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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA announced the winners of the 30th Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) April 22, with Parish Episcopal School, from Dallas, winning first place in the high school division, and the University of Alabama in Huntsville, capturing the college/university title. The annual engineering competition – one of NASA’s longest standing challengesContinue reading “NASA Announces 30th Human Exploration Rover Challenge Winners”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY New space technology ideas emerge every day from innovators across the country, and NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program on Monday selected more than 100 projects for funding. This program offers small businesses in the United States early-stage funding and support to advance the agency’s goals of exploring theContinue reading “NASA Nurtures Promising Tech Ideas from Small Businesses”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This Jan. 30, 2012 image of Earth was created from photographs taken by the Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard the Suomi NPP satellite. Many features of North America and the Western Hemisphere are particularly visible. The composite was created from the data collected during four orbits of theContinue reading “Our Beautiful Water World”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY “Every time I help with visualizing [ocean] simulation data, I learn about an entirely new area of ocean or climate research, and I’m reminded of how vast and rich this area of research is. And…the real magic happens at the intersection and interaction of simulated and observed data. It isContinue reading “‘Vast and Rich:’ Studying the Ocean With NASA Computer Simulations”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The most surprising revelation from NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover — that methane is seeping from the surface of Gale Crater — has scientists scratching their heads. Living creatures produce most of the methane on Earth. But scientists haven’t found convincing signs of current or ancient life on Mars, and thusContinue reading “Why is Methane Seeping on Mars? NASA Scientists Have New Ideas”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA will provide live coverage, beginning at 10:30 a.m. EDT Thursday, April 25, as two Roscosmos cosmonauts conduct a spacewalk outside the International Space Station. The spacewalk is expected to begin at 10:55 a.m. and could last up to seven hours. NASA will stream the spacewalk on NASA+, NASA Television,Continue reading “NASA Sets Coverage of Roscosmos Spacewalk Outside Space Station”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Under NASA’s Artemis campaign, the agency and its partners will send large pieces of equipment to the lunar surface to enable long-term scientific exploration of the Moon for the benefit of all. NASA’s human landing system providers, SpaceX and Blue Origin, are beginning development of lunar landers for large cargoContinue reading “Work Underway on Large Cargo Landers for NASA’s Artemis Moon Missions”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA and Slovenia affirmed their cooperation in future space endeavors on Friday as Slovenia became the 39th country to sign the Artemis Accords. The signing certified Slovenia’s commitment to pursue safe and sustainable exploration of space for the benefit of humanity and took place during a U.S.-Slovenia strategic dialogue inContinue reading “Slovenia Signs Artemis Accords, Joins Pursuit of Safer Space”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Humans aren’t the only mammals working to mitigate the effects of climate change in the Western United States. People there are also enlisting the aid of nature’s most prolific engineers – beavers. Using NASA-provided grants, two open-source programs from Boise State University in Idaho and Utah State University in LoganContinue reading “NASA Data Helps Beavers Build Back Streams”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In this image released on March 9, 2024, the NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope gives us a more detailed view of a well-studied but still mysterious region, NGC 604. The most noticeable features are tendrils and clumps of emission that appear bright red, extending out fromContinue reading “Looking Beyond the Veil”