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Artemis

NASA and Slovenia affirmed their cooperation in future space endeavors on Friday as Slovenia became the 39th country to sign the Artemis Accords.

Posted April 19, 2024

Technology Transfer & Spinoffs

Climate Change

Earth

Goddard Space Flight Center

Spinoffs

Technology Transfer

NASA Data Helps Beavers Build Back Streams

Humans aren’t the only mammals working to mitigate the effects of climate change in the Western United States. People there are also enlisting the aid of nature’s most prolific engineers – beavers.

Posted April 19, 2024

Looking Beyond the Veil

In this image released on March 9, 2024, the NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope gives us a more detailed view of a well-studied but still mysterious region, NGC 604. The most noticeable features are tendrils and clumps of emission that appear bright red, extending out from areas that look like clearings, […]

Posted April 19, 2024

Aeronautics

Ames Research Center

NASA Centers & Facilities

Wildfires

NASA, FAA Partner to Develop New Wildland Fire Technologies

NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have established a research transition team to guide the development of wildland fire technology. Wildland fires are occurring more frequently and at a larger scale than in past decades, according to the U.S. Forest Service.

Posted April 19, 2024

General

Join NASA in Celebrating Earth Day 2024 by Sharing a #GlobalSelfie

NASA invites you — and everyone else on the planet — to take part in a worldwide celebration of Earth Day with the agency’s #GlobalSelfie event. While NASA satellites constantly look at Earth from space, on Earth Day we’re asking you to step outside and take a picture of yourself in your corner of the […]

Posted April 19, 2024

Climate Change

Earth

Earth System Observatory (ESO)

Natural Disasters

Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO)

NASA Selects New Aircraft-Driven Studies of Earth and Climate Change

NASA has selected six new airborne missions that include domestic and international studies of fire-induced clouds, Arctic coastal change, air quality, landslide hazards, shrinking glaciers, and emissions from agricultural lands.

Posted April 19, 2024

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

Seyfert Galaxies

Spiral Galaxies

The Universe

Hubble Captures a Bright Galactic and Stellar Duo

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features NGC 3783, a bright barred spiral galaxy about 130 million light-years from Earth that also lends its name to the eponymous NGC 3783 galaxy group. Like galaxy clusters, galaxy groups are aggregates of gravitationally bound galaxies.

Posted April 19, 2024

Earth Day

Kennedy Space Center

STEM Engagement at NASA

Sustainability at Kennedy Space Center

Students Celebrate Rockets, Environment at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, sustainability and preservation efforts here on Earth are as much of a priority as rocket launches, spacecraft, and the exploration of worlds beyond our own.

Posted April 19, 2024

Earth

AI for Earth: How NASA’s Artificial Intelligence and Open Science Efforts Combat Climate Change

As extreme weather events increase around the world due to climate change, the need for further research into our warming planet has increased as well. For NASA, climate research involves not only conducting studies of these events, but also empowering outside researchers to do the same.

Posted April 19, 2024

Blogs

Curiosity (Rover)

Mars

Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)

Sols 4159-4160: A Fully Loaded First Sol

Earth planning date: Wednesday, April 17, 2024 Curiosity continues to make progress along the margin of upper Gediz Vallis ridge, investigating the broken bedrock in our workspace and acquiring images of the ridge deposit as the rover drives south. Today’s 2-sol plan focused on a DRT, contact science, and drive on the first sol, followed […]

Posted April 18, 2024