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Hubble Spies a Spiral in the Water Snake

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a vibrant spiral galaxy called NGC 5042 resides about 48 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Hydra (the water snake).

Posted March 7, 2025

Blogs

Sealing the Deal

Written by Melissa Rice, Professor of Planetary Science at Western Washington University This week, the Perseverance team faced a stubborn engineering challenge. After successfully collecting a core called “Green Gardens” from the “Tablelands” location, the rover struggled to seal the sample tube, despite multiple attempts.

Posted March 7, 2025

Blogs

Sols 4473-4474: So Many Rocks, So Many Textures!

Written by Susanne Schwenzer, Planetary Geologist at The Open University Earth planning date: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 The Martian landscape never ceases to amaze me, there is so much variation in texture and color! As a mineralogist, I marvel at them, but my colleagues trained in sedimentology regularly teach me how to see even more […]

Posted March 7, 2025

Artemis 2

Kennedy Space Center

Missions

Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle

Engineers Install Orion Solar Array Wings for Artemis II

Technicians with ESA (European Space Agency) and Airbus installed the four solar array wings on NASA’s Orion spacecraft for Artemis II on March 3. The solar array wings, attached to the service module, deploy after Orion reaches space to power the spacecraft.

Posted March 6, 2025

ISS Research

Humans in Space

International Space Station (ISS)

Ahead of Crew Return, NASA’s Crew-9 Concludes Science Mission

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission with agency astronauts Nick Hague, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov is preparing to return to Earth following their science mission aboard the International Space Station.

Posted March 6, 2025

Earth

Kachemak Bay’s Stony Waters

The OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 8 captured an image of Kachemak Bay’s turbid, cloudy waters on September 20, 2024. This cloudiness comes from glacial flour: bits of pulverized rock ground down by glaciers that has the consistency of flour.

Posted March 6, 2025

Virtual Guest Program

Anne C. McClain

Commercial Crew

International Space Station (ISS)

Kennedy Space Center

Nichole Ayers

NASA Invites You to Share Excitement of Agency’s SpaceX Crew-10 Launch

NASA invites the public to take part in virtual activities for the launch of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station.

Posted March 6, 2025

International Space Station (ISS)

Commercial Crew

Expedition 72

What You Need to Know about NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission

Four crew members are preparing to launch to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission to perform research, technology demonstrations, and maintenance activities aboard the microgravity laboratory.

Posted March 6, 2025

General

Ames Research Center

NASA Centers & Facilities

NASA Seeks Commercial Partner for Robots Aboard Space Station

As NASA continues to enable a sustainable, cost-effective commercial space economy, the agency is seeking partnership proposals for the operations, sustaining engineering, and utilization of Astrobee, a free-flying robotic system aboard the International Space Station.

Posted March 6, 2025

Astrophysics Division

Citizen Science

Redshift Wranglers Reach Remarkable Milestones

A “classification” is when a volunteer or citizen scientist finishes marking up or sorting one image or other piece of data. Each classification done by volunteers for the Redshift Wrangler project tells us something about the distance and age of a far-away galaxy, bringing us one step closer to understanding how galaxies evolve.

Posted March 6, 2025