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Mars Perseverance Team Members to Be Recognized at Hispanic Heritage Awards
The three award recipients – Diana Trujillo, Christina Hernandez, and Clara O’Farrell – are engineers from the NASA rover team.
Three Latina engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California are the 2021 recipients of STEM Awards from the Hispanic…
NASA sets new date for James Webb Space Telescope launch
September 8, 2021
The James Webb Space Telescope, humanity’s next big space-bound eye on the cosmos, has a new launch date of December 18th, NASA announced on Wednesday. It’s the latest among dozens of other delays for a telescope that was originally planned to go to space as early as…
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NASA to Host Briefing on Successful Sample Collection of Martian Rock
Panelists will discuss the Perseverance rover’s successful collection of the sample and latest science analysis.
NASA will hold a virtual media briefing…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Collects First Mars Rock Sample
September 7, 2021
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Collects First Mars Rock Sample
The rock core is now enclosed in an airtight titanium sample tube, and will be available for retrieval in the future.
NASA’s Perseverance rover today completed the collection of the first sample of Martian rock, a core from Jezero Crater slightly thicker than…
Planetary Radar Observes 1,000th Near-Earth Asteroid Since 1968
September 4, 2021
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Planetary Radar Observes 1,000th Near-Earth Asteroid Since 1968
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Seven days after this historic milestone, a massive antenna at NASA’s Deep Space Network Goldstone complex imaged…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Successfully Cores Its First Rock
September 3, 2021
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Successfully Cores Its First Rock
Perseverance will obtain additional imagery of the sample tube before potentially completing the process of collecting its first…
Improving Food Security Through Capacity Building
September 2, 2021
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Improving Food Security Through Capacity Building
Millions of people suffer from food insecurity around the globe. With the help of Earth-observing satellites, the NASA-USAID SERVIR project is hoping to reduce that number.
Food security – the consistent availability and affordability of food – is a basic human need, yet it remains elusive for…
NASA’s Deep Space Network Looks to the Future
September 2, 2021
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NASA’s Deep Space Network Looks to the Future
The DSN is being upgraded to communicate with more spacecraft than ever before and to accommodate evolving mission needs.
When NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover touched down on…
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An Accidental Discovery Hints at a Hidden Population of Cosmic Objects
Brown dwarfs aren’t quite stars and aren’t quite planets, and a new study suggests there might be more of them lurking in our galaxy than scientists previously…
Six things we learned about the Dead Space remake
August 31, 2021
When EA announced it was remaking Dead Space, it wasn’t really clear what “remake” meant. Would the company be completely rebooting the beloved space horror series? Or would it be more like a remaster that upgraded the original’s 13-year-old graphics for the Xbox Series X, PlayStation 5, and modern PCs? Star Wars: Squadrons studio EA Motive offered a little bit more detail in interviews.
