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The latest updates from deep space missions, planetary defense, and scientific breakthroughs across the cosmos.
EarthFive Ways NASA Helps With Shark Conservation
While scientists at our partner institutions are directly focusing on shark conservation, NASA’s Earth-observing satellites collect key information about sharks’ habitat – the ocean. NASA’s satellites measure the height of the ocean, track currents, monitor marine habitats, and oversee water quality events like harmful algal blooms. Our long-term data sets also help us understand how …
AsteroidsSMART Nav: Giving Spacecraft the Power to Guide Themselves
When NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft begins its final mission phase, it will see a 4-megapixel view of nothing but a few very dim dots of light. At this point it’s four hours and somewhere between 54,000 and 61,000 miles from its goal — a small asteroid moonlet named Dimorphos whose orbital path …
Deep SpaceRide With Juno As It Flies Past the Solar System’s Biggest Moon and Jupiter
The probe flew closer to Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede, than any other spacecraft in more than two decades, offering dramatic glimpses of both the icy orb and the gas giant. On June 7, 2021, NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter’s ice-encrusted moon Ganymede than any spacecraft in more than two decades. Less than a …
ISSChile Peppers Start Spicing Up the Space Station
By Linda Herridge NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center Leerlo en espanol aqui. In a few months, fully grown red and green chile peppers should be tempting the taste buds of astronauts on the International Space Station. NASA’s Plant Habitat-04 (PH-04) experiment, containing Hatch chile pepper seeds, arrived at the space station aboard SpaceX’s 22nd …
AsteroidsNASA Solar Sail Asteroid Mission Readies for Launch on Artemis I
Editor’s note: This article has been updated to reflect the correct metric conversion for NEA Scout’s camera resolution. NASA’s Near-Earth Asteroid Scout is tucked away safely inside the agency’s powerful Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The solar sailing CubeSat is one of several secondary payloads hitching a ride on Artemis …
Deep Space40-Year Mystery Solved: Source of Jupiter’s X-Ray Flares Uncovered
A puzzler about the gas giant’s intense northern and southern lights has been deciphered. Planetary astronomers combined measurements taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter, with data from ESA’s (the European Space Agency’s) Earth-orbiting XMM-Newton mission, to solve a 40-year-old mystery about the origins of Jupiter’s unusual X-ray auroras. For the first time, they have …
AsteroidsNASA Lucy Mission’s Message to the Future
In the 1970s four spacecraft began their one-way trips out of our Solar System. As the first human-built objects to ever venture into interstellar space, NASA chose to place plaques on Pioneer 10 and 11 and golden records on Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft to serve as messages to any alien spacefarers that may someday …
MarsNASA’s Mars Helicopter Reveals Intriguing Terrain for Rover Team
Ingenuity’s ninth flight provided imagery that will help the Perseverance rover team develop its science plan going forward. Images snapped on July 5 by NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on its ambitious ninth flight have offered scientists and engineers working with the agency’s Perseverance Mars rover an unprecedented opportunity to scout out the road ahead. Ingenuity …
Deep SpaceSurface of Jupiter’s Moon Europa Churned by Small Impacts
Jupiter’s moon Europa and its global ocean may currently have conditions suitable for life. Scientists are studying processes on the icy surface as they prepare to explore. It’s easy to see the impact of space debris on our Moon, where the ancient, battered surface is covered with craters and scars. Jupiter’s icy moon Europa withstands …
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