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Harnessing the 2024 Eclipse for Ionospheric Discovery with HamSCI

By |2024-04-04T11:00:00-04:00April 4th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 min read Harnessing the 2024 Eclipse for Ionospheric Discovery with HamSCI As the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, draws closer, a vibrant community of enthusiastic amateur radio operators, known as “hams,” is gearing up for an exciting project with the Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (HamSCI) group. Our goal is clear [...]

How NASA’s Roman Telescope Will Measure Ages of Stars

By |2024-04-04T10:00:00-04:00April 4th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

Guessing your age might be a popular carnival game, but for astronomers it’s a real challenge to determine the ages of stars. Once a star like our Sun has settled into steady nuclear fusion, or the mature phase of its life, it changes little for billions of years. One exception to that rule is the [...]

NASA Achieves Milestone for Engines to Power Future Artemis Missions

By |2024-04-04T09:59:00-04:00April 4th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA conducted a full-duration RS-25 hot fire April 3 on the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, achieving a major milestone for future Artemis flights of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket. It marked the final [...]

Eclipses Near and Far

By |2024-04-04T08:39:00-04:00April 4th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

On April 8, 2024, North America will witness its last total solar eclipse for more than twenty years. Other parts of the world will experience the rare celestial event in the coming decade. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes directly between the Sun and the Earth, blocking its disk from view but [...]

The Marshall Star for April 3, 2024

By |2024-04-03T16:14:00-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

23 Min Read The Marshall Star for April 3, 2024 Huntsville, Marshall Preparing to Celebrate Total Solar Eclipse By Celine Smith On April 8 between 1 and 3 p.m., the Moon will pass between the Sun and Earth to create a total solar eclipse for 15 states. While Alabama will experience a partial eclipse, [...]

NASA Selects Companies to Advance Moon Mobility for Artemis Missions

By |2024-04-03T16:06:00-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

An artist’s concept design of NASA’s Lunar Terrain Vehicle.NASA NASA has selected Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost, and Venturi Astrolab to advance capabilities for a lunar terrain vehicle (LTV) that Artemis astronauts will use to travel around the lunar surface, conducting scientific research during the agency’s Artemis campaign at the Moon and preparing for human missions to [...]

Scientists Pursue the Total Solar Eclipse with NASA Jet Planes

By |2024-04-03T14:30:00-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

5 min read Scientists Pursue the Total Solar Eclipse with NASA Jet Planes The April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse will produce stunning views across North America. While anyone along the eclipse path with a clear sky will see the spectacular event, the best view might be 50,000 feet in the air, aboard NASA’s WB-57 [...]

Carving a Path

By |2024-04-03T14:25:00-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA/Woody Hoburg These aren’t highways in this picture taken on Aug. 15, 2023; they’re paths carved by glaciers as they move through the Karakoram mountain range north of the Himalayas. Crew aboard the International Space Station take photos of Earth, recording how the planet changes over time due to human activity and natural events. This [...]

NASA Receives 13 Nominations for the 28th Annual Webby Awards

By |2024-04-03T12:44:00-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Since it began in 1958, NASA has been charged by law with spreading the word about its work “to the widest extent practicable.” From typewritten press releases to analog photos and film, NASA has effectively moved into social media and other online communications. NASA’s [...]

Rock Sampled by NASA’s Perseverance Embodies Why Rover Came to Mars

By |2024-04-03T11:55:00-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

The 21st rock core captured by NASA’s Perseverance has a composition that would make it good at trapping and preserving signs of microbial life, if any was once present. The sample – shown being taken here – was cored from “Bunsen Peak” on March 11, the 1,088th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.NASA/JPL-Caltech The [...]

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