NASA Is Locating Ice on Mars With This New Map
Buried ice will be a vital resource for the first people to set foot on Mars, serving as drinking water and a key ingredient for…
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How NASA Is Protecting Europa Clipper From Space Radiation
When NASA’s Europa Clipper begins orbiting Jupiter to investigate whether its ice-encased moon, Europa, has conditions suitable for life, the spacecraft will pass repeatedly through…
NASA’s Voyager Team Focuses on Software Patch, Thrusters
Engineers for NASA’s Voyager mission are taking steps to help make sure both spacecraft, launched in 1977, continue to explore interstellar space for years to…
International Ocean Satellite Monitors How El Niño Is Shaping Up
Not all El Niño events are created equal. Their impacts vary widely, and satellites like the U.S.-European Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich help anticipate those impacts on…
Webb Detects Tiny Quartz Crystals in Clouds of Hot Gas Giant
Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have detected evidence for quartz nanocrystals in the high-altitude clouds of WASP-17 b, a hot Jupiter exoplanet 1,300…
NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft, Optical Comms Demo En Route to Asteroid
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is on its voyage to an asteroid of the same name, a metal-rich world that could tell us more about the formation…
Journey to a Metal-Rich World: NASA’s Psyche Is Ready to Launch
In less than 24 hours, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is slated to launch from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. With its sights set on…
5 Things to Know About NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications
NASA’s pioneering Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment will be the first demonstration of laser, or optical, communications from as far away as Mars. Launching…
NASA’s Webb Captures an Ethereal View of NGC 346
One of the greatest strengths of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is its ability to give astronomers detailed views of areas where new stars are…
6 Things to Know About NASA’s Asteroid-Exploring Psyche Mission
With a launch readiness date set for Friday, Oct. 13, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will travel 2.2 billion miles from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida…