NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft To Explore Unique Asteroid for Clues to Early Solar System
Set to launch next year, NASA’s Psyche mission marks the first time the agency has set out to explore an asteroid richer in metal than…
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Next Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flight Delayed Until After Conjunction – Here’s What Went Wrong
2,800 RPM Spin a Success, but Flight 14 Delayed to Post Conjunction It’s been an eventful several Martian days, or sols, since our last blog…
Solar Conjunction: NASA’s Mars Fleet Lies Low With Sun Between Earth and Red Planet
The missions will continue collecting data about the Red Planet, though engineers back on Earth will stop sending commands to them until mid-October. NASA will…
Mars Solar Conjunction: What Happens When the Sun Blocks our Signal?
Every day for over two decades, the U.S. has had a presence at Mars, using spacecraft to understand this extreme world and its potential as…
Going Hyperspectral for CHIME – The Copernicus Hyperspectral Imaging Mission for the Environment
With Covid restrictions a little more relaxed, scientists from Europe and the USA were finally able to team up for a long-awaited field experiment to…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Cameras Capture Mars Like Never Before – “A Huge Piece of Everything”
Scientists tap into an array of imagers aboard the six-wheeled explorer to get a big picture of the Red Planet. NASA’s Perseverance rover has been…
NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Detects Three Big Marsquakes
The lander cleared enough dust from one solar panel to keep its seismometer on through the summer, allowing scientists to study the three biggest quakes…
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts: Visionary Technology Could Pioneer the Future in Space
Dozens of concepts are being presented at this year’s NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Symposium, including eight led by technologists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NASA…
NASA Robots Compete in DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge Final
Led by NASA JPL, Team CoSTAR will participate in the SubT final this week to demonstrate multi-robot autonomy in a series of tests in extreme…
NASA’s Delta-X Mission Helps With Disaster Response in Wake of Hurricane Ida
Researchers flying a radar instrument over coastal wetlands in Louisiana helped with monitoring oil slicks in the Gulf of Mexico. Charged with studying the Mississippi…
Futuristic Solar Electric Thrusters Makes NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft Go
Futuristic electric thrusters emitting a cool blue glow will guide the Psyche spacecraft through deep space to a metal-rich asteroid. When it comes time for…
NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Flies at a Lower Altitude Than Ever Before – Captures a Mars Rock Feature in 3D
The rotorcraft captures nuances of rocky outcrop during aerial reconnaissance. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter provided a 3D view of a rock-covered mound during its 13th…
Interactive Web Experiences: Take a 3D Spin on Mars and Track NASA’s Perseverance Rover
Two interactive web experiences let you explore the Martian surface, as seen by cameras aboard the rover and orbiters flying overhead. It’s the next best…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Collects Puzzle Pieces of Mars’ History – Reveal “Potentially Habitable Sustained Environment”
The rocks it has analyzed for sample collection are helping the team better understand a past marked by volcanic activity and water. NASA’s Perseverance Mars…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Collects First Mars Rock Sample – “Truly a Historic Moment”
The rock core is now enclosed in an airtight titanium sample tube, and will be available for retrieval in the future. NASA’s Perseverance rover today…
DSN Upgrades: NASA’s Deep Space Network Looks to the Future
The DSN is being upgraded to communicate with more spacecraft than ever before and to accommodate evolving mission needs. When NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover…
Lucky 13? Mars Ingenuity Helicopter to Get Lower for More Detailed Images During Next Flight
“The longer you look back, the farther you can look forward.” –Winston Churchill Following Flight 12’s scouting images of “South Séítah,” which were the most…
1,000th Near-Earth Asteroid Observed by Planetary Radar Since 1968
Seven days after this historic milestone, a massive antenna at NASA’s Deep Space Network Goldstone complex imaged another, far larger object. On August 14, 2021,…