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Parker: The Solar System from Near the Sun

Photo of the Day If you watch long enough, a comet will appear. Before then, you will see our Solar System from inside the orbit of Mercury as recorded by NASA's Parker Solar Probe looping around the Sun. The video captures coronal streamers into the solar wind, a small Coronal Mass Ejection, and planets [...]

By |2025-03-31T09:09:11-04:00March 31st, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

A Partial Solar Eclipse over Iceland

Photo of the Day What if the Sun and Moon rose together? That happened yesterday over some northern parts of planet Earth as a partial solar eclipse occurred shortly after sunrise. Regions that experienced the Moon blocking part of the Sun included northeastern parts of North America and northwestern parts of Europe, Asia, and [...]

By |2025-03-30T09:09:10-04:00March 30th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for SpaceX Starship

NASA logo. NASA has awarded SpaceX of Starbase, Texas, a modification under the NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract to add Starship to their existing Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch service offerings. The NLS II contracts provide a broad range of commercial launch services for NASA’s planetary, Earth-observing, exploration, and scientific satellites. These high-priority, [...]

By |2025-03-28T17:26:00-04:00March 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Boosts Efficiency with Custom X-66 Flooring

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Eric Garza, an engineering technician in the Experimental Fabrication Shop at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, cuts plywood to size for temporary floorboards for the X-66 experimental demonstrator aircraft on Aug. 26, 2024.NASA/Steve Freeman NASA designed temporary floorboards for the MD-90 [...]

By |2025-03-28T17:00:00-04:00March 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Visiting Mars on the Way to the Outer Solar System

Explore This Section Perseverance Home Mission Overview Rover Components Mars Rock Samples Where is Perseverance? Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Mission Updates Science Overview Objectives Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Perseverance Raw Images Images Videos Audio More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter [...]

By |2025-03-28T14:23:00-04:00March 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Turning Vanes inside the Altitude Wind Tunnel

NASA Men stand in front of turning vanes inside the Altitude Wind Tunnel (AWT) at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory in this February 1944 publicity photo. The photo was taken just weeks after the tunnel became operational. The AWT was the only wind tunnel capable of testing full-size aircraft engines [...]

By |2025-03-28T12:51:00-04:00March 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Artemis Underway Recovery Test 12

Sergeant Huff of the 45 weather squadron deploys a weather balloon during Underway Recovery Test-12 onboard USS Somerset off the coast of California, Thursday, March 27, 2025. During the test, NASA and Department of Defense teams are practicing to ensure recovery procedures are validated as NASA plans to send Artemis II astronauts around the Moon [...]

Sols 4493-4494: Just Looking Around

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Mars Home 2 min [...]

By |2025-03-28T11:14:00-04:00March 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Employee Meets Success at NASA Stennis

Rebecca Mataya is a budget analyst at NASA’s Stennis Space Center. “Whether you are an engineer, analyst, lawyer, technician, communicator or innovator, there is a place for you here at NASA,” she said. “Every skill contributes to the greater mission of pushing the boundaries of exploration, discovery, and progress. If you have a passion, determination, [...]

By |2025-03-28T10:45:00-04:00March 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |
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