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Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program
The NASA Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO) seeks solutions to complex Earth Science problems using transformative or unconventional computing technologies such as quantum computing, quantum machine learning, neuromorphic computing, or in-memory computing.
Posted March 20, 2025
SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography)
Earth
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Oceans
More accurate maps based on data from the SWOT mission can improve underwater navigation and result in greater knowledge of how heat and life move around the world’s ocean. There are better maps of the Moon’s surface than of the bottom of Earth’s ocean. Researchers have been working for decades to change that. As part […]
Posted March 19, 2025
Kennedy Space Center
The high-rise bridge that serves as the primary access point for employees and visitors to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida is fully operational. In the late hours of March 18, 2025, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) opened the westbound portion of the NASA Causeway Bridge, which spans the Indian River Lagoon and connects […]
Posted March 19, 2025
NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore, left, Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, second from left, and NASA astronauts Nick Hague, second from right, and Suni Williams, right, are all smiles as they wait to exit a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on March 18, 2025.
Posted March 19, 2025
Astrophysics
Citizen Science
Peer-reviewed scientific journal articles are the bedrock of science.
Posted March 19, 2025
Euclid
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Stars
With contributions from NASA, the mission is looking back into the universe’s history to understand how the universe’s expansion has changed.  The Euclid mission — led by ESA (European Space Agency) with contributions from NASA — aims to find out why our universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. Astronomers use the term “dark energy” […]
Posted March 19, 2025
Game Changing Development Program
Langley Research Center
NASA Centers & Facilities
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Technology
This compressed, resolution-limited gif shows the view of lunar sunset from one of the six Stereo Cameras for Lunar-Plume Surface Studies (SCALPSS) 1.1 cameras on Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander, which operated on the Moon’s surface for a little more than 14 days and stopped, as anticipated, a few hours into lunar night. SCALPSS was taking […]
Posted March 19, 2025
Blogs
Written by Michelle Minitti, Planetary Geologist at Framework Earth planning date: Friday, March 14, 2025 The rover successfully arrived at the “Humber Park” outcrop which, on this fine “Pi Day” on Earth, we could convince ourselves looked like a pie with a sandy interior and a rough and rocky crust. We can only hope our […]
Posted March 19, 2025
Humans in Space
Commercial Crew
Expedition 72
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
Space Operations Mission Directorate
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 completed the agency’s ninth commercial crew rotation mission to the International Space Station on Tuesday, splashing down safely in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, in the Gulf of America.
Posted March 19, 2025
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Artemis
Blue Ghost (lander)
Johnson Space Center
Kennedy Space Center
Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA Headquarters
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Technology
After landing on the Moon with NASA science and technology demonstrations March 2, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 concluded its mission March 16. Analysis of data returned to Earth from the NASA instruments continues, benefitting future lunar missions.
Posted March 18, 2025
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