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2024 Solar Eclipse
Earth's Moon
Eclipses
Skywatching
Skywatching Tips
Solar Eclipses
Catch Mars and Saturn rising, and Jupiter hangs out with Comet 12P. Plus NASA has you covered for the total eclipse whether you’re headed to totality or watching from afar.
Posted April 1, 2024
Goddard Space Flight Center
OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer)
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer) team received the American Astronomical Society’s Neil Armstrong Space Flight Achievement Award “for exceptional performance and extraordinary perseverance in successfully delivering a sample from asteroid Bennu to Earth.” The award, name
Posted April 1, 2024
International Space Station (ISS)
Solar Eclipses
NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station wear eclipse glasses in this image from March 26, 2024. While millions of people on Earth experience the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, the space station crew will have the opportunity to see it from 250 miles above our planet. Except during the brief period when […]
Posted April 1, 2024
General
Ames Research Center
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Earth's Moon
VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover)
NASA’s VIPER – short for the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover – now stands taller and more capable than ever. And that’s thanks to its mast. VIPER’s mast, and the suite of instruments affixed to it, looks a lot like the rover’s “neck” and “head.” The mast instruments are designed to help the team of rover drivers […]
Posted April 1, 2024
Skywatching
On April 8, 2024, as the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, thousands of amateur citizen scientists will measure air temperatures and snap pictures of clouds. The data they collect will aid researchers who are investigating how the Sun influences climates in different environments.
Posted April 1, 2024
Citizen Science
Night Sky Network
April is Citizen Science Month at NASA. Here are some projects that you take part in during the eclipse on April 8th, and beyond!
Posted April 1, 2024
Skywatching
Skywatching Tips
Jupiter plows through the Pleiades on March 14, a chance to spot Mercury at month’s end along with a subtle lunar eclipse, and a comet worth keeping an eye on!
Posted March 30, 2024
General
Artemis
Human Landing System Program
Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA selected 12 finalist teams to compete in the next round of the Human Lander Challenge (HuLC) competition. In 2023, NASA invited undergraduate and graduate students from accredited colleges and universities in the United States to propose innovative solutions to manage the lunar dust a spacecraft stirs up when landing on the Moon.
Posted March 29, 2024
Skywatching
Skywatching Tips
The Solar System
The next full moon is the Crow, Crust, Sap, Sugar, or Worm Moon; the Paschal Moon; Purim; the Holi Festival Moon; Madin Poya; the Pothole Moon; a Micromoon, and a Partial Lunar Eclipse.
Posted March 29, 2024
NASA has selected Science Applications International Corporation of Reston, Virginia, for safety and mission assurance support at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, and White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico.
Posted March 29, 2024
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