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Humans in Space
HERA (Human Exploration Research Analog)
Human Research Program
NASA selected a crew of four volunteers to participate in a simulated journey to Mars inside a habitat at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.  Abhishek Bhagat, Kamak Ebadi, Susan Hilbig, and Ariana Lutsic will enter the ground-based HERA (Human Exploration Research Analog) facility on Friday, Jan. 26, to live and work like astronauts […]
Posted January 11, 2024
NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar)
Cryosphere
Ice & Glaciers
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Sea Ice
NISAR will study changes to ice sheets, glaciers, and sea ice in fine detail, as climate change warms the air and ocean. NISAR, the soon-to-launch radar satellite from NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), will measure some key Earth vital signs, from the health of wetlands to ground deformation by volcanoes to the […]
Posted January 10, 2024
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Goddard Space Flight Center
Missions
Planetary Nebulae
Science & Research
The Universe
Beta Pictoris, a young planetary system located just 63 light-years away, continues to intrigue scientists even after decades of in-depth study. It possesses the first dust disk imaged around another star — a disk of debris produced by collisions between asteroids, comets, and planetesimals.
Posted January 10, 2024
Exoplanet Discoveries
Exoplanets
Terrestrial Planets
TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)
In a system with two known planets, astronomers spotted something new: a small object transiting across the Sun-sized star. This turned out to be another planet: extra hot and Earth-sized.
Posted January 10, 2024
Humans in Space
​Media Contacts NASA Headquarters: Kathryn Hambleton, Rachel Kraft, Vanessa Lloyd, 202-358-1100 Latest Updates: Artemis blog Briefings Artemis Update (Jan 9, 2024) Related Resources Artemis WHAT/WHY/HOWArtemis Accords Program and Project ResourcesEducation and STEM Engagement Broadcast and Historical Resources Artemis B-roll Artemis Imagery Q&A
Posted January 10, 2024
An Orbital Sciences Corporation (now Northrop Grumman) Antares rocket carrying the Cygnus spacecraft launches from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Thursday, January 9, 2014. The Orbital-1 mission was Orbital Sciences’ first contracted cargo delivery flight to the space station for NASA.
Posted January 10, 2024
General
Back to ESI Home Advancing Radiation-Hardened Photon Counting Sensor Technologies Advancements in Predicting Plume-Surface Interaction Environments During Propulsive Landings Advancing the Performance of Refrigeration Systems Based on the Elastocaloric Effect
Posted January 10, 2024
General
Patrick Shamberger Texas A&M University Elastocaloric materials heat up or cool down when stress is applied to them or removed.
Posted January 10, 2024
General
Nenad Miljkovic University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Traditional elastocaloric refrigeration systems are based on uniaxial compression of the elastocaloric material which makes them highly constrained by actuator requirements, the physics of column buckling, and limited surface area for heat transfer.
Posted January 10, 2024
General
David Scarborough Auburn University Professor Scarborough will develop and implement tools to extract critical data from experimental measurements of plume surface interaction (PSI) to identify and classify dominant regimes, develop physics-based, semi-empirical models to predict the PSI phenomena, and quantify the uncertainties.
Posted January 10, 2024
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