NASA Mission Excels at Spotting Greenhouse Gas Emission Sources
More than a year after first detecting methane plumes from its perch aboard the International Space Station, data from NASA’s EMIT instrument is now being…
Month: November 2023
NASA’s Deep Space Optical Comm Demo Sends, Receives First Data
NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment has beamed a near-infrared laser encoded with test data from nearly 10 million miles (16 million kilometers) away…
Webb Follows Neon Signs Toward New Thinking on Planet Formation
Scientists are following neon signs in a search for clues to one planetary system’s future and the past of another – our own solar system.…
NASA’s Cold Atom Lab Sets Stage for Quantum Chemistry in Space
For the first time in space, scientists have produced a quantum gas containing two types of atoms. Accomplished with NASA’s Cold Atom Laboratory aboard the…
NASA Data Reveals Possible Reason Some Exoplanets Are Shrinking
Some exoplanets seem to be losing their atmospheres and shrinking. In a new study using NASA’s retired Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers find evidence of a…
CUBIST S7E4: Can Blast Exposure Throughout a Military Career Impact TBI Recovery?
In this episode of CUBIST, Dr. Don Marion and new host, Dr. Keith Stuessi, discuss a study entitled "Cumulative Blast Exposure During a Military Ca…
Trailblazing New Earth Satellite Put to Test in Preparation for Launch
NISAR, the trailblazing Earth-observing radar satellite being developed by the United States and Indian space agencies, passed a major milestone on Nov. 13, emerging from…
Time Is Running Out to Add Your Name to NASA’s Europa Clipper
It’s not every day that members of the public have the chance to send their names into deep space beyond Mars, all the way to…
NASA’s Mars Fleet Will Still Conduct Science While Lying Low
NASA will hold off sending commands to its Mars fleet for two weeks, from Nov. 11 to 25, while Earth and the Red Planet are…
Construction on NASA Mission to Map 450 Million Galaxies Is Under Way
NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope is beginning to look much like it will when it arrives in Earth orbit and starts mapping the entire sky. Short…