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Fizzing Sodium Could Explain Asteroid Phaethon’s Cometlike Activity
Models and lab tests suggest the asteroid could be venting sodium vapor as it orbits close to the Sun, explaining its increase in brightness.
As a comet zooms through the inner solar system, the Sun heats it, causing ices below the surface to vaporize into space. The venting vapor…
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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Spots Perseverance From Above
Can you see NASA’s newest rover in this picture from Jezero Crater?
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter recently completed its 11th flight at the Red Planet…
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NASA Spacecraft Provides Insight into Asteroid Bennu’s Future Orbit
Along with collecting a sample from the Bennu’s surface, the spacecraft provided precision data to better predict the near-Earth object’s orbit around the Sun.
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Aviation Week Awards NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter With Laureate
The prestigious honor recognizes the pioneering rotorcraft for its history-making flights on the Red Planet.
The “little helicopter that could” has garnered attention, fans, and numerous accolades, with the latest coming from Aviation Week Network in the form of a 2021 Laureate…
Starship Technologies is expanding its footprint, deploying dozens of its pint-sized six-wheeled delivery robots on college campuses this fall.
Starship is adding four new schools to its operational domain: University of Illinois Chicago; University of Kentucky; University…
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NASA Invites Media to New OSIRIS-REx, Asteroid Bennu Study Briefing
The mission spent over two years with Bennu, gathering information about its size, shape, mass, and composition while monitoring its spin and orbital trajectory.
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JPL Director Michael Watkins to Return to Academia
August 10, 2021
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JPL Director Michael Watkins to Return to Academia
After having served five years as director of JPL, Michael Watkins will move to the Caltech campus as professor of aerospace and geophysics. Larry D. James becomes interim director of JPL.
JPL Director Michael Watkins announced Monday he will step down from his position as the director of the Jet…
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NASA, International Panel Provide a New Window on Rising Seas
A new online visualization tool will enable anyone to see what sea levels will look like anywhere in the world in the decades to come.
NASA’s Sea Level Change Team…
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NASA’s Perseverance Team Assessing First Mars Sampling Attempt
The rover continues to explore Jezero Crater while the team assesses today’s activities.
Data sent to Earth by NASA’s…
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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…
