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Climate Change
Earth
Earth's Atmosphere
Greenhouse Gases
What we’re looking at This global map shows concentrations of carbon dioxide as the gas moved through Earth’s atmosphere from January through March 2020, driven by wind patterns and atmospheric circulation.  Because of the model’s high resolution, you can zoom in and see carbon dioxide emissions rising from power plants, fires, and cities, then spr
Posted July 23, 2024
ISS Research
Commercial Resupply
Expedition 71
Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply
NASA and its international partners are sending scientific investigations to the International Space Station on Northrop Grumman’s 21st commercial resupply services mission.
Posted July 23, 2024
Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)
Joint Agency Satellite Division
Kennedy Space Center
Launch Services Program
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
Science Mission Directorate
NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corporation) to provide launch services for NOAA’s JPSS-4 mission. The spacecraft is part of the multi-satellite cooperative Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) program, a partnership between NASA and NOAA.
Posted July 23, 2024
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
NASA Centers & Facilities
Science & Research
Uncategorized
When it comes to discoveries about our upper atmosphere, it pays to know your surroundings. Using data from the Twin Rockets to Investigate Cusp Electrodynamics (TRICE-2) rocket launch, NASA scientist Francesca Di Mare and Gregory Howes from the University of Iowa studied waves traveling down Earth’s magnetic field lines into the polar atmosphere.
Posted July 22, 2024
To commemorate the 25th anniversary of NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory launch, the Chandra team released this never-seen-before image of NGC 6872, a spiral galaxy in the Pavo (Peacock) constellation, on July 22, 2024.
Posted July 22, 2024
Biological & Physical Sciences
Citizen Science
Space Biology
Since 2020, NASA’s Citizen Science Seed Funding Program (CSSFP) has launched 24 new projects to expand citizen science in professional research. This year, proposals are due by November 19, 2024, with optional Notices of Intent by October 1, 2024. The planning start date is May 1, 2025.
Posted July 22, 2024
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Astrophysics
Galaxies
Marshall Space Flight Center
Nebulae
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of its launch, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory is releasing 25 never-before-seen views of a wide range of cosmic objects. These images, which all include data from Chandra, demonstrate how X-ray astronomy explores all corners of the universe.
Posted July 22, 2024
Artemis
Communicating and Navigating with Missions
Goddard Space Flight Center
Space Communications & Navigation Program
Space Communications Technology
Background NASA’s LEGS can do more than help Earthlings move about the planet. Three Lunar Exploration Ground Sites, or LEGS, will enhance the Near Space Network’s communications services and support of NASA’s Artemis campaign.
Posted July 22, 2024
Eileen M. Collins
Former Astronauts
NASA History
STS-93
Women at NASA
Women's History Month
At the end of February 1998, Johnson Space Center Deputy Director James D. Wetherbee called Astronaut Eileen Collins to his office in Building 1. He told her she had been assigned to command STS-93 and went with her to speak with Center Director George W.S. Abbey who informed her that she would be going to […]
Posted July 22, 2024
Humans in Space
HERA (Human Exploration Research Analog)
Human Research Program
NASA selected a new team of four research volunteers to participate in a simulated mission to Mars within HERA (Human Exploration Research Analog) at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Erin Anderson, Sergii Iakymov, Brandon Kent, and Sarah Elizabeth McCandless will begin their simulated trek to Mars on Friday, Aug. 9.
Posted July 22, 2024
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