October 2024

Earth
Carbon Cycle
Climate Change
Greenhouse Gases
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Earth’s far northern reaches have locked carbon underground for millennia. New research paints a picture of a landscape in change. A new study, co-authored by NASA scientists, details where and how greenhouse gases are escaping from the Earth’s vast northern permafrost region as the Arctic warms.
Posted October 29, 2024
General
Diversity at NASA
Glenn Research Center
Life at NASA
Kathy Clark started her career at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland straight out of high school, and when offered either a job as an accountant or a job in training, the choice was crystal clear. “I started in training, I’ve stayed in training, and I’ll probably retire in training,” said Clark, now a human […]
Posted October 29, 2024
Office of Small Business Programs (OSBP)
NASA Headquarters
In an effort to grow new commercial markets that support the future of space exploration, scientific discovery, and aeronautics research, NASA is preparing to relaunch its Mentor-Protégé Program for contractors on Friday, Nov. 1.
Posted October 29, 2024
Earth Science
Earth Science Technology Office
Science-enabling Technology
Technology Highlights
Summer heat has significant effects in the mountainous regions of the western United States. Melted snow washes from snowy peaks into the rivers, reservoirs, and streams that supply millions of Americans with freshwater—as much as 75% of the annual freshwater supply for some states.
Posted October 29, 2024
Gateway Space Station
Artemis
Earth's Moon
Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
Gateway Program
Humans in Space
Johnson Space Center
Science & Research
Gateway is set to advance science in deep space, bringing groundbreaking research opportunities to lunar orbit.
Posted October 29, 2024
Blogs
Earth planning date: Friday, Oct. 25, 2024 The changes to the plan Wednesday, moving the drive a sol earlier, meant that we started off planning this morning about 18 meters (about 59 feet) farther along the western edge of Gediz Vallis and with all the data we needed for planning. This included the knowledge that […]
Posted October 29, 2024
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Marshall Astrophysics
Marshall Space Flight Center
Spitzer Space Telescope
Star Clusters
Stars
Most stars form in collections, called clusters or associations, that include very massive stars. These giant stars send out large amounts of high-energy radiation, which can disrupt relatively fragile disks of dust and gas that are in the process of coalescing to form new planets. A team of astronomers used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, in […]
Posted October 28, 2024
Citizen Science
Opportunities For Students to Get Involved
Plant Biology
Science Activation
Vegetable Production System (VEGGIE)
Since 2015, students from across the USA have been partnering with scientists at NASA to advance research on growing plants in space, ultimately to feed astronauts on long-distance space missions, as part of Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden’s Growing Beyond Earth project, which is now in its 9th year.
Posted October 28, 2024
International Space Station (ISS)
NASA astronaut Don Pettit fills a sphere of water with food coloring in this image from Oct. 20, 2024.
Posted October 28, 2024
Perseverance (Rover)
Astrobiology
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars
Mars 2020
On its way up the side of Jezero Crater, the agency’s latest Red Planet off-roader peers all the way back to its landing site and scopes the path ahead.   NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is negotiating a steeply sloping route up Jezero Crater’s western wall with the aim of cresting the rim in early December. […]
Posted October 28, 2024
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