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NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Explores a Changing Landscape

August 18, 2021

. NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Explores a Changing Landscape A new video rings in the rover’s ninth year on Mars, letting viewers tour Curiosity’s location on a Martian mountain. Images of knobbly rocks and rounded hills are delighting scientists as NASA’s Curiosity rover climbs Mount Sharp, a 5-mile-tall (8-kilometer-tall) mountain within the…

Astronomers Find a ‘Break’ in One of the Milky Way’s Spiral Arms

August 17, 2021

. Astronomers Find a ‘Break’ in One of the Milky Way’s Spiral Arms The newly discovered feature offers insight into the large-scale structure of our galaxy, which is difficult to study from Earth’s position…

Fizzing Sodium Could Explain Asteroid Phaethon’s Cometlike Activity

August 17, 2021

. Fizzing Sodium Could Explain Asteroid Phaethon’s Cometlike Activity Models and lab tests suggest the asteroid could be venting sodium vapor as it orbits close to the Sun, explaining its increase in brightness. As a comet zooms…

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Spots Perseverance From Above

August 12, 2021

. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Spots Perseverance From Above Can you see NASA’s newest rover in this picture from Jezero Crater? NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter recently completed its 11th flight at the Red Planet, snapping multiple photographs during its trip. Along with capturing the boulders, sand dunes, and rocky outcrops prevalent in the…

NASA Spacecraft Provides Insight into Asteroid Bennu’s Future Orbit

August 12, 2021

. NASA Spacecraft Provides Insight into Asteroid Bennu’s Future Orbit Along with collecting a sample from the Bennu’s surface, the spacecraft provided precision data to better predict the near-Earth object’s orbit around the Sun. …

Aviation Week Awards NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter With Laureate

August 11, 2021

. Aviation Week Awards NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter With Laureate The prestigious honor recognizes the pioneering rotorcraft for its history-making flights on the Red Planet. The “little helicopter that could” has…

Starship Technologies’ delivery robots are coming to more college campuses this fall

August 10, 2021

Starship Technologies is expanding its footprint, deploying dozens of its pint-sized six-wheeled delivery robots on college campuses this fall. Starship is adding four new schools to its operational domain: University of Illinois Chicago; University of Kentucky; University of Nevada, Reno; and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Daytona Beach, Florida, campus. The company, which originated…

NASA Invites Media to New OSIRIS-REx, Asteroid Bennu Study Briefing

August 10, 2021

. NASA Invites Media to New OSIRIS-REx, Asteroid Bennu Study Briefing The mission spent over two years with Bennu, gathering information about its size, shape, mass, and composition while monitoring its spin and orbital trajectory. …

JPL Director Michael Watkins to Return to Academia

August 10, 2021

. JPL Director Michael Watkins to Return to Academia After having served five years as director of JPL, Michael Watkins will move to the Caltech campus as professor of aerospace and geophysics. Larry D. James becomes interim director of JPL. …

NASA, International Panel Provide a New Window on Rising Seas

August 10, 2021

. NASA, International Panel Provide a New Window on Rising Seas A new online visualization tool will enable anyone to see what sea levels will look like anywhere in the world in the decades to come. NASA’s Sea Level Change Team has created a sea level projection tool that makes extensive data on future sea level rise from the Intergovernmental Panel on…