NASA’s Deep Space Network Starts New Dish, Marks 60 Years in Australia
NASA’s Deep Space Network facility in Canberra, Australia celebrated its 60th anniversary on March 19 while also breaking ground on a new radio antenna. The…
Category: Marstronaut
Perseverance Rover Witnesses One Martian Dust Devil Eating Another
A Martian dust devil can be seen consuming a smaller one in this short video made of images taken by a navigation camera aboard NASA’s…
NASA Receives 10 Nominations for the 29th Annual Webby Awards
Since it began in 1958, NASA has been charged by law with spreading the word about its work to the widest extent practicable. From typewritten…
NASA’s SPHEREx Takes First Images, Preps to Study Millions of Galaxies
NASA’s SPHEREx (short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) has turned on its detectors for the first…
University High Triumphs at JPL-Hosted Ocean Sciences Bowl
A team of students from University High School in Irvine earned first place at a fast-paced regional academic competition focused on ocean science disciplines and…
How NASA’s Perseverance Is Helping Prepare Astronauts for Mars
NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars in 2021 to search for signs of ancient microbial life and to help scientists understand the planet’s climate and…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Detects Largest Organic Molecules Found on Mars
Scientists analyzing pulverized rock onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover have found the largest organic compounds on the Red Planet to date. The finding, published Monday in…
NASA Takes to the Air to Study Wildflowers
NASA research is revealing there’s more to flowers than meets the human eye. A recent analysis of wildflowers in California shows how aircraft- and space-based…
Next-Generation Water Satellite Maps Seafloor From Space
There are better maps of the Moon’s surface than of the bottom of Earth’s ocean. Researchers have been working for decades to change that. As…
ESA Previews Euclid Mission’s Deep View of ‘Dark Universe’
The Euclid mission — led by ESA (European Space Agency) with contributions from NASA — aims to find out why our universe is expanding at…