Telescopes designed to operate in space have to be constructed differently than those meant to operate on the ground. But what about telescopes that operate in between?
An upcoming NASA mission will use a balloon larger than a football field to send a telescope 130,000 feet (about 40,000 meters) above Antarctica. From that height, the telescope will study a phenomenon that chokes off star…
Not even Obi-Wan Kenobi could convince Perseverance’s Katie Stack Morgan that these are not the rocks she’s looking for.
Ask any space explorer, and they’ll have a favorite photograph or two from their mission. For Katie Stack Morgan, the deputy project scientist…
Help NASA Scientists Find Clouds on Mars
June 29, 2022
By identifying clouds in data collected by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the public can increase scientists’ understanding of the Red Planet’s atmosphere.
NASA scientists hope to solve a fundamental mystery about Mars’ atmosphere, and you can help.
A concept in development at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory would allow potential planetary missions to chase interesting clues in subsurface oceans.
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In the Sensing With Independent Micro-Swimmers (SWIM) concept, illustrated here, dozens of small robots would descend through the icy shell of a distant moon via a cryobot – depicted at left – to the ocean…
Early this morning, a small NASA spacecraft about the size of a microwave embarked on the beginning of a four-month-long journey to the Moon, where it will eventually insert itself into a unique, elongated lunar orbit that no NASA mission has visited before. The…
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NASA’s Curiosity Takes Inventory of Key Life Ingredient on Mars
Newly published research quantifies the presence of organic carbon in Martian rocks.
Scientists using data from NASA’s Curiosity rover measured the total organic carbon – a…
Starlink RV review: the dawn of space internet to go
June 25, 2022
The problem with going off-grid is the lack of connection.
The urge to get away from it all without losing access to Slack and Instagram was a #vanlife trend long before COVID-19. The pandemic only accelerated it, fueled by social distancing rules, office closures, and flexible remote work policies that enable more people to set up shop from any location they choose. Few do so, however, because…
.An independent assessment team will review possible options for next steps, including estimated costs.
NASA announced Friday the Psyche asteroid mission, the agency’s first mission designed to study a metal-rich asteroid, will not make its planned 2022 launch…
NASA to Discuss Psyche Asteroid Mission
June 24, 2022
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NASA to Discuss Psyche Asteroid Mission
The teleconference will be livestreamed today.
NASA will host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT (11 a.m. PDT) Friday to provide an update on the agency’s mission to study the Psyche asteroid.
The map, to be released in batches over six months, covers the vast majority of the planet, revealing dozens of minerals found on its surface.
Scientists are about to get a new look at Mars, thanks to a multicolored 5.6-gigapixel map. Covering 86% of the Red Planet’s surface, the map reveals the distribution of dozens of key minerals. By looking at mineral distribution, scientists can…
