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The latest United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) concluded in November without a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels and without significant progress in strengthening national pledges to reduce climate-altering greenhouse gas emissions. In aggregate, today’s climate policies remain far too unambitious to meet the Paris Agreement’s goal of capping global warming atContinue Reading

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“We’re here to talk about really substantive changes, and we want you to be a participant in that,” said Desirée Plata, the School of Engineering Distinguished Professor of Climate and Energy in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, at Energizing@MIT: the MIT Energy Initiative’s (MITEI) Annual Research Conference thatContinue Reading

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Explore Mars In Depth Mars Home Facts Mars Exploration Overview Rover Basics Mars Exploration Science Goals Mission Timeline Summary Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey Mars Relay Network More Mars Missions Multimedia Images Video Audio More Resources News &Continue Reading

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Daniel Phoenix Senior Data Scientist, Contractor, Lidar Sciences Branch, Science Directorate, NASA Langley Research Center About Daniel Phoenix earned his Ph.D. in meteorology from the University of Oklahoma in 2019. His dissertation topic focused on utilizing numerical simulations to understand the effects of tropopause-overshooting thunderstorms on the chemical composition ofContinue Reading

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4 Min Read NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Wraps Up Space Station Science NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission with agency astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov returned to Earth after a long-duration mission aboard the International Space Station. During theirContinue Reading

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Shan Kowalski Research Scientist, Contractor, Lidar Sciences Branch, Science Directorate, NASA Langley Research Center About Dr. Shan Kowalski is scientific researcher at NASA Langley Research Center and a mom of two girls. She obtained her M.S. (2007) and Ph.D (2011) in atmosphere science in France. In her M.S. project, sheContinue Reading

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International Summer School in Astrobiology The Josep Comas i Solà International Astrobiology Summer School is held annually in Santander, Spain. The Josep Comas i Solà International Summer School in Astrobiology is co-directed by the NASA Astrobiology Program and the Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), INTA-CSIC, at the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP), sponsored byContinue Reading

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Artist’s concept of the TRAPPIST-1 system, which is known to have seven Earth-sized rocky planets orbiting a red dwarf star. Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) View Image Details/Downloads After scientists using the ground-based Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) spotted what looked like three planets orbiting aContinue Reading

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Physics of the Cosmos … Physics of the Cosmos Community GR SIG Seminar, 23… About Community Program Analysis Group (PhysPAG) Science Groups News & Events Cosmic Pathfinders Science Gaps Opportunities Missions Studies News & Events Resources   GR SIG Seminar Gamma Ray Science Interest Group GR SIG about GR SIGContinue Reading