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NASA, USGS Scientists Go Rock Hounding in California’s High Desert

By |2026-06-11T11:38:00-04:00June 11th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Geologists recently converged on a site near Barstow, California, to ground-truth a mineral discovery made on public land by a NASA JPL sensor flying aboard a plane overhead.NASA/JPL-Caltech Equipped with rock picks and hand lenses, a team of geoscientists deployed to the Mojave Desert recently to investigate a tantalizing “fingerprint” detected by a NASA sensor. [...]

NASA to Preview Katalyst Mission to Boost Swift Spacecraft’s Orbit

By |2026-06-11T09:58:00-04:00June 11th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Katalyst Space’s LINK robotic servicing satellite awaits encapsulation inside a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL on June 8, 2026, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The rocket will carry LINK to space for an attempted orbital boost of NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory.Credit: NASA/Ron Beard NASA will host an audio-only media teleconference at 11 a.m. [...]

Curiosity Blog: Sols 4913-4919: Planetary explorers, freewheeling to the Yardang unit!

By |2026-06-10T17:23:00-04:00June 10th, 2026|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 Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Mars Home 3 min read Curiosity Blog: Sols [...]

NASA Equips Astronauts, Industry with Robotic Intelligence 

By |2026-06-10T13:00:00-04:00June 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) In the Integrated Mobile Evaluation Testbed for Robotics Operations facility at Johnson Space Center, PickNik robotic control software proved its prowess in tasks like passing cargo transfer bags through a hatch and placing them in storage bins, in anticipation of work NASA would like [...]

Train Ride to NASA Kennedy for Artemis III Booster Segments

By |2026-06-10T12:05:00-04:00June 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Brandon Hancock The final booster motor segments for NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket that will help propel Artemis III astronauts on their journey to space shipped from Northrop Grumman’s Railyard Shipping Facility in Corinne, Utah on June 2. The eight booster motor segments are on their way to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida [...]

Jim Irons, Former Landsat Project Scientist, Wins Pecora Award

By |2026-06-10T10:00:00-04:00June 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Landsat Navigation Landsat Home Missions Landsat 10 Landsat 9 Landsat 8 Landsat 7 Landsat 6 Landsat 5 Landsat 4 Landsat 3 Landsat 2 Landsat 1 News Latest News People of Landsat Q&As Newsletter Publications Data Overview Cal/Val Open Data Benefits Overview Agriculture & Food Security Disaster Management Ecosystems & Biodiversity Energy Resources Forest Management [...]

NASA Webb Finds Strongest Evidence Yet for ‘Black Hole Stars’

By |2026-06-10T10:00:00-04:00June 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore Webb Science James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NASA Webb Finds Strongest… Webb News Latest News Latest Images Webb’s Blog Awards X (offsite – login reqd) Instagram (offsite – login reqd) Facebook (offsite- login reqd) Youtube (offsite) Overview About Who is James Webb? Fact Sheet Impacts+Benefits FAQ Webb Timeline Science Overview and Goals Early [...]

GLOBE Mission Earth Educators Participate in Land Cover Community of Practice

By |2026-06-10T08:43:00-04:00June 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Science Science Activation GLOBE Mission Earth Educators… Overview Resources Opportunities Citizen Science Highlights About Science Activation   3 min read GLOBE Mission Earth Educators Participate in Land Cover Community of Practice During the 2025-2026 school year, educators from the NASA Science Activation Program’s GLOBE (Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the [...]

NASA’s CloudCube Pioneers Miniaturized Radar to Study Clouds, Precipitation

By |2026-06-10T08:00:00-04:00June 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

A compact, multifrequency radar built by a team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will make it easier to collect information about dynamic cloud systems. Called CloudCube, this new instrument simultaneously probes the atmosphere with three radar signals, spanning 36 to 240 GHz, for optimized sensitivity to a wide range of water droplet and ice particle sizes.  Figure 1: A prototype of CloudCube’s G-band channel [...]

La NASA avanza hacia la misión Artemis III en 2027 y anuncia a su tripulación

By |2026-06-09T12:19:00-04:00June 9th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

La tripulación de Artemis III posa para una foto oficial en sus trajes espaciales naranjas (de izquierda a derecha: Andre Douglas, Luca Parmitano, Randy Bresnik y Frank Rubio). Crédito: NASA/Bill Stafford Read this release in English here. La NASA dio el martes otro paso hacia una de las misiones tripuladas más complejas de la historia [...]

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