A Decade of Exploring Alaska’s Mountain Glaciers
by In Alaska, five percent of the land is covered by glaciers that are contributing to sea level rise in ways disproportionately large to their size. …
Month: March 2019
PIA23090: Arabia Terra Craters – False Color
Target: Mars Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey Instrument: THEMIS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Source:: updates
Prescribed Fires in U.S. Pop Up Ahead of Fire Season
Prescribed fires dot the landscape in this Suomi NPP satellite image of the mid and eastern U.S. on March 28, 2019. Source:: Goddard
Apollo 11 Footsteps
Relive the Apollo 11 surface traverse with the new upgrade to the LROC Featured Sites Source:: Goddard
Hubble Spots Flock of Cosmic Ducks
This star-studded image shows us a portion of Messier 11, an open star cluster in the southern constellation of Scutum (the Shield). Messier 11 is …
PIA23102: Lake Karakul, Tajikistan
Target: Earth Mission: Terra Instrument: ASTER Image Credit: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team Source:: updates
NASA Student Launch Teams Roll to the Pad in Huntsville
It is time for the participants of NASA’s Student Launch competition hosted by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, to head to the …
PIA23162: Prepping for a Mars Helicopter Test
Mission: Mars 2020 Rover Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Source:: updates
PIA23161: Monitoring the Mars Helicopter
Mission: Mars 2020 Rover Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Source:: updates
PIA23159: Mars Helicopter Prototype
Mission: Mars 2020 Rover Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Source:: updates
High School Senior Uncovers Potential for Hundreds of Earth-Like Planets in Kepler Data
An 18-year-old high school senior has won a $250,000 prize for calculating the potential for finding more planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, using …
Calculated Thicknesses of Volcanically Derived Water Ice Deposits at the Lunar Poles
Abstract: Overview – What we know: Volcanically derived volatiles; Timing of volatile release; Current observations of lunar polar volatiles – How volatiles migrated on the …
The Lunar Geophysical Network Mission
Abstract: Overarching Principles: Must be better than Apollo (coverage, duration, instrument performance); Learn from the Apollo experience. Lunar Geophysical Network (LGN) New Frontiers (NF)-class mission, …
Freezing Damage to Coolers at the NASA-GRC 10×10 Supersonic Wind Tunnel
Abstract: Two large finned-tube heat exchangers at the NASA-GRC 10×10 SWT experienced significant freezing damage in January 2018. A recap of the incident, causes and …
The Multi-GNSS Space Service Volume (SSV): USA ICG Support and Space User Applications
Abstract: This introductory presentation discusses US contributions to the United Nations International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems publication “The Interoperable Global Navigation Satellite Systems …
NASA Television to Broadcast Launch, Docking of Space Station Cargo Ship
A Russian Progress cargo ship is scheduled to launch on a three-hour flight to the International Space Station Thursday, April 4. Source:: updates 5
Hubble Watches Spun-Up Asteroid Coming Apart
A small asteroid was caught in the process of spinning so fast it’s throwing off material, according to new data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope …
Hubble Watches Spun-Up Asteroid Coming Apart
Astronomers once thought asteroids were boring, wayward space rocks that simply orbit around the Sun. Now, a small asteroid has been caught in the process …
Spacewalk Reassignments: What’s the Deal?
On Friday, March 29, Christina Koch and Anne McClain were scheduled to perform a spacewalk together to upgrade the power systems of the International Space …
The Voyage to Interstellar Space
More than four decades after launch — having first traversed the solar system and provided scientists with a grand tour of our planets — Voyager …
PIA23132: Lunar Flashlight from Above (Artist’s Concept)
Mission: CubeSat Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Source:: updates
PIA23131: Lunar Flashlight (Artist’s Concept)
Mission: CubeSat Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Source:: updates
Bennu in Stereo
This set of stereoscopic images provides a 3D view of the large, 170-foot (52-meter) boulder that juts from asteroid Bennu’s southern hemisphere and the rocky …
PIA23121: Space Butterfly
Mission: Spitzer Space Telescope Instrument: IRAC Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Source:: updates
This Week in NASA History: Installation of S-IC-D in Vertical Assembly Building at Michoud – March 24, 1965
This week in 1965, technicians at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility installed the S-IC-D thrust structure in the Vertical Assembly Building. Source:: updates 2
PIA23088: Acidalia Planitia – False Color
Target: Mars Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey Instrument: THEMIS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Source:: updates
Joan Stupik, Guidance and Control Engineer
When Joan Stupik was a child, her parents bought her a mini-planetarium that she could use to project the stars on her bedroom ceiling. Source:: …
50 Years After Apollo, NASA Celebrates 25 Years of Student Rover Competition
As NASA marks 50 years of lunar discovery, nearly 100 student teams from around the world will converge April 12-13 on Huntsville, Alabama, to compete …
NASA Administrator Statement on Return to Moon in Next Five Years
The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on Tuesday’s announcement by Vice President Mike Pence, at the fifth meeting of the National …
Landsat 9 Thermal Infrared Sensor 2 Preliminary Stray Light Assessment
Abstract: No abstract available Source:: nasa sit 2
Titanium-in-Quartz Geothermometry of Impactites and Peak-Ring Lithologies from the Chicxulub Impact Crater
Abstract: Since its development by Wark and Watson (2006), the Ti-in-quartz geothermometer (TitaniQ) has been continuously refined and applied to a variety of lithologies from …
Remarkable Diversity of Refractory Inclusions in the Miller Range 090019 CO3.1 Chondrite
Abstract: We have characterized the mineralogy, textures, bulk compositions, modal abundances and some mineral compositions in a suite of approximately 140 refractory inclusions from the …
Characterization of Firefly, an Imaging Spectrometer Designed for Airborne Measurements of Solar-Induced Fluorescence
Abstract: FIREFLY (Fluorescence Imaging of REd and Far-red Light Yield) is a compact, fine-resolution imaging spectrometer that was designed and assembled by Headwall Photonics (Fitchburg, …
PIA23087: Elysium Planitia – False Color
Target: Mars Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey Instrument: THEMIS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Source:: updates
Help NASA Measure Trees with Your Smartphone
A new smartphone-based project allows people to document the trees around them in order to learn more about their environment and provide valuable data to …
Orion Launch Abort System Attitude Control Motor Hot-Fire Test
A static hot-fire test of the Orion spacecraft’s Launch Abort System Attitude Control Motor to help qualify the motor for human spaceflight, to help ensure …
Space Station Science Highlights: Week of March 18, 2019
Last week on the International Space Station, Expedition 58 crew members were joined by those of Expedition 59. Once again at a full complement of …
NASA Updates Spacewalk Assignments, Announces Final Preview Briefing
With the first in a series of three spacewalks successfully completed at the International Space Station, NASA has updated astronaut assignments for the remaining two …
NASA Television to Broadcast Fifth Meeting of the National Space Council
NASA Television and the agency’s website will provide live coverage of the fifth meeting of the National Space Council starting at 1 p.m. EDT Tuesday, …
NASA Selects Three Additional Informal Learning Institutions to Engage Learners in its Mission
NASA’s Teams Engaging Affiliated Museums and Informal Institutions (TEAM II) has selected three additional informal education organizations to supplement the initial group selected in June …