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NASA Embraces Sweden as Newest Member of Artemis Accords Family

By |2024-04-16T13:06:00-04:00April 16th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Minister for Education Mats Persson and U.S. Ambassador Erik D. Ramanathan shake hands after the signing ceremony.Credit: Margareta Stridh/Regeringskansliet On Tuesday, April 16, NASA welcomed Sweden as the 38th country to sign the Artemis Accords and commit to peaceful and safe space exploration. Minister for Education Dr. Mats Persson signed the accords on behalf of [...]

SC Division Awards & Recognition

By |2024-04-16T12:53:00-04:00April 16th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Space Biosciences Staff Awards NASA Honor Award Recipients Distinguished Service Medal James Connolly (2013) Early Career Achievement Medal Nicole A. Rayl (2012) David J. Smith (2016) Jonathan M. Galazka (2017) Equal Employment Opportunity Medal Dana G. Bolles (2014) Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal David L. Pletcher (2015) Exceptional Achievement Medal Janet E. Beegle (2015) Exceptional [...]

NASA Open Science Initiative Expands OpenET Across Amazon Basin  

By |2024-04-16T12:27:00-04:00April 16th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

An image of croplands in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; an area the Large-Scale Hydrology Research Group hosted at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil expects could benefit from the OpenET-Brazil tool that aims to provide data about water consumption and evapotranspiration at the field scale.Federal University of Rio Grande do [...]

NASA’s Fermi Mission Sees No Gamma Rays from Nearby Supernova

By |2024-04-16T12:00:00-04:00April 16th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read NASA’s Fermi Mission Sees No Gamma Rays from Nearby Supernova A nearby supernova in 2023 offered astrophysicists an excellent opportunity to test ideas about how these types of explosions boost particles, called cosmic rays, to near light-speed. But surprisingly, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected none of the high-energy gamma-ray light [...]

NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Begins Stacking Operations

By |2024-04-16T11:39:00-04:00April 16th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, set to carry NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station, passes in front of the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett NASA teams joined Boeing on [...]

NASA Refines National Space Technology Development Priorities

By |2024-04-16T10:02:00-04:00April 16th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) As NASA focuses on exploring the Moon, Mars, and the solar system for the benefit of humanity, the agency’s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) is shifting how it prioritizes technology development. As part of this refinement effort, NASA is asking the American aerospace community [...]

A Solar Neighborhood Census, Thanks to NASA Citizen Science

By |2024-04-16T09:09:00-04:00April 16th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read A Solar Neighborhood Census, Thanks to NASA Citizen Science This artist’s concept by citizen scientist William Pendrill shows, at left, a cool brown dwarf called a T Dwarf, and, at right, a warmer brown dwarf passing in front of a distant star. Pendrill, also an illustrator, participates in Backyard Worlds: Planet [...]

The next full Moon is the Pink Moon, Sprouting Grass Moon, Egg Moon, Fish Moon, the Pesach or Passover Moon

By |2024-04-15T17:38:00-04:00April 15th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

19 min read The next full Moon is the Pink Moon, Sprouting Grass Moon, Egg Moon, Fish Moon, the Pesach or Passover Moon The next full Moon is the Pink Moon, Sprouting Grass Moon, Egg Moon, Fish Moon, the Pesach or Passover Moon, the Hanuman Jayanti Festival Moon, and Bak Poya.  The next full [...]

SWOT Satellite Helps Gauge the Depth of Death Valley’s Temporary Lake

By |2024-04-15T15:05:00-04:00April 15th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Water depths in Death Valley’s temporary lake ranged between about 3 feet (or 1 meter, shown in dark blue) to less than 1.5 feet (0.5 meters, light yellow) from February through early March. By measuring water levels from space, SWOT enabled research to calculate the depth.NASA/JPL-Caltech Data from the international Surface Water and Ocean Topography [...]

Seeing the Solar Eclipse from 223,000 Miles Away

By |2024-04-15T14:48:00-04:00April 15th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

This spectacular image showing the Moon’s shadow on Earth’s surface was acquired during a 20-second period starting at 2:59 p.m. EDT (18:59:19 UTC) on April 8, 2024, by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured the April 8, 2024, solar eclipse from hundreds of thousands of miles away. The camera [...]

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