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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 moon Europa approaches its 2024 launch date.
The hardware that makes up NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is…
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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…
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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.
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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 coolest job titles — will be tapped to join the hundreds of employees working on SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket system in…
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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.
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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 users in its open “better than nothing” beta phase, which spans rural regions across 12 different countries so far.
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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…
The Government Accountability Office squashed Blue Origin’s protest over NASA’s decision to pick a single lunar lander contractor, the agency said Friday, also denying a similar protest from Dynetics. The GAO’s decision keeps Blue Origin’s rival, Elon Musk’s…
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ECOSTRESS Data Incorporated Into New Wildfire Response Tool
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The instrument on the International Space Station is uniquely positioned to provide wildfire responders with a high-resolution look at fire progression.
NASA’s ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS)…
