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Earth planning date: Wednesday, May 8, 2024 What a wonderful sight to see all the sedimentary structures. I am a geochemist, but I hear the excitement in the voices of my sediment-specialist colleagues, discussing all those textures and things to see. Generally, it is those features that allow us to determine what has happened in terms […]
Posted May 9, 2024
Blogs
Earth planning date: Monday, May 6, 2024 Curiosity’s set of complex activities and drive over the weekend executed perfectly and we started our planning today directly in front of a scarp, or wall, along a section of the upper Gediz Valis ridge known as “Pinnacle Ridge.” The view along this scarp did not disappoint!  Mastcam planned a […]
Posted May 9, 2024
Office of Technology, Policy and Strategy (OTPS)
Questionnaire responses due by June 7, 2024 NASA’s Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy (OTPS) is asking members of the lunar community to respond to a new Lunar Non-Interference Questionnaire that will inform the development of a framework for further work on non-interference of lunar activities.
Posted May 8, 2024
Marshall Space Flight Center
New Flag is in the Stars for Marshall’s Huntsville Operations Support Center By Wayne Smith A new flag is flying closer to the stars outside the Huntsville Operations Support Center at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center following a May 2 ceremony. The white flag features a blue logo of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft and marks contributions […]
Posted May 8, 2024
Clouds
Earth Observatory
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this Dec. 17, 2023, photograph of the Sulaiman Mountains in central Pakistan. The Sulaiman Mountains form a natural barrier between the plateaus to the west and the Indus River Valley to the east.
Posted May 8, 2024
Astrophysics
Exoplanet Atmosphere
Exoplanet Science
Exoplanets
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Science & Research
Studying Exoplanets
Super-Earth Exoplanets
The Universe
Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have detected atmospheric gases surrounding 55 Cancri e, a hot rocky exoplanet 41 light-years from Earth.
Posted May 8, 2024
Johnson Space Center
General
People of Johnson
A quest for innovative ideas and development processes led biomedical engineer Kimia Seyedmadani to NASA’s Human Research Program (HRP) in 2018.
Posted May 8, 2024
Active Galaxies
Astrophysics
Galaxies
Goddard Space Flight Center
The Universe
XRISM (X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission)
After starting science operations in February, Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) studied the monster black hole at the center of galaxy NGC 4151.
Posted May 8, 2024
Glenn Research Center
Glenn History
Langley Research Center
In a crowded control room on May 8, 1942, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) leaders George Lewis and John Victory pushed a button and spun a crank that activated a massive piston engine in the adjacent test cell of the Engine Propeller Research Building (EPRB). This commenced the first test conducted at the NACA’s […]
Posted May 8, 2024
Climate Change
Natural Disasters
SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography)
Uncategorized
Water on Earth
A partnership between NASA and the French space agency, the satellite is poised to help improve forecasts of where and when flooding will occur in Earth’s rivers, lakes, and reservoirs. Rivers, lakes, and reservoirs are like our planet’s arteries, carrying life-sustaining water in interconnected networks.
Posted May 8, 2024
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