2 Min Read NASA’s Juno Peers Beneath Io’s Surface PIA26756 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/USGS Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal NASA’s Juno Peers Beneath… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads NASA’s Juno Peers Beneath Io’s Surface PNG (2.07 MB) Description This map represents data captured by the Microwave Radiometer (MWR) aboard NASA’s [...]

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) TThe north polar region of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io was captured by NASA’s Juno during the spacecraft’s 57th close pass of the gas giant on Dec. 30, 2023. Data from that flyby and one on Feb. 3, 2024, is helping scientists understand Io’s interior.Image [...]

Credit: NASA NASA is supporting the Genesis Mission, a national effort to drive the use of artificial intelligence in tackling complex scientific and engineering challenges to advance a new era of discovery. President Donald J. Trump issued the Executive Order “Launching the Genesis Mission” on Nov. 24, 2025, creating a national mission to leverage artificial [...]

2 Min Read NISAR’s L-Band Radar Reveals ‘Hummingbird’ in Antarctica PIA26617 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal NISAR’s L-Band Radar Reveals… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads NISAR’s L-Band Radar Reveals ‘Hummingbird’ in Antarctica PNG (43.77 MB) PIA26617 Figure A JPEG (29.10 MB) Description Data from the Earth-orbiting [...]

Main Figure A Scientists used data from the L-band radar aboard the U.S.-India Earth-orbiting NISAR satellite to produce this image of Nunatak Zaterjavshijsja, a mountaintop in East Antarctica, poking out amid a stream of ice flowing northeast to the ocean. NASA/JPL-Caltech The image shows Nunatak Zaterjavshijsja at center-left, surrounded by ice fractured with crevasses, [...]

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Scenes and sounds from the July 16 “Stars, Stripes, and Supernovas – Symphony Under the Stars” event at NASA Langley.NASA/Joe Atkinson NASA Langley’s “Stars, Stripes, and Supernovas – Symphony Under the Stars” event brought employees, families, and community members [...]

2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A collage of artist concepts highlighting the novel approaches proposed by the 2026 NIAC awardees for possible future missions.NASA/Left to Right: Keunhan Park, Michael Rubenstein, Austin Phoenix, Benjamin Schafer, A.C. Charania, Gilly Elor, Pablo Sobron, Marco Quadrelli, Daniel Drew, Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay, Jeff Nosanov, Anish Damodaran  Phase [...]

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Graphic depiction of the Stacked Solar Sails for Very High delta-V Missions concept.Benjamin Schafer Benjamin Schafer Rarified Technologies, Inc. We propose a new approach to atmospheric sensing at 30-100 km altitudes using photophoretically levitating tracers. These lightweight structures harness sunlight to remain suspended for up [...]

1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Graphic depiction of the Actively Steerable Femtosat Constellations concept.Michael Rubenstein Michael Rubenstein Northwestern University, Chicago We propose a mission to use ~10,000 actively steerable femtosats to map the ring composition, atmospheric composition and density, and the magnetic field distribution of Saturn. Conducting in-situ surveys [...]

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Graphic depiction of the PRAXIS concept.Marco Quadrelli Marco Quadrelli NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Humanity has never touched the particles of a planetary ring, but if we were able to get close enough and sample them, it will transform understanding of ring structure and origins for [...]