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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY After months of driving, Perseverance has finally arrived at ‘Bright Angel’, discovering oddly textured rock unlike any the rover has seen before.

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Earth planning date: Friday, June 14, 2024 At the start of this week, we did a preload test on the target “Mammoth Lakes,” the rightmost bright ellipse (DRT ellipse, so less dusty) on the workspace image above. The preload test shows the stability of the rock, making sure it doesn’tContinue reading “Sols 4216-4218: Another ‘Mammoth’ Plan!”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA has awarded a contract to Vertex Aerospace, LLC of Madison, Mississippi, for labor support to ensure continuing safe operations of the Sonny Carter Training Facility at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory Operations Contract II has a two-year base period that begins Oct. 1, followedContinue reading “NASA Awards Contract for Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory Operations”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Maya FarrHenderson’s first day at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston involved the usual new hire setup and training tasks, but also something special: A tour of the CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog) and HERA (Human Exploration Research Analog) habitats. “It was such a thrill to start myContinue reading “Johnson Celebrates LGBTQI+ Pride Month: Meet Maya FarrHenderson”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Several hundred new faces walked through the gates of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for the first time on June 3. Who is this small army of motivated space-enthusiasts? It’s Goddard’s 2024 summer intern cohort. Across Goddard’s campuses, more than 300 on-site and virtual interns spend theContinue reading “NASA Interns Blast Off for Their First Week at Goddard “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Record snowfall in recent years has not been enough to offset long-term drying conditions and increasing groundwater demands in the U.S. Southwest, according to a new analysis of NASA satellite data. Declining water levels in the Great Salt Lake and Lake Mead have been testaments to a megadrought afflicting westernContinue reading “NASA Satellites Find Snow Didn’t Offset Southwest US Groundwater Loss”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The school year has come to an end, and those long summer days are stretching ahead like an open runway. Parents and educators often worry about the “summer slide,” the concept that students may lose academic ground while out of school. But summer doesn’t mean students’ imaginations have to stayContinue reading “Slow Your Student’s ‘Summer Slide’ and Beat Boredom With NASA STEM”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY New data revises our view of this unusual supernova explosion. A team of scientists used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to parse the composition of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus. With the telescope’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) and NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), theContinue reading “Investigating the Origins of the Crab Nebula With NASA’s Webb”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA and its international partners are using the same generically shaped wing design to create physical and digital research models to better understand how air moves around an aircraft during takeoff and landing. Various organizations are doing computer modeling with computational tools and conducting wind tunnel tests using the sameContinue reading “Globetrotting NASA Research Model Increases Accuracy”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Over 1,000 students from across the U.S. and Puerto Rico launched high-powered, amateur rockets on April 13, just north of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, as part of the agency’s annual Student Launch competition. Teams of middle school, high school, college, and university students were tasked toContinue reading “NASA Announces Winners of 2024 Student Launch Competition”