NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Sees Potential Martian “Road” Ahead
Perseverance scientist impressed with aerial images of location considered for rover exploration. Ask any space explorer, and they’ll have a favorite photograph or two from…
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NASA’s Psyche Asteroid Mission Moves Closer To Launch – “It’s Incredible To Be at This Point”
As part of NASA’s Discovery Program, the mission to explore a metal-rich asteroid is well on its way to an August 2022 launch. With NASA’s…
NASA’s MISR Sees California Wildfire Smoke Plumes Traveling Miles Into the Atmosphere
Smoke from several large wildfires burning in Northern California can be seen traveling miles into the atmosphere. As of August 24, wildfires in Northern California…
NuSTAR Space Observatory: Seeing Some Cosmic X-Ray Emitters Might Be a Matter of Perspective
Known as ultraluminous X-ray sources, the emitters are easy to spot when viewed straight on, but they might be hidden from view if they point…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Explores a Changing Landscape – Video Tour of Martian Mountain
A new video rings in the rover’s ninth year on Mars, letting viewers tour Curiosity’s location on a Martian mountain. Images of knobbly rocks and…
Astronomers Discover a “Break” in One of the Milky Way’s Spiral Arms
The newly discovered feature offers insight into the large-scale structure of our galaxy, which is difficult to study from Earth’s position inside it. Scientists have…
Fizzing Sodium May Explain Asteroid Phaethon’s Majestic Cometlike Activity
Models and lab tests suggest the asteroid could be venting sodium vapor as it orbits close to the Sun, explaining its increase in brightness. As…
Online Visualization Tool From NASA Provide a New Window on Rising Seas
A new online visualization tool will enable anyone to see what sea levels will look like anywhere in the world in the decades to come….
NASA’s Juno Celebrates 10 Years With New Infrared View of Mammoth Jovian Moon Ganymede
The spacecraft used its infrared instrument during recent flybys of Jupiter’s mammoth moon to create this latest map, which comes out a decade after Juno’s…
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Spots Perseverance Rover From Above – Can You See It?
Can you see NASA’s newest rover in this picture from Jezero Crater? NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter recently completed its 11th flight at the Red Planet,…
A Few Steps Closer to Jupiter’s Moon Europa: Spacecraft Hardware Makes Headway
Take a closer look at the complex choreography involved in building NASA’s Europa Clipper as the mission to explore Jupiter’s moon Europa approaches its 2024…
NASA Assembling a Response Team After Perseverance Rover’s First Mars Sampling Attempt Comes Up Empty
The rover continues to explore Jezero Crater while the team assesses its recent activities. Data sent to Earth by NASA’s Perseverance rover after its first…
NASA Scientist’s Favorite Martian Image: Helicopter Scouts Ridge Area for Perseverance
A member of the Perseverance rover’s science team explains why the aerial image offers science advantages over ground-level images. Ask any space explorer, and they’ll…
Hidden Supernova: Stars Are Exploding in Dusty Galaxies – We Just Can’t Always See Them
Exploding stars generate dramatic light shows. Infrared telescopes like Spitzer can see through the haze and to give a better idea of how often these…
NASA Says Cold Shadows on the Lunar Surface Can Explain Moon Water Mystery
The shadows cast by the roughness of the Moon’s surface create small cold spots for water ice to accumulate even during the harsh lunar daytime….
New Index Ranks Rainforests’ Vulnerability to Climate and Human Impacts
A new index shows that the world’s rainforests are responding differently to threats like a warming climate and deforestation. Scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory…
Doubt Cast on Premise of Subsurface Liquid Water Lakes on Mars – May Just Be Frozen Clay
Three studies published in the past month have cast doubt on the premise of subsurface lakes below the Martian south pole. Where there’s water, there’s…
Aerial Scouting of “Raised Ridges” for NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s Flight 10
Ingenuity has come a long way from its original airfield, “Wright Brothers Field,” which is 0.64 miles (1.04 kilometers) to the northeast of our current…