NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover: Searching for Sand Transport
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover is currently stopped for sampling at Skinner Ridge rock. An important aspect of Perseverance’s mission is sampling activities, and therefore the…
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SpaceX Cargo Dragon is Go for Launch Today
International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 67 crew members are training for this weekend’s arrival of the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft as it prepares for its…
Don’t Miss: Buck Supermoon – AKA The Thunder Moon
The next full moon is called the Buck Supermoon, the Thunder Moon, and the Hay or Mead Moon. Wednesday afternoon, July 13, 2022, will be…
NASA’s CAPSTONE Executes Trajectory Correction Maneuver – Pinpoints Path to Moon
NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) spacecraft successfully completed its second trajectory correction maneuver starting at about 11:30 a.m. EDT…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Scouts Mars Sample Return Campaign Landing Sites
The six-wheeled roving explorer has inspected a stretch of the Red Planet to see if it is flat enough for NASA’s next Mars lander. While…
NASA’s New Webb Data Will Transform Our Understanding of the Early Universe
Exquisite New Data Will Transform Our Understanding of the Early Universe A flurry of bright white galaxies is stirring up this incredible scene – captured…
Biden Releases Webb’s First Image: Deepest Infrared View of Universe Yet – Compare to Hubble
On Monday, July 11, President Joe Biden released one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s first images in a preview event at the White House…
At Last! NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Is Now Fully Ready for Science
It has been a long journey for the James Webb Space Telescope, filled with setbacks and obstacles to overcome. Some consider its start date all…
Webb Telescope Could Reveal Big Secrets of Our Universe From Space Dust
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is gearing up to deliver incredible new images of distant worlds and far-flung galaxies, but the new infrared space observatory…
Key Milestone for NASA’s EZIE Mission To Study Electrical Currents in Earth’s Upper Atmosphere
NASA’s Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) project – a mission to explore electrical currents in Earth’s upper atmosphere – has passed a crucial developmental milestone,…
Hubble Portrait of a Globular Cluster: A Multitude of Glittering Stars
This observation from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the globular cluster Terzan 2 in the constellation Scorpio. Found in a wide variety of galaxies,…
NASA Releases List of Stunning Cosmic Targets for Webb Telescope’s First Images
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will soon reveal unprecedented and detailed views of the universe, with the upcoming release of its first full-color images and…
Become a Jovian Vortex Hunter: Help NASA by Spotting Vortices on the Planet Jupiter
Jovian Vortex Hunter, a new NASA citizen science project, seeks your help spotting vortices – spiral wind patterns – and other phenomena in photos of…
Hundreds of Wildland Fires Darken Skies Over Alaska
Satellite images show smoke from hundreds of wildland fires darkening Alaskan skies. Alaskan summers are usually described as brief and mild. In the early summer…
Heat and Fires Scorch Northern Canada: Hundreds of Fires Raging in Northwest Territories and Yukon
In early July 2022, a combination of dry weather, lightning, and unusual heat fueled hundreds of wildland fires in northern Canada. 136 fires were burning…
NASA Continues to Prepare Artemis I Moon Rocket for Launch
Since the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion returned to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 2,…
This Week @NASA: Webb Space Telescopes First Full Color Images, Important Mission to the Moon
Ready to showcase the Webb space telescope’s first full-color images … Back in touch with a spacecraft on an important mission to the Moon …….
NASA Air Pollution Instrument Completes Satellite Integration
Crews successfully completed the first fully integrated powered testing of the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument on Intelsat IS40e on June 30. This…
