SWOT Satellite Helps Gauge the Depth of Death Valley’s Temporary Lake
California’s Death Valley, the driest place in North America, has hosted an ephemeral lake since late 2023. A NASA-led analysis recently calculated water depths in…
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NASA Invites Media to Mars Sample Return Update
NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT (10 a.m. PDT), Monday, April 15, to discuss the agency’s response to a Mars Sample…
Media Get Close-Up of NASA’s Jupiter-Bound Europa Clipper
Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California are running final tests and preparing the agency’s Europa Clipper spacecraft for the next leg of…
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Announces 3 Personnel Appointments
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is pleased to announce three key staff appointments, naming Keyur Patel the associate director for Flight Projects and Mission Success, Howard…
NASA’s NEOWISE Extends Legacy With Decade of Near-Earth Object Data
NASA’s NEOWISE mission has released its 10th year of infrared data – the latest in a unique long-duration (or “time-domain”) survey that captures how celestial…
How NASA Spotted El Niño Changing the Saltiness of Coastal Waters
After helping stoke record heat in 2023 and drenching major swaths of the United States this winter, the current El Niño is losing steam this…
Rock Sampled by NASA’s Perseverance Embodies Why Rover Came to Mars
Analysis by instruments aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover indicate that the latest rock core taken by the rover was awash in water for an extended…
NASA Receives 13 Nominations for the 28th 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 Curiosity Searches for New Clues About Mars’ Ancient Water
NASA’s Curiosity rover has begun exploring a new region of Mars, one that could reveal more about when liquid water disappeared once and for all…
NASA’s Europa Clipper Survives and Thrives in ‘Outer Space’ on Earth
In less than six months, NASA is set to launch Europa Clipper on a 1.6-billion-mile (2.6-billion-kilometer) voyage to Jupiter’s ocean moon Europa. From the wild…