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Can Volcanic Super Eruptions Lead to Major Cooling? Study Suggests No

New research suggests that sunlight-blocking particles from an extreme eruption would not cool surface temperatures on Earth as severely as previously estimated.

Posted March 1, 2024

Research and Technology at Kennedy Space Center

IPEx Autonomy Testing

Harsh, low-angle sunlight, long and dark shadows, and a featureless terrain will make navigation difficult when NASA’s ISRU Pilot Excavator (IPEx) is sent to the Moon.

Posted March 1, 2024

Marshall Earth Sciences

Co-Authored Paper on Data-Centric Machine Learning Research

Manil Maskey (ST1) co-authored a position paper entitled “Data-centric Machine Learning Research — Past, Present and Future.” The pre-print of the paper is available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.13028.

Posted March 1, 2024

Hubble Uncovers a Celestial Fossil

This densely populated group of stars is the globular cluster NGC 1841, which is part of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way galaxy that lies about 162,000 light-years away. Satellite galaxies are bound by gravity in orbits around a more massive host galaxy. We typically think of the Andromeda […]

Posted March 1, 2024

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NASA’s Global Precipitation Measurement Mission: 10 years, 10 stories

From peering into hurricanes to tracking El Niño-related floods and droughts to aiding in disaster responses, the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission has had a busy decade in orbit. As the GPM mission team at NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) commemorates its Feb. 27, 2014 launch, here are 10 highlights from the […]

Posted March 1, 2024

Missions

Goddard Space Flight Center

OSAM-1 (On-Orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1)

Update on Status of NASA’s OSAM-1 Project

Following an in-depth, independent project review, NASA has decided to discontinue the On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1) project due to continued technical, cost, and schedule challenges, and a broader community evolution away from refueling unprepared spacecraft, which has led to a lack of a committed partner.

Posted March 1, 2024

AIM (Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere)

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Heliophysics Division

Mesosphere

Science & Research

The Sun

Night-Shining Cloud Mission Ends; Yields High Science Results for NASA

After 16 years studying Earth’s highest clouds for the benefit of humanity – polar mesospheric clouds – from its orbit some 350 miles above the ground, NASA’s Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere, or AIM, mission has come to an end. Initially slated for a two-year mission, AIM was extended numerous times due to its […]

Posted March 1, 2024

Night Sky Network

March’s Night Sky Notes: Constant Companions: Circumpolar Constellations, Part II

Some constellations can be as familiar as old friends. Learn about three of them in March’s Night Sky Notes!

Posted March 1, 2024

Ames Research Center

Astrogram

NASA Ames Astrogram – January/February 2024

Into the Belly of the Rover: VIPER’s Final Science Instrument Installed by Rachel Hoover TRIDENT, designed and developed by engineers at Honeybee Robotics in Altadena, California, is the fourth and final science instrument to be installed into VIPER.

Posted March 1, 2024

Johnson Space Center

NASA Selects ACMI as Second Approved Exploration Park Facility

NASA and the American Center for Manufacturing and Innovation (ACMI) signed an agreement Thursday, Feb. 29 to lease underutilized land in a 240-acre Exploration Park at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. ACMI will enable the development of facilities to enable commercial and defense space manufacturing.

Posted February 29, 2024