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Written by Ashley Stroupe, Mission Operations Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Wednesday, March 12, 2025 The days are getting shorter and colder for Curiosity as we head into winter. So our rover is sleeping in a bit before waking up to a busy plan. Today I served as the Engineering Uplink […]
Posted March 15, 2025
Learning Resources
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For Colleges & Universities
Grades 9 - 12
What does an engineer do? An engineer applies scientific principles to design, build, and test machines, systems, or structures to meet specific needs. They follow the steps of the engineering design process to ensure their designs work as planned while meeting a variety of requirements, including size, weight, safety, and cost.
Posted March 14, 2025
Scientific Balloons
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Goddard Space Flight Center
Wallops Flight Facility
NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program has returned to Wānaka, New Zealand, for two scheduled flights to test and qualify the agency’s super pressure balloon technology.
Posted March 14, 2025
Technology Transfer & Spinoffs
Spinoffs
Technology Transfer
Airplane manufacturers running noise tests on new aircraft now have a much cheaper option than traditional wired microphone arrays. It’s also sensitive enough to help farmers with pest problems.
Posted March 14, 2025
Blue Ghost (lander)
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer)
The International Space Station supports a wide range of scientific activities from looking out at our universe to breakthroughs in medical research, and is an active proving ground for technology for future Moon exploration missions and beyond.
Posted March 14, 2025
Night Sky Network
Depending on your locale, equinoxes can be seen as harbingers of longer nights and gloomy weather, or promising beacons of nicer temperatures and more sunlight. Observing and predicting equinoxes is one of the earliest skills in humanity’s astronomical toolkit.
Posted March 14, 2025
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Ames Research Center
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Glenn Research Center
Langley Research Center
Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program
University Innovation
Eight finalist teams participating in the 2025 NASA Gateways to Blue Skies Competition have been selected to present to a panel of judges their design concepts for aviation solutions that can help the agriculture industry.  Sponsored by NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, this year’s competition asked teams of university students to re
Posted March 14, 2025
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Ionosphere
Mesosphere
Science Mission Directorate
The Sun
Uncategorized
Following the 3,000th orbit of NASA’s AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) aboard the International Space Station, researchers publicly released the mission’s first trove of scientific data, crucial to investigate how and why subtle changes in Earth’s atmosphere cause disturbances, as well as how these atmospheric disturbances impact technological sy
Posted March 14, 2025
Johnson Space Center
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Missions
As part of NASA’s Artemis campaign, the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, managed out of Johnson Space Center in Houston, is paving the way for conducting lunar science for the benefit of humanity.
Posted March 14, 2025
Armstrong Test Facility (Plum Brook)
Lunar Eclipses
The phases of the lunar eclipse are visible in this time-lapse image of the Moon above the Space Environments Complex at NASA’s Glenn Research Center at NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, OH on March 14, 2025. Toward the middle of the Moon’s track through the sky, it appears red – this is the […]
Posted March 14, 2025
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