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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…
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NASA’s Perseverance Team Assessing First Mars Sampling Attempt
The rover continues to explore Jezero Crater while the team assesses today’s activities.
Data sent to Earth by NASA’s…
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A Few Steps Closer to Europa: Spacecraft Hardware Makes Headway
Take a closer look at the complex choreography involved in building NASA’s Europa Clipper as the mission to explore Jupiter’s…
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NASA’s Juno Celebrates 10 Years With New Infrared View of Moon Ganymede
The spacecraft used its infrared instrument during recent flybys of Jupiter’s mammoth moon to create this latest map, which comes out a decade after Juno’s launch.
The science team for NASA’s Juno spacecraft has produced a new infrared map of the…
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My Favorite Martian Image: Helicopter Scouts Ridge Area for Perseverance
A member of the Perseverance rover’s science team explains why the aerial image offers science advantages over ground-level images.
Ask any space…
Job alert: ‘Spaceport Mixologist’
August 5, 2021
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is seeking a “Spaceport Mixologist” who can whip up space-themed drinks next to the company’s sprawling rocket factory in south Texas.
While space itself likely won’t be in their future, an experienced bartender — who will have one of the…
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Stars Are Exploding in Dusty Galaxies. We Just Can’t Always See Them
Exploding stars generate dramatic light shows. Infrared telescopes like Spitzer can see through the haze and to give a better idea of how often these explosions occur.
You’d think that supernovae – the death throes of massive stars and among the brightest, most powerful…
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NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland Mission Leaves for Its Last Field Trip
By dropping probes from a plane into the ocean, the pioneering campaign tracks how seawater is melting glaciers to give insight into the future of sea level rise.
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SpaceX’s Starlink mobile app got a refreshing upgrade this week that makes it easier to find clear patches of sky and monitor connection outages — and adds a new dark mode for its user interface. The app improvements came out yesterday as SpaceX reported 90,000 active…
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NASA Study Highlights Importance of Surface Shadows in Moon Water Puzzle
The shadows cast by the roughness of the Moon’s surface create small cold spots for water ice to accumulate even during the harsh lunar daytime.
Scientists are confident that water ice can be found at the Moon’s poles inside permanently shadowed…
