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NASA Awards Innovative Concept Studies for Science, Exploration

Technology in development today could radically change the future of air and space exploration. Nearly silent electric aircraft could ferry people and packages around cities, a sprawling radio telescope array on the far side of the Moon could reveal new secrets about the universe, and astronauts on long-duration missions could grow their own medicines to protect their health. These concepts are…
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New Interactive Mosaic Uses NASA Imagery to Show Mars in Vivid Detail

Cliffsides, impact craters, and dust devil tracks are captured in mesmerizing detail in a new mosaic of the Red Planet composed of 110,000 images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). Taken by the veteran spacecraft’s black-and-white Context Camera, or CTX, the images cover nearly 270 square feet (25 square meters) of surface per pixel. That makes the Global CTX Mosaic of Mars the…
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Free Tickets to ‘Explore JPL’ Available Online Soon

For decades, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California has invited the public to its campus at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains to go “behind the scenes” and see the latest technologies and space missions studying Earth, our solar system, and…
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Joint NASA, CNES Water-Tracking Satellite Reveals First Stunning Views

Loading Image Comparison… Sea level data gathered Jan. 21 in the Gulf Stream by SWOT’s KaRIn instrument, visualized at left, has 10 times the spatial resolution of data taken over the same area by altimeters on seven other satellites, visualized at right. Red represents sea levels higher than the global average, while blue is lower. Credit: left: NASA/JPL-Caltech; right…
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NASA’s Webb Spots Swirling, Gritty Clouds on Remote Planet

Researchers observing with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have pinpointed silicate cloud features in a distant planet’s atmosphere. The atmosphere is constantly rising, mixing, and moving during its 22-hour day, bringing hotter material up and pushing colder material…
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L.A. Youth Robotics Competition Leaves Student Teams Energized

After two days of fast-paced competition complete with team uniforms, cheerleaders, pounding music, and blaring horns, multiple teams of high schoolers came out victorious at the 23rd annual FIRST Robotics Competition Los Angeles Regional over the weekend. Next, they’ll be…
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NASA Uses 30-Year Satellite Record to Track and Project Rising Seas

The average global sea level rose by 0.11 inches (0.27 centimeters) from 2021 to 2022, according to a NASA analysis of satellite data. That’s the equivalent of adding water from a million Olympic-size swimming pools to the ocean every day for a year, and is part of a multidecade trend of rising seas. Since satellites began observing sea surface height in 1993 with the U.S.-French TOPEX/Poseidon…
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