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My Favorite Martian Image: Jezero Crater’s ‘Delta Scarp’
A Perseverance rover scientist’s favorite shot from the young Mars mission provides a new angle on an old and intriguing surface feature.
Ask any space explorer, and they’ll have a favorite image or two from their mission. For Apollo 8’s Bill Anders…
Twitter is opening applications for a limited test of its Super Follows and Ticketed Spaces features. US-based users can apply separately for each program through Twitter’s mobile app; Super Follows are restricted to iOS, while Ticketed Spaces are available on iOS and…
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NASA Balloon Detects California Earthquake – Next Stop, Venus?
The technique is being developed to detect venusquakes. A new study details how, in 2019, it made the first balloon-borne detection of a quake…
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Major Ocean-Observing Satellite Starts Providing Science Data
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, the latest spacecraft to monitor sea surface height, releases its first science measurements to users.
After six months of check-out and calibration in orbit, the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite will make its first two data streams available to the public…
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NASA’S Ingenuity Mission Honored by the Space Foundation
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The mission picked up the 2021 John L. “Jack” Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration for its history-making…
Blue Origin’s month-long auction for a trip to the edge of space with its billionaire founder Jeff Bezos ended on Saturday with a closing price of $28 million. The flight aboard New Shepard, slated for July 20th, will mark the company’s first mission flying humans, in…
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NASA Approves Asteroid Hunting Space Telescope to Continue Development
The infrared space telescope is designed to help advance NASA’s planetary defense efforts.
NASA has approved the Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope (NEO Surveyor) to move to the next phase of mission development after a successful mission review, authorizing the mission to…
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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…
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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.
On June 10, 2021, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced the selection of EnVision as its newest medium-class science…
