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Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Psyche Mission
Space Communications & Navigation Program
Space Operations Mission Directorate
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Tech Demo Missions
The video, featuring a cat named Taters, was sent back from nearly 19 million miles away by NASA’s laser communications demonstration, marking a historic milestone. NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications experiment beamed an ultra-high definition streaming video on Dec.
Posted December 18, 2023
Astrophysics
Citizen Science
Are we alone in the universe? About 30,000 volunteers want to know! These volunteers visited arewealone.earth to sift through a huge data set from the 100 meter Green Bank Telescope—inspecting it for signals that might indicate intelligent extraterrestrial life. As of this week, this giant team has made ONE MILLION inspections!
Posted December 18, 2023
Mars
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
On Aug. 18, 2023, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captured ridged lines carved onto Mars’ landscape by the gradual movement of ice. While surface ice deposits are mostly limited to Mars’ polar caps, these patterns appear in many non-polar Martian regions. As ice flows downhill, rock and soil are plucked from the surrounding landscape and […]
Posted December 18, 2023
Astrophysics
Black Holes
BurstCube
CubeSats
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Gamma-Ray Bursts
Neutron Stars
Small Satellite Missions
The Universe
Scientists and engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have completed testing for BurstCube, a shoebox-sized spacecraft designed to study the universe’s most powerful explosions.
Posted December 18, 2023
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Goddard Space Flight Center
Missions
Planets
The Solar System
Uranus
Uranus Moons
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently trained its sights on unusual and enigmatic Uranus, an ice giant that spins on its side. Webb captured this dynamic world with rings, moons, storms, and other atmospheric features – including a seasonal polar cap.
Posted December 18, 2023
Astrophysics
Galaxies
Goddard Space Flight Center
GUSTO (Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory)
Infrared Light
Missions
NASA Headquarters
Origin & Evolution of the Universe
Science & Research
Scientific Balloons
On a vast ice sheet in Antarctica, scientists and engineers are preparing a NASA experiment called GUSTO to explore the universe on a balloon. GUSTO will launch from the Ross Ice Shelf, near the U.S. National Science Foundation’s McMurdo Station research base, no earlier than Dec. 21.
Posted December 18, 2023
NASA History
Skylab
In December 1973, Skylab 4 astronauts Gerald P. Carr, Edward G. Gibson, and William R. Pogue passed the one-month mark of the third and final mission aboard the Skylab space station. Launching on Nov. 16, they began a planned 56-day flight that mission managers fully expected to extend to 84 days. They continued the science […]
Posted December 18, 2023
“When I mentor students, their academic [talents] are a given. They’re very bright. They’re very smart. But I mentor them to teach them what they don’t learn in school: how to work with other people, how to seek help, and how to mature from a student to a professional. “[I teach them that] when you fail, […]
Posted December 15, 2023
Aeronautics
Ingenuity (Helicopter)
In this image from Dec. 17, 1903, Orville Wright makes the first powered, controlled flight on Earth as his brother Wilbur looks on. Orville Wright covered 120 feet in 12 seconds during the first flight of the day. The Wright brothers made four flights that day, each longer than the last. The aircraft, Flyer 1, […]
Posted December 15, 2023
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