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Cookies, Cream, and Crumbling Cores

By |2025-02-17T15:28:00-05:00February 17th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Mars Home 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 Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Perseverance Home Mission Overview Rover Components Mars Rock Samples Where [...]

SpaceX Rocket Launch Plume over California

By |2025-02-17T08:09:08-05:00February 17th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What's happened to the sky? Last Monday, the photogenic launch plume from a SpaceX rocket launch created quite a spectacle over parts of southern California and Arizona. Looking at times like a giant space fish, the impressive rocket launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base near Lompoc, California, was so bright [...]

Sols 4454-4457: Getting Ready to Fill the Long Weekend with Science

By |2025-02-17T02:33:00-05:00February 17th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

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 2 min read Sols [...]

NASA Inspires High School Engineering Club

By |2025-02-14T15:47:00-05:00February 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The engineering club from Palmdale High School in Palmdale, California, visits NASA’s Armstrong Research Flight Center in Edwards, California. The students took a group photo in front of the historic X-1E aircraft on display at the center.NASA/Genaro Vavuris A group of enthusiastic high school [...]

2024 State-of-the-Art Small Spacecraft Technology Report is Released

By |2025-02-14T15:03:00-05:00February 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Credit: NASA NASA’s Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute (S3VI) is pleased to announce the official release of the highly anticipated 2024 State-of-the-Art Small Spacecraft Technology report. This significant accomplishment was made possible by the contributions of numerous dedicated people across NASA who graciously supported the preparation of the document as authors and reviewers. We also want [...]

Muscle Research, Blood Tests To Promote Healthy Crews End Week

By |2025-02-14T14:43:00-05:00February 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|

The sun rises above the Pacific Ocean revealing the terminator, the line between night and day on Earth, in this photograph from the Internaional Space Station as it orbited 259 miles above and about 500 miles north of Hawaii.NASA Muscle stimulation and blood tests topped the International Space Station research schedule on Friday helping doctors [...]

Summary of the 10th DSCOVR EPIC and NISTAR Science Team Meeting

By |2025-02-14T14:10:00-05:00February 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This SectionEarth HomeEarth Observer HomeEditor’s CornerFeature ArticlesMeeting SummariesNewsScience in the NewsCalendarsIn MemoriamMoreArchives 21 min read Summary of the 10th DSCOVR EPIC and NISTAR Science Team Meeting Introduction The 10th Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) Earth Polychromatic Camera (EPIC) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Advanced Radiometer [NISTAR] Science Team Meeting (STM) was held October 16–18, 2024. Over [...]

NASA Sets Coverage of Firefly’s First Robotic Commercial Moon Landing

By |2025-02-14T14:01:00-05:00February 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander captured a bright image of the Moon’s South Pole (on the far left) through the cameras on its top deck, while it travels to the Moon as part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign.Credits: Firefly Aerospace With a suite of NASA science and technology on [...]

An Afternoon of Family Science and Rocket Exploration in Alaska

By |2025-02-14T13:43:00-05:00February 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This SectionScienceScience ActivationAn Afternoon of Family Science…OverviewLearning ResourcesScience Activation TeamsSME MapOpportunitiesMoreScience Activation StoriesCitizen Science  2 min read An Afternoon of Family Science and Rocket Exploration in Alaska On Tuesday, January 28th, Fairbanks BEST Homeschool joined the Geophysical Institute for an afternoon of rocket exploration, hands-on activities, and stargazing inside a planetarium. This event was [...]

Blue Ghost Remains on Track, Lunar Orbit Insertion Burn Complete

By |2025-02-14T13:04:00-05:00February 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

After about a month in transit to the Moon, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander successfully completed a four-minute lunar orbit insertion burn Thursday – the longest and most challenging burn conducted to date by the lander’s main engine and reaction control system thrusters. Now that the lander is in lunar trajectory, over the next 16 [...]

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