they answer  prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) related questions from aboard the International Space Station. Watch the 20-minute space-to-Earth call in collaboration withContinue reading “New Jersey Students to Hear from NASA Astronauts Aboard Space Station”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a tiny patch of sky in the constellation Hydra. The stars and galaxies depicted here span a mind-bending range of distances. The objects in this image that are nearest to us are stars within our own Milky Way galaxy. You can easily spotContinue reading “Hubble Rings In the New Year”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Introduction The 2024 NASA Land-Cover and Land-Use Change (LCLUC) Science Team Meeting (STM) took place from April 2–4, 2024 at the Marriott Washingtonian Center in Gaithersburg, MD. During the meeting, 75 people attended in-person. Represented among the attendees were LCLUC project investigators and collaborators, NASA Headquarters (HQ) program managers, andContinue reading “Summary of the 2024 NASA LCLUC Science Team Meeting”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY On Jan. 9, 1990, space shuttle Columbia took off on its ninth flight, STS-32, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Its five-person crew of Commander Daniel Brandenstein, Pilot James Wetherbee, and Mission Specialists Bonnie Dunbar, Marsha Ivins, and David Low flew a then record-breaking 11-day mission to deployContinue reading “35 Years Ago: STS-32 Returns the Long Duration Exposure Facility”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY What do the X-15 and the space shuttles have in common? Information from the rocket plane and the spacecraft, as well as many experimental aircraft, were tracked from a pedestal and telemetry dish during key eras in flight history at or near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California.Continue reading “Helicopter Removes Artifact from NASA Armstrong Rooftop”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY One of the most challenging tasks in remote sensing from space is achieving required instrument calibration accuracy on-orbit. The Moon is considered to be an excellent exoatmospheric calibration source. However, the current accuracy of the Moon as an absolute reference is limited to 5 – 10%, and this level ofContinue reading “Achieving Instrument High Accuracy In-Orbit”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The future of research and technology at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida is expanding Wednesday, as Kennedy’s center director and charter members in the Florida University Space Research Consortium signed a memorandum of understanding in research and development to assist with missions and contribute to NASA’s Moon to MarsContinue reading “NASA’s Kennedy Marks New Chapter for Florida Space Industry”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A look back at a few Mars 2020 mission highlights of 2024   Perseverance’s past year operating on the surface of Mars was filled with some of the mission’s highest highs, but also some of its greatest challenges. True to its name and its reputation as a mission that overcomesContinue reading “A Rover Retrospective: Turning Trials to Triumphs in 2024”