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Rings of Rock in the Sahara 

By |2025-11-28T00:01:00-05:00November 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

EO Science Earth Observatory Rings of Rock in the Sahara  Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day More Subscribe   September 13, 2025 In northeastern Africa, within the driest part of the Sahara, dark rocky outcrops rise above pale desert sands. Several of these formations, including Jabal Arakanū, display striking ring-shaped structures.   Jabal Arkanū [...]

NASA Astronaut Chris Williams, Crewmates Arrive at Space Station

By |2025-11-27T07:50:00-05:00November 27th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The Soyuz rocket launches to the International Space Station with Expedition 74 crew members: NASA astronaut Chris Williams, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev, on Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA astronaut Chris Williams, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev, safely arrived at the [...]

Cranberry Country, Wisconsin

By |2025-11-27T00:01:00-05:00November 27th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

EO Science Earth Observatory Cranberry Country, Wisconsin Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day More Subscribe   October 13, 2025 Known as America’s Dairyland, Wisconsin produces the most cheese of any state and trails only California in the production of milk. Less famously, the state outpaces all others in a key part of many Thanksgiving menus. Wisconsin is [...]

Globular Cluster M15 Deep Field

By |2025-11-26T15:44:29-05:00November 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Stars, like bees, swarm around the center of bright globular cluster M15. The central ball of over 100,000 stars is a relic from the early years of our Galaxy, and continues to orbit the Milky Way's center. M15, one of about 150 globular clusters remaining, is noted for being easily [...]

PLANETS Units Have Landed – Free NASA-Funded Out-of-School Time Resources

By |2025-11-26T13:18:00-05:00November 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Explore This Section Science Science Activation PLANETS Units Have Landed –… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science   4 min read PLANETS Units Have Landed – Free NASA-Funded Out-of-School Time Resources Constructing a three dimensional topographic map from the Remote Sensing Science Pathway. The NASA [...]

Artemis II Orion Spacecraft Stacked

By |2025-11-26T12:40:00-05:00November 26th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA/Kim Shiflett In this Oct. 20, 2025, photo, NASA’s Artemis II Orion spacecraft with its launch abort system is stacked atop the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Orion will carry NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space [...]

LSAH Newsletter

By |2025-11-25T16:20:00-05:00November 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Reid Wiseman finds a little peace and quiet in the station’s Destiny lab.NASA The Lifetime Surveillance of Astronaut Health (LSAH) program collects, analyzes, and interprets medical, physiological, hazard exposure, and environmental data for the purpose of maintaining astronaut health and safety as well as [...]

NASA & GLOBE Connect People, Land, and Space

By |2025-11-25T16:11:00-05:00November 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Explore This Section Science Science Activation NASA & GLOBE Connect People,… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science   4 min read NASA & GLOBE Connect People, Land, and Space The GLOBE Land Cover satellite comparison table is generated weekly for every GLOBE Land Cover observation. [...]

Comet Lemmon and the Milky Way

By |2025-11-25T15:44:24-05:00November 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What did Comet Lemmon look like when it was at its best? One example is pictured here, featuring three celestial spectacles all at different distances. The closest spectacle is the snowcapped Meili Mountains, part of the Himalayas in China. The middle marvel is Comet Lemmon near its picturesque best early [...]

NASA’s Roman Observatory Passes Spate of Key Tests

By |2025-11-25T14:26:00-05:00November 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA’s nearly complete Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has made another set of critical strides toward launch. This fall, the outer portion passed two tests — a shake test and an intense sound blast — to ensure its successful launch. The inner portion of the observatory underwent a major 65-day thermal vacuum test, showing [...]

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