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Geologist Christine Knudson works with the Curiosity rover to explore Mars — from about 250 million miles away.

Christine Knudson Uses Earthly Experience to Study Martian Geology - NASA

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At the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Milan this week, ESA signed a contract for Element #1, the first phase of the HydRON Demonstration System.

HydRON: Optical (laser-based) satellites for faster data sharing in space

At the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Milan this week, ESA signed a contract for Element #1, the first phase of the HydRON Demonstration System.
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With the initial images from each of the instruments aboard ESA’s EarthCARE satellite now in hand, it's time to reveal how these four advanced sensors work in synergy to measure exactly how clouds and aerosols influence the heating and cooling of our…

EarthCARE synergy reveals power of clouds and aerosols

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Coral reefs cover only 1% of the ocean floor, but support an estimated 25% of all marine life in the ocean, earning them the moniker ‘rainforest of the sea.’ They also play a critical role for coastal communities; preventing coastal erosion, protecting coastlines from hurricane damage, and generating $36 billion in annual income worldwide. We […]

What is a Coral Reef? - NASA

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Researchers verified that 3D micro-computed tomography scans can map the orientation of plant roots in space and used the method to demonstrate that carrots grown in actual and simulated microgravity both had random root orientation. These findings suggest that simulated microgravity offers a reliable and more affordable tool for studying plant adaptation to spaceflight. MULTI-TROP evaluated the role of […]

Station Science Top News: Oct. 11, 2024 - NASA

Researchers verified that 3D micro-computed tomography scans can map the orientation of plant roots in space and used the method to demonstrate that carrots
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Dr. Rickey J. Shyne, director of Research and Engineering at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, has been named one of Crain’s Cleveland Business’ 2024 Notable Black Leaders. Shyne is responsible for leading a staff of approximately 1,100 engineers and scientists, and managing research and development in propulsion, communications, power, and materials and structures for extreme […]

Dr. Rickey Shyne, Crain’s Notable Black Leader

Dr. Rickey Shyne, NASA Glenn Research Center’s director of Research and Engineering, has been named one of Crain’s Cleveland Business’ 2024 Notable Black Leaders. 
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Great Lakes Science Center, home of the visitor center for NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, hosted the final phase of NASA’s Watts on the Moon Challenge on Sept. 20. NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen attended to help acknowledge the top winners. NASA awarded a total of $1.5 million to two U.S. teams for their novel […]

Watts on the Moon Winners

NASA Awards $1.5 million in the Watts on the Moon Competition hosted at Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland.
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The Ohio State University (OSU) teamed up with NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland for a multi-faceted tribute to NASA on Sept 21. During a home football game against Marshall University, OSU’s Marching Band recognized the agency with a NASA-themed halftime show, in-game salute, and tribute to Glenn and two alums who play significant roles […]

Ohio State Band Plays NASA Tribute

The Ohio State University Marching Band recognized NASA with a spectacular half-time show and in-game tribute.
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NASA’s Glenn Research Center Director Dr. Jimmy Kenyon met with students and faculty at Morehead State University (MSU) in Kentucky on Sept. 19. Kenyon provided the keynote address on the topic of NASA’s exploration efforts and regional economic impact during the ASTRA-Con (Appalachian Space Technology & Research Advancement Conference). He also moderated a panel, which […]

Center Director Visits Morehead 

Dr. Jimmy Kenyon talked with students and faculty during a conference and tour at Morehead State University.
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NASA’s Glenn Research Center participated in the Cleveland Ingenuity Fest 2024: Take Flight on Sept. 27-29. Ingenuity Fest, held at the 300,000-square-foot Hamilton Collaborative, features artwork, musicians, dancers, poets, and performances of all types. It also highlights maker and innovator exhibits, fine art, and more. NASA Glenn’s staff shared opportunities for the community to engage […]

Technology and Ingenuity Connect

NASA Glenn shares the NASA mission and invites creativity at Cleveland’s Ingenuity Fest.
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The Harvest Moon refers to the nearest full Moon to the autumnal equinox. The Moon appeared full for about three days last month from the evening of Monday, Sept. 16, through Thursday morning, Sept. 19. The brightest Moon was on Sept. 17. NASA’s Glenn Research Center photographers captured images of this supermoon as it shone across […]

Shine On, Harvest Moon

Photographers captured images of a supermoon as it shone across Cleveland.
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Three of the four astronauts who will venture around the Moon on Artemis II, the first crewed flight paving the way for future lunar surface missions, visited NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Sept. 10-11. NASA Glenn is an integral part of the development of the Orion spacecraft and a leader in propulsion, power, and […]

Astronauts Venture to Glenn

Glenn welcomes three of the four astronauts who will venture around the Moon on Artemis II.
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Science in Space: October 2024 Cultures around the world celebrate Halloween on Oct 31. In many places, in addition to people wearing costumes and eating candy, this day is associated with spooky decorating using fake blood, skeletons, flies, and spiders, some of them glow-in-the-dark. Crew members on the International Space Station have been known to […]

Spooky on the Space Station - NASA

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In a teleconference with reporters on Tuesday, representatives from NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the international Solar Cycle Prediction Panel announced that the Sun has reached its solar maximum period, which could continue for the next year. The solar cycle is a natural cycle the Sun goes through as it transitions […]

NASA, NOAA: Sun Reaches Maximum Phase in 11-Year Solar Cycle - NASA Science

In a teleconference with reporters on Tuesday, representatives from NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the international Solar Cycle Prediction Panel announced that the Sun has reached its solar maximum period, whic…
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A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft lifts off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. Europa Clipper is the first mission designed to conduct a detailed study of Jupiter’s moon Europa to determine if it currently has habitable conditions. The spacecraft will travel 1.8 billion miles […]

Europa Clipper Begins Journey to Jupiter’s Icy Moon - NASA

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NASA’s ambitious Cassini mission to Saturn in the late 1990s was one of the agency’s greatest accomplishments, providing unprecedented revelations about the esoteric outer planet and its moons. The complex undertaking was also a tremendous, yet bittersweet, achievement for the Lewis Research Center (today, NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland), which oversaw the rockets that […]

Cassini Mission: 5 Things to Know About NASA Lewis’ Last Launch

NASA Lewis (today, NASA Glenn in Cleveland) oversaw the rockets that propelled the Cassini mission to Saturn. It was the center’s 119th and final launch.
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With contributions from NASA, the mission will map a third of the sky in order to study a cosmic mystery called dark energy. ESA (the European Space Agency) has released a new, 208-gigapixel mosaic of images taken by Euclid, a mission with NASA contributions that launched in 2023 to study why the universe is expanding […]

Snippet of Euclid Mission’s Cosmic Atlas Released by ESA - NASA

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Dark Energy and Dark Matter are both fudge factors to make a Cosmological model, the Big Model, work, when it in fact does not agree with observations in at least half a dozen areas.
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Continuing his efforts to deepen international collaboration and promote the peaceful use of space, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will travel to Romania and Bulgaria, beginning Thursday, Oct. 17. Both countries have signed the Artemis Accords, a set of commonsense principles to commit to the peaceful exploration of space. Nelson will meet with key government and […]

NASA Administrator to Visit, Engage Officials in Romania, Bulgaria - NASA

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Making the most of a solar eclipse demands attention to detail. Do you have what it takes? NASA’s Eclipse Megamovie project launched a new coding competition, and they need your help to organize images from the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse. This is your chance to make a lasting contribution to solar science! The […]

Eclipse Megamovie Coding Competition - NASA Science

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On 15 October 2024, ESA’s Euclid space mission reveals the first piece of its great map of the Universe, showing millions of stars and galaxies.

Zoom into the first page of ESA Euclid’s great cosmic atlas

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Siamo pronti ad attaccare il DDL Varchi nei tribunali

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The study of X-ray emission from astronomical objects reveals secrets about the Universe at the largest and smallest spatial scales. Celestial X-rays are produced by black holes consuming nearby stars, emitted by the million-degree gas that traces the structure between galaxies, and can be used to predict whether stars may be able to host planets […]

Revealing the Hidden Universe with Full-shell X-ray Optics at NASA MSFC - NASA Science

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IAC 2024 - Day 2

IAC 2024 - Day 2

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This week, at the International Aeronautics Congress in Milan, ESA officially kicked off a new project called Ciseres, a small satellite mission designed to significantly improve crisis response times using artificial intelligence (AI).

Ciseres: AI-powered satellites for rapid disaster response  

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ESA has awarded a contract valued at over €280 million to OHB in Germany to build ESA’s two Harmony Earth Explorer satellites.

Contract secures build for ESA’s Harmony mission

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Imagine a near future where services such as satellite navigation, video conferencing, and file sharing are as seamless on the Moon as they are on Earth.

ESA's Moonlight programme: Pioneering the path for lunar exploration 

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In an era where natural disasters and emergencies are becoming increasingly frequent and severe, ESA is taking a significant step forward in enhancing Europe's crisis management capabilities.

Revolutionising crisis response in Europe with Safeplace 

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Comet C/2023 A3 brightens SOHO’s week

Comet C/2023 A3 brightens SOHO’s week

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At the end of 2022, 65 percent of the Western United States was in severe drought, the result of a two decades long mega drought in the Colorado River Basin that had captured headlines around the world. However, it was flooding, not drought, that was making headlines when we began our research for this story […]

OpenET: Balancing Water Supply and Demand in the West - NASA

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Look up "dust bowl", droughts happen, even in 1935 before CO2 was significantly higher than pre-industrial times.
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NASA’s Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with an enormous subsurface ocean that may have conditions to support life. The spacecraft launched at 12:06 p.m. EDT Monday aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. […]

Liftoff! NASA’s Europa Clipper Sails Toward Ocean Moon of Jupiter - NASA

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Zero Debris Charter goes intercontinental

Zero Debris Charter goes intercontinental

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IAC 2024 - Day 1

IAC 2024 - Day 1

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ESA has taken another important step on the road towards sustainability in space with its first in-orbit servicing mission RISE. A €119 million contract was signed with D-Orbit as the co-funding prime contractor.

ESA to build first in-orbit servicing mission with D-Orbit

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ESA’s Hera mission for planetary defence has taken its first images using three of the instruments that will be used to explore and study the asteroids Dimorphos and Didymos.

Hera’s first images offer parting glimpse of Earth and Moon

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Felipe Valdez is someone who took advantage of every possible opportunity at NASA, working his way from undergraduate intern to his current job as a flight controls engineer. Born in the United States but raised in Mexico, Valdez faced significant challenges growing up. “My mom worked long hours, my dad battled addiction, and eventually, school […]

NASA Spotlight: Felipe Valdez, an Inspiring Engineer - NASA

Felipe Valdez took advantage of every possible opportunity at NASA, working his way from undergraduate intern to his current job as a flight controls engineer. 
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Do you care about Free Software but still end up using WhatsApp for your messaging needs?

If yes, then #prav is for you😃. Learn more at https://fsf.org.in/article/prav/

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Earth planning date: Friday, Oct. 11, 2024 This blogger is in the United Kingdom, just north of London, where we yesterday had beautiful night skies with a red aurora that was even visible with the unaided eye, and looked stunning on photographs. That reminded me of the solar storm that made it all the way […]

Sols 4331-4333: Today’s Rover ABC – Aurora, Backwards Driving, and Chemistry, with a Side of Images - NASA Science

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Find details about the launch sequences for the orbiter, which is targeting an Oct. 14 liftoff on its mission to search for ingredients of life at Jupiter’s moon Europa. In less than 24 hours, NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is slated to launch from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket. […]

Journey to a Water World: NASA’s Europa Clipper Is Ready to Launch - NASA

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While in Milan for international meetings, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson was among the witnesses as Estonia signed the Artemis Accords and became the 45th nation to join the United States and other signatories agreeing to the safe, transparent, and responsible exploration of the Moon, Mars, and beyond. The signing ceremony took place ahead of Italy […]

NASA Welcomes Estonia as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory - NASA

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Growing up in Puerto Rico, Yomayra Cruz-Diaz didn’t imagine that one day she would work at NASA. Today, she serves as technical project coordinator at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia, supporting its Aeronautics Research Directorate. Cruz-Diaz’s position requires her to travel in support of public engagement events and recently she supported NASA’s presence at […]

A Serendipitous NASA Family Reunion - NASA

Growing up in Puerto Rico, Yomayra Cruz-Diaz didn’t imagine that one day she would work as a NASA Aeronautics technical project coordinator.
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