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Planetary Science
Mars rovers can only make exciting new discoveries thanks to human scientists making careful decisions about their next stop. The Mars 2020 mission is aimed at exploring the geology of Jezero Crater and seeking signs of ancient microbial life on Mars using the Perseverance rover.
Posted June 27, 2024
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Ames Research Center
Glenn Research Center
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Langley Research Center
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Landing rovers and helicopters on Mars is a challenge. It’s an even bigger challenge when you don’t have enough information about how the parachutes are enduring strain during the descent to the surface.
Posted June 27, 2024
Hubble Space Telescope
Nebulae
Protostars
Stars
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image presents a visually striking collection of interstellar gas and dust. Named RCW 7, the nebula is located just over 5,300 light-years from Earth in the constellation Puppis. Nebulae are areas rich in the raw material needed to form new stars.
Posted June 27, 2024
Johnson Space Center
Artemis
General
Next Gen STEM
STEM Engagement at NASA
xEVA & Human Surface Mobility
Experienced spacewalkers, university students, flight controllers, and NASA team members at all stages of their career recently came together at Johnson Space Center’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) for an anniversary celebration that looked to the future as much as the past.
Posted June 27, 2024
Ames Research Center
The San Francisco Bay Area has a new and interactive way to learn more about the innovative work of NASA’s Ames Research Center.  A newly redesigned NASA Ames Visitor Center at Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland, California, reopened to the public June 22 at the NASA Fest at Chabot celebration.   The two-day […]
Posted June 27, 2024
Mars Odyssey
Deimos
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars
Mars Moons
Phobos
The 23-year-old orbiter is taking images that offer horizon-wide views of the Red Planet similar to what astronauts aboard the International Space Station see over Earth. NASA’s longest-lived Mars robot is about to mark a new milestone on June 30: 100,000 trips around the Red Planet since launching 23 years ago. During that time, the […]
Posted June 27, 2024
Citizen Science
Community Partners
Science Activation
On Saturday, June 1, 2024, thousands of community members attended the Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (STEM) Community Day hosted by Christopher Newport University in partnership with Newport News Public Schools in Virginia.
Posted June 27, 2024
Earth's Atmosphere
Goddard Space Flight Center
GOLD (Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk)
Heliophysics
Ionosphere
The Sun
Who knew Earth’s upper atmosphere was like alphabet soup? NASA’s Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission has revealed unexpected C- and X-shaped formations in an electrified layer of gas high above our heads called the ionosphere.
Posted June 27, 2024
Marshall Space Flight Center
Blasting into Summer: Thousands Enjoy NASA in the Park By Wayne Smith It was a super Saturday in the park to celebrate space and the Rocket City. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center joined Downtown Huntsville Inc. and other community partners to host NASA in the Park, a public outreach event that attracted thousands to Big […]
Posted June 27, 2024
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
Missions
NASA is fostering continued scientific, educational, and technological developments in low Earth orbit to benefit humanity, while also supporting deep space exploration at the Moon and Mars.
Posted June 26, 2024
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