August 2024

Glenn Research Center
AeroSpace Frontiers
General
NASA’s Glenn Research Center staff traveled across the Midwest to share the NASA mission with visitors at the National Cherry Festival in Traverse City, Michigan, June 26–29.
Posted August 13, 2024
Glenn Research Center
AeroSpace Frontiers
NASA’s Glenn Research Center has made contributions to nearly every NASA mission since the agency’s inception. These contributions go beyond science and engineering to include designing NASA’s iconic logo.
Posted August 13, 2024
AeroSpace Frontiers
Glenn Research Center
NASA Glenn Research Center’s Director Dr. Jimmy Kenyon threw out the first pitch that started the game between the Cleveland Guardians and San Francisco Giants on July 7. He was joined by Glenn’s Eva the Astronaut mascot, who had a ball hanging out with the Guardians’ Slider mascot during NASA Day at Progressive Field in […]
Posted August 13, 2024
Glenn Research Center
AeroSpace Frontiers
Over 4,300 visitors joined in the fun to commemorate the 65th birthday of NASA’s iconic logo on July 15 at Great Lakes Science Center (GLSC) in downtown Cleveland.  The birthday celebration featured a cake-cutting ceremony and special NASA activities throughout the day, including presentations from NASA’s Glenn Research Center photographers and vid
Posted August 13, 2024
Glenn Research Center
AeroSpace Frontiers
General
Cast and crew members from Back to the Future: The Musical learned how NASA is tackling challenges and preparing for future missions during a tour at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland on July 1.   The tour included stops at the Icing Research Tunnel (IRT), where technicians test the effects of icing conditions on aircraft, […]
Posted August 13, 2024
Astrophysics
Earth Science
Science Activation
Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO)
On May 30th, 2024, NASA and the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian announced the public release of “high-quality, near real-time air quality data” from NASA’s TEMPO (Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution) mission.
Posted August 13, 2024
Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL)
Biological & Physical Sciences
International Space Station (ISS)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Science & Research
Future space missions could use quantum technology to track water on Earth, explore the composition of moons and other planets, or probe mysterious cosmic phenomena. NASA’s Cold Atom Lab, a first-of-its-kind facility aboard the International Space Station, has taken another step toward revolutionizing how quantum science can be used in space.
Posted August 13, 2024
Johnson Space Center
International Space Station (ISS)
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
Researchers tested a treatment on cartilage and bone tissue cultures subjected to compressive impact injury and found differences in the metabolites and proteins released by cells in space and on Earth along with partial improvement in both gravity conditions.
Posted August 12, 2024
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Protostars
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a phenomenon for the very first time. The bright red streaks at top left of this June 20, 2024, image are aligned protostar outflows – jets of gas from newborn stars that all slant in the same direction. This image supports astronomers’ assumption that as clouds collapse to […]
Posted August 12, 2024
Blogs
Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 9, 2024 The focus for this three-sol weekend plan is delivering a portion of the Kings Canyon drill sample to SAM for Evolved Gas Analysis (EGA), following on from a successful CheMin analysis. The CheMin and SAM analyses, coupled with APXS and ChemCam analyses, will tell us about the composition […]
Posted August 12, 2024
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