NASA’s EMIT Will Explore Diverse Science Questions on Extended Mission
Observing our planet from the International Space Station since July 2022, NASA’s EMIT (Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation) mission is beginning its next act....
Month : December 2024
How a NASA Senior Database Administrator Manifested her Dream Job
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Latha Balijepalle, a senior database administrator at NASA Ames, encourages others to take a...
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Takes a Last Look at Mysterious Sulfur
NASA’s Curiosity rover is preparing for the next leg of its journey, a monthslong trek to a formation called the boxwork, a set of weblike...
Science Done by Volunteers Highlighted at December’s American Geophysical Union Meeting
More than 30,000 scientists gathered in Washington, D.C. during the second week of December – many to show off the work of NASA’s science volunteers!...
NASA Satellites Reveal Abrupt Drop in Global Freshwater Levels
An international team of scientists using observations from NASA-German satellites found evidence that Earth’s total amount of freshwater dropped abruptly starting in May 2014 and...
Ken Freeman Receives Air Traffic Control Association (ATCA) Award for ATM-X Digital Information Platform (DIP)
Ken Freeman (center) receives the ATCA Award for ATM-X Digital Information Platform (DIP) from Rachel Jackson, Chair ATCA Board of Directors (left) and Carey Fagan,...
NASA Ocean World Explorers Have to Swim Before They Can Fly
When NASA’s Europa Clipper reaches its destination in 2030, the spacecraft will prepare to aim an array of powerful science instruments toward Jupiter’s moon Europa...
Commercial Moon Rovers Under Test
Through NASA’s Artemis campaign, astronauts will land on the lunar surface and use a new generation of spacesuits and rovers as they live, work, and...
NASA’s Europa Clipper: Millions of Miles Down, Instruments Deploying
NASA’s Europa Clipper, which launched Oct. 14 on a journey to Jupiter’s moon Europa, is already 13 million miles (20 million kilometers) from Earth. Two...
NASA Flights Map Critical Minerals From Skies Above Western US
On a crystal-clear afternoon above a desert ghost town, a NASA aircraft scoured the ground for minerals. The plane, a high-altitude ER-2 research aircraft, had...
