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- NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Heads for Earth with Asteroid Sample Tue, 11 May 21, 7:00pmAfter nearly five years in space, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft is on its way back to Earth with an abundance of rocks and dust from...
- NASA’s Perseverance Captures Video, Audio of Fourth Ingenuity Flight Sat, 8 May 21, 7:00pm“This is a very good surprise,” said David Mimoun, a professor of planetary science at Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (ISAE-SUPAERO) in Toulouse, France, and science lead for the SuperCam Mars...
- First Aerial Color Image of Mars Sun, 25 Apr 21, 7:00pmThe winding parallel discolorations in the surface reveal the tread of the six-wheeled rover. Perseverance itself is located top center, just out frame. “Wright Brothers Field” is in the vicinity of the helicopter’s...
- NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Extracts First Oxygen from Red Planet Fri, 23 Apr 21, 3:00amThe growing list of “firsts” for Perseverance, NASA’s newest six-wheeled robot on the Martian surface, includes converting some of the Red Planet’s thin, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere into oxygen...
- Earth Day Connections: NASA Investigates Vegetation Tue, 20 Apr 21, 7:00pmSatellites can detect how “green” an area is – showing the health of plants that are growing in a particular site. While fires, deforestation and drought lead to the tropical Amazon being less green, warming temperatures...
- NASA’s New Horizons Reaches a Rare Space Milestone Sat, 17 Apr 21, 7:00pmNew Horizons is just the fifth spacecraft to reach this great distance, following the legendary Voyagers 1 and 2 and their predecessors, Pioneers 10 and 11...
- NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Leaves its Mark on Asteroid Bennu Fri, 16 Apr 21, 7:00pmWhere thrusters fired against the surface, substantial mass movement is apparent. Multiple sub-meter boulders were mobilized by the plumes into a campfire ring–like shape — similar to rings of boulders seen around small...
- NASA’s Mars Helicopter to Make First Flight Attempt Sunday Sun, 11 Apr 21, 3:00pmThe Mars Helicopter is a high-risk, high-reward technology demonstration. If Ingenuity were to encounter difficulties during its 30-sol (Martian day) mission, it would not impact the science gathering of NASA’s Perseverance...
- NASA’s NICER Finds X-ray Boosts in the Crab Pulsar’s Radio Bursts Fri, 9 Apr 21, 7:00pm“Out of more than 2,800 pulsars cataloged, the Crab pulsar is one of only a few that emit giant radio pulses, which occur sporadically and can be hundreds to thousands of times brighter than the regular pulses,” said...
- NASA Invites Public to Take Flight With Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Wed, 7 Apr 21, 7:00pmNASA is targeting no earlier than Sunday, April 11, for Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s first attempt at powered, controlled flight on another planet. To mark a month of Ingenuity flights, the agency will host several events...
- Major Earth Satellite to Track Disasters, Effects of Climate Change Thu, 25 Mar 21, 8:00pmBy tracking subtle changes in Earth’s surface, it will spot warning signs of imminent volcanic eruptions, help to monitor groundwater supplies, track the melt rate of ice sheets tied to sea level rise, and observe shifts...
- New Study Challenges Long-Held Theory of Fate of Mars’ Water Sat, 20 Mar 21, 8:00pmFrom NASA The new science results indicate that a large quantity of the Red Planet’s water is trapped in its crust rather than having escaped into space...
- NASA Joins White House National Climate Task Force Fri, 19 Mar 21, 4:00pmThe administration’s climate agenda outlines putting climate at the center of the country’s foreign policy and national security and encourages a governmentwide approach to climate change.
- Mars rover airless tires for your bike Fri, 19 Mar 21, 4:30amTang, memory foam, cordless tools, invisible dental braces — space research is a gift that keeps on giving. Now, the SMART Tire Company has unveiled a new eco-friendly consumer airless bicycle tire derived from space science...
- Serendipitous Juno Spacecraft Detections Shatter Ideas About Origin of Zodiacal Light Wed, 10 Mar 21, 9:00pmFrom NASA Look up to the night sky just before dawn, or after dusk, and you might see a faint column of light extending up from the horizon. That luminous…