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NASA Selects New Science Investigations for Future Moon Deliveries
The payloads, including one from JPL, mark the agency’s first selections from its Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon (PRISM) call for proposals.
As NASA continues plans for multiple commercial deliveries to the Moon’s surface per year, the agency has…
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Machine Learning Model Doubles Accuracy of Global Landslide ‘Nowcasts’
The upgraded interactive mapping tool can show you potential landslide activity anywhere between the poles in near-real-time.
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Then There Were 3: NASA to Collaborate on ESA’s New Venus Mission
As a key partner in the mission, NASA provides the synthetic aperture radar, called VenSAR, to make high-resolution measurements of the planet’s surface features.
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The team behind SpaceX’s growing satellite internet network Starlink is in talks with “several” airlines to beam internet to their airplanes, the project’s vice president said during a conference panel on Wednesday. Expanding Starlink from rural homes and onto airlines is an expected move for Elon Musk’s space company as it races to open the broadband network commercially later this…
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Begins Its First Science Campaign on Mars
The six-wheeled scientist is heading south to explore Jezero Crater’s lakebed in search of signs of ancient microbial life.
On June 1, NASA’s Perseverance…
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Local Lockdowns Brought Fast Global Ozone Reductions, NASA Finds
When lockdowns during the coronavirus pandemic cut local nitrogen oxide emissions, the effect on ozone pollution was global and unexpectedly rapid.
As the…
A controversial amendment pushed by Jeff Bezos’ space firm Blue Origin passed the Senate Wednesday night, inching closer to becoming law. Crammed inside a mammoth science and technology bill designed primarily to counter competition from China, the amendment would allow NASA to spend up to $10 billion on its embattled Moon lander program. Aside from countering China, it also marks the latest…
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See the First Images NASA’s Juno Took As It Sailed by Ganymede
The spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter’s largest moon than any other in more than two decades, offering dramatic glimpses of the icy orb.
The first two images from…
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NASA Map Gives Most Accurate Space-Based View of LA’s Carbon Dioxide
Such detailed maps could help policymakers choose the most effective ways of cutting carbon emissions.
Using data from NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory 3 (OCO-3)…
On Monday NASA’s Juno space probe, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, will get a close-up look at Jupiter’s biggest moon Ganymede, the agency said in a press release. It will be the closest NASA has gotten to the largest moon in the solar system for more than 20 years— Galileo cruised by Ganymede in 2000— coming within 645 miles of its surface. The information Juno gathers will…
