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3-D Cilix Crater on Europa

By |2025-06-25T11:46:00-04:00June 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This SectionScienceEuropa Clipper3-D Cilix Crater on EuropaEuropa Clipper HomeMissionOverviewFactsHistoryTimelineScienceGoalsTeamSpacecraftMeet Europa ClipperInstruments Assembly Vault PlateMessage in a BottleNewsNews & FeaturesBlogNewsroomReplay the LaunchMultimediaFeatured MultimediaResourcesAbout EuropaWhy Europa?Europa Up CloseIngredients for LifeEvidence for an Ocean  This view of Cilix impact crater on Europa was created in 2013 using 3-D stereo images.NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cynthia Phillips Downloads View All Europa Resources May [...]

NASA to Welcome Fourth Private Astronaut Mission to Space Station

By |2025-06-25T03:11:00-04:00June 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying the Axiom Mission 4 crew launches atop the Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to the International Space Station.Credit: NASA As part of NASA’s efforts to expand access to space, four private astronauts are in orbit following the successful launch of the fourth all private astronaut mission to [...]

NASA Astronaut Zena Cardman

By |2025-06-24T13:08:00-04:00June 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA astronaut Zena Cardman inspects her spacesuit’s wrist mirror at the NASA Johnson Space Center photo studio on March 22, 2024.NASA/Josh Valcarcel NASA astronaut Zena Cardman [link to her bio] inspects her spacesuit’s wrist mirror in this portrait taken at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on March 22, 2024. Cardman will launch to the [...]

In the Center of Spiral Galaxy M61

By |2025-06-24T12:44:26-04:00June 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Is there a spiral galaxy in the center of this spiral galaxy? Sort of. Image data from the Hubble Space Telescope, the European Southern Observatory, and smaller telescopes on planet Earth are combined in this detailed portrait of face-on spiral galaxy Messier 61 (M61) and its bright center. A mere [...]

NICER Status Updates

By |2025-06-24T12:00:00-04:00June 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

June 24, 2025 NASA’s NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station, has paused observations due to a problem with one of the motors that drives its ability to track cosmic objects. The NICER team paused operations June 17 when performance degradation in the motor began affecting science observations. [...]

Live or Fly a Plane in California? Help NASA Measure Ozone Pollution!

By |2025-06-24T10:13:00-04:00June 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Ozone high in the stratosphere protects us from the Sun’s ultraviolet light. But ozone near the ground is a pollutant that harms people and plants. The San Joaquin Valley has some of the most polluted air in the country, and NASA scientists with the new Ozone Where We Live (OWWL) project are working to measure [...]

NASA’s SLS Solid Rocket Boosters: What is DM-1?

By |2025-06-23T15:09:00-04:00June 23rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Kevin O’Brien Demonstration Motor-1 (DM-1) is the first full-scale ground test of the evolved five-segment solid rocket motor of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket. The event will take place in Promontory, Utah, and will be used as an opportunity to test several upgrades made from the current solid rocket boosters. Each booster burns six [...]

Mission Accomplished! Artemis ROADS III National Challenge Competitors Celebrate their Achievements

By |2025-06-23T13:27:00-04:00June 23rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Science Artemis Mission Accomplished! Artemis… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science   5 min read Mission Accomplished! Artemis ROADS III National Challenge Competitors Celebrate their Achievements The NASA Science Activation program’s Northwest Earth and Space Sciences Pathways (NESSP) team has successfully concluded [...]

NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Starts Unpacking Boxwork Formations

By |2025-06-23T13:09:00-04:00June 23rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Drag your mouse or move your phone to pan around within this 360-degree view to explore the boxwork patterns on Mars that NASA’s Curiosity is investigating for the first time. The rover captured the 291 images that make up this mosaic between May 15 [...]

A Martian Volcano in the Mist

By |2025-06-23T12:54:00-04:00June 23rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Arsia Mons, one of the Red Planet’s largest volcanoes, peeks through a blanket of water ice clouds in this image captured by NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter on May 2, 2025. Odyssey used a camera called the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) to capture this view while studying the Martian atmosphere, which appears here [...]

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