Autonomous Systems Help NASA’s Perseverance Do More Science on Mars
In about a third of the time it would have taken other NASA Mars rovers, Perseverance recently navigated its way through a field of boulders…
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NASA Releases Independent Review’s Mars Sample Return Report
An Independent Review Board (IRB) looked at NASA’s current plans and goals of the first mission to return samples from Mars, and NASA is establishing…
Water-Watching Satellite Monitors Warming Ocean off California Coast
Warm ocean waters from the developing El Niño are shifting north along coastlines in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Along the coast of California, these warm…
Venus on Earth: NASA’s VERITAS Science Team Studies Volcanic Iceland
With its crushing atmospheric pressure, clouds of sulfuric acid, and searing surface temperature, Venus is an especially challenging place to study. But scientists know that…
NASA’s Curiosity Reaches Mars Ridge Where Water Left Debris Pileup
Three billion years ago, amid one of the last wet periods on Mars, powerful debris flows carried mud and boulders down the side of a…
NASA to Discuss Optical Communications Demo Riding With Psyche
NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Sept. 20, to discuss the agency’s first test of high-bandwidth optical communications beyond…
NASA-Built Greenhouse Gas Detector Moves Closer to Launch
A state-of-the-art imaging spectrometer, which will measure the greenhouse gases methane and carbon dioxide from space, moved closer to launch this month after being delivered…
NASA’s Psyche Mission on Track for Liftoff Next Month
The spacecraft’s solar arrays are folded like an envelope into their stowed position. Xenon gas – fuel for the journey to the asteroid belt –…
NASA’s Oxygen-Generating Experiment MOXIE Completes Mars Mission
When the first astronauts land on Mars, they may have the descendants of a microwave-oven-size device to thank for the air they breathe and the…
NASA Scientists Test New Tool for Tracking Algal Blooms
By the time they were over, a series of massive algal blooms along the west coast of Florida in 2020 would be linked to some…