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Satellites Show How Earth’s Water Cycle Is Ramping Up as Climate Warms
NASA scientists have studied 17 years of gravity observations of our planet to understand how the global water cycle is changing.
The rate at which plants and the land surface release moisture into the air has increased on a global scale between 2003 and 2019. These processes are…
You’ll be able to join Twitter’s Clubhouse-like Spaces from desktop and mobile web browsers starting Wednesday, the company announced, making the company’s social audio rooms much more widely accessible. Previously, you could only join Spaces from Twitter’s iOS and…
Elon Musk’s Boring Company started shuttling passengers through the twin tunnels it built underneath the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) this week, as part of a test to get the system ready for its full debut in June.
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Europa’s Interior May Be Hot Enough to Fuel Seafloor Volcanoes
Jupiter’s moon Europa has an icy crust covering a vast, global ocean. The rocky layer underneath may be hot enough to melt, leading to undersea volcanoes.
New research and computer modeling show that volcanic activity may have occurred on the seafloor of Jupiter’s moon Europa in the…
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NASA Wins 3 2021 Webby Awards, 2 People’s Voice Honors
NASA-JPL web experiences are among NASA’s winners at the 2021 Webby awards, which recognize excellence on the internet.
NASA received three Webby Awards and was…
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Salts Could Be Important Piece of Martian Organic Puzzle, NASA Scientists Find
A NASA team has found that organic, or carbon-containing, salts are likely present on Mars, with implications for the Red Planet’s…
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In a First, Scientists Map Particle-Laden Rivers in the Sky
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Windy regions high in the atmosphere can transport pollutants like dust or soot thousands of miles around the world and disrupt everyday life for thousands of people.
Last summer, “Godzilla” came for the Caribbean and the U.S. Gulf…
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Robotic Navigation Tech Will Explore the Deep Ocean
Terrain-relative navigation helped Perseverance land – and Ingenuity fly – autonomously on Mars. Now it’s time to test a similar system while exploring another…
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NASA Sets Briefing to Discuss Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Next Steps
Editor’s note: The briefing scheduled for Friday, April 30, to discuss next steps for the helicopter has moved to a new time, 11:30 a.m. EDT (8:30 a.m. PDT).
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As a politician, space was Bill Nelson’s thing. He started out as a state lawmaker near Florida’s Space Coast, ascended to Congress in 1978, then became the House’s first sitting member to actually go to space in 1986, flying as a payload specialist aboard Space Shuttle Columbia. He’d spend three terms in the Senate shaping NASA’s budget and helping steer, from the policy side, NASA’s…
