NASA’s Voyager 1 Spacecraft Mystery: Engineers Investigating Telemetry Data
While the Voyager 1 spacecraft continues to return science data and otherwise operate as normal, the mission team is searching for the source of a…
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Extreme Indian Heat Wave: NASA’s ECOSTRESS Detects Blistering “Heat Islands”
The instrument aboard the space station documents blistering hot temperatures in urban areas around Delhi during the historic heat wave on the Indian subcontinent. A…
Days Are Numbered: Power Levels Diminishing for NASA’s Marsquake Hunting InSight Lander
Dusty solar panels and darker skies are expected to bring the Mars lander mission to a close around the end of this year. NASA’s InSight…
Solving the Baffling Mysteries of Invisible Frost and Dust Avalanches on Mars
A new research study using data from NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter may explain why Martian frost can be invisible to the naked eye and why…
NASA’s EMIT Mission Will Map Tiny Dust Particles To Study Big Climate Impacts
To help researchers model climate effects, NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation mission will measure the composition of minerals that become airborne dust. Blown…
Watch the Official Trailer: NASA’s Psyche Mission to a Metal World
Join the journey as NASA’s Psyche mission team launches in 2022 to explore a unique metallic asteroid orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter. The…
NASA’s InSight Records Monster Quake on Mars – The Largest Ever Detected on Another Planet
Estimated to be magnitude 5, the quake is the strongest ever detected on another planet. NASA’s InSight Mars lander has detected the largest quake ever…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover: To Sample or Not To Sample
One of the prime objectives of the NASA 2020 Perseverance mission is to collect a diverse cache of rock samples for eventual return to Earth….
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter in Contact With Perseverance Rover After Communications Dropout
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) mission controllers received confirmation on Thursday, May 5, 2022, that the agency’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter had re-established communications with the…
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Scouts Ridgeline for Perseverance Science Team
The rotorcraft provided rover scientists an aerial perspective of an interesting rocky outcrop. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter recently surveyed an intriguing ridgeline near the ancient…
NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft Arrives at Kennedy Space Center
The Psyche spacecraft completed its journey from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. First, it traveled…
Don’t Miss: Planets of Dusk and Dawn, a Lunar Eclipse, and the Coma Star Cluster
What’s Up for May? The planets of dusk and dawn, a lunar eclipse, and the Coma star cluster. May begins and ends with a couple…
NASA Mars Perseverance Rover Campaign #2: The Delta Front
Recently on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover officially began the “Delta Front Campaign.” This second campaign of the mission commenced on April 18th, 2022, the 415th…
Increased Risks to Corn Crops and Society From Clusters of Weather Extremes
To assess how climate warming will change risks such as crop failures and wildfires, it’s necessary to look at how the risks are likely to…
Parallel Ice Ridges Increase the Odds That Jupiter’s Moon Europa Harbors Alien Life
Parallel ice ridges, a common feature on Jupiter’s moon Europa, are found on Greenland’s ice sheet – and could bode well for Europa’s potential habitability….
Has the James Webb Space Telescope Cooled Down to Its Final Temperature?
The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is now cooled by a gaseous helium cryocooler to under 7 kelvins (minus 447 degrees…
NASA Ingenuity Helicopter Spots Spacecraft Wreckage on Mars – Perseverance’s Cone-Shaped Backshell
Eyeing some of the components that enabled the Perseverance rover to get safely to the Martian surface could provide valuable insights for future missions. NASA’s…
NASA Extends Exploration for 8 Planetary Science Missions – Substantial Potential for New Discoveries
Among the missions selected for extension are InSight, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mars Odyssey, and Curiosity, all of which have been critical to expanding our understanding…
