curiosity-blog,-sols-4920-4926:-surveying-the-bands

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Mars Home 3 minContinue Reading

nasa-mission-to-study-space-weather-impacts-of-earth’s-atmosphere

Artist’s rendition of the DAPHNE (Dynamic Atmosphere-Ionosphere Explorer) mission concept. The coloring represents auroras and atmospheric waves in Earth’s atmosphere. Credit: Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics/Mary Tostanoski NASA selected a mission concept to research how space weather and dynamics within Earth’s atmosphere influence the space environment and help improveContinue Reading

nasa-awards-contract-for-commercial-satellite-data-acquisition

Credit: NASA NASA has selected eight new companies and will acquire new data products from six existing Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition contract holders to expand the range of commercial satellite data available to researchers, civil agencies, and decision-makers. Such measurements supplement NASA’s Earth satellites by contributing high-resolution and frequent observationsContinue Reading

from-suriname-to-space:-rohit-goeptar-shares-his-journey-to-nasa

Rohit Goeptar, an electromagnetic/radio frequency analyst with NASA’s Launch Services Program at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, reviews a radio frequency link budget analysis for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from his office. Goeptar is among the engineers and technicians sworn in as new NASA civil servantsContinue Reading

nasa-testing-advanced-capabilities-for-moon,-mars-rovers

Developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ERNEST (Exploration Rover for Navigating Extreme Sloped Terrain) is used in a desert field test to help refine mobility hardware and autonomy software that could be used for a potential future long-range lunar rover mission. During the field test, which took place in MarchContinue Reading

desert-field-test-with-nasa-advanced-rover-prototype

2 Min Read Desert Field Test With NASA Advanced Rover Prototype PIA26701 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal Desert Field Test With NASA… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads Desert Field Test With NASA Advanced Rover Prototype PNG (27.94 MB) PIA26701 Figure A JPEGContinue Reading

nasa’s-lucy-reveals-wobbling,-peanut-shaped-asteroid

Even small asteroids lead complex lives. During its flyby of the asteroid Donaldjohanson last year, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft revealed the asteroid to be a wobbly, peanut-shaped body that has undergone a lot of activity in its relatively short history. Formed as fragments coalesced after a violent collision 155 million years ago, theContinue Reading

advanced-tech-on-station-informing-space-designed-health-treatments

Astronauts, from left, Jessica Meir and Sophie Adenot show off a Cygnus mission sticker for Northrop Grumman’s 24th cargo mission to the International Space Station. NASA/Chris Williams The Expedition 74 crew explored how weightlessness affects cartilage growth and the digestive system on Thursday to protect crew health and improve patientContinue Reading