A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the company’s Dragon spacecraft atop, stands in a vertical position at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 21, 2024. SpaceX NASA and SpaceX now are targeting no earlier than 6:50 p.m. EDT Wednesday, May 13, for the company’s 34th commercialContinue Reading
At a busy airport, every aircraft in the area shares just a handful of radio frequencies. Spectrum and time are constrained and if multiple people speak at once, both messages can get lost. Communications like “clearance delivery,” which require long transmissions and readbacks, are challenging in high-traffic areas, particularly whenContinue Reading
Astronaut Jessica Meir processes samples of heart stem cells and bacteria that cause pneumonia using a portable glovebag inside the International Space Station’s Harmony module. NASA/Chris Williams SpaceX CRS-34, the next cargo mission to resupply the International Space Station, is counting down to its launch at 7:16 p.m. EDT today,Continue Reading
‘If you don’t have clean water, you really don’t have anything.’ The post Colorado’s Arkansas Valley water confronts contamination, climate change and political drama appeared first on High Country News.Continue Reading
Marta Segura stepped into the new role in 2022 amid a dramatic increase in climate-fueled heat events.Continue Reading
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS NASA’s Perseverance rover recently took a self-portrait against a sweeping backdrop of ancient Martian terrain at a location the science team calls “Lac de Charmes.” Assembled from 61 individual images, the selfie shows Perseverance training its mast on a rocky outcrop in the foreground after creating a circular abrasionContinue Reading
6 min read NASA’s Perseverance Rover Snaps Selfie in Mars’ Western Frontier To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video NASA’s Perseverance looks down at a rocky outcrop nicknamed “Arethusa” and then appears to look into the camera in thisContinue Reading
1 Min Read NASA’s Perseverance Captures Panorama at ‘Arbot’ PIA26753 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal NASA’s Perseverance Captures… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About Downloads NASA’s Perseverance Captures Panorama at ‘Arbot’ PNG (132.21 MB) PIA26753 Figure A PNG (117.68 MB) PIA26753 Figure B PNGContinue Reading
2 Min Read NASA’s Perseverance Rover Snaps Westernmost Selfie PIA26752 Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal NASA’s Perseverance Rover… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About Downloads NASA’s Perseverance Rover Snaps Westernmost Selfie PNG (178.16 MB) PIA26752 Figure A PNG (178.92 MB) PIA26752 Animation (.gif) GIF (3.55 MB)Continue Reading
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Researchers believe the portable system, the first of its kind in Puerto Rico, can be an essential resource for places that have long lacked reliable access to clean drinking water. Story and photos by Sarah Mattalian Reporting for this story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Sarah Mattalian is aContinue Reading
A recently developed ultra-black coating not only efficiently absorbs light, but is also extremely thin and durable, enabling its potential use on starshades that could someday support the imaging of exoplanets and potentially facilitate the detection of life beyond our solar system. Artist’s conception of a starshade (a disk surroundedContinue Reading
Scientists revisiting mysterious 540-million-year-old microfossils from Brazil have overturned a major idea about early animal life. What were once thought to be trails left behind by tiny worm-like creatures are now believed to be fossilized communities of bacteria and algae — some with remarkably preserved cells and organic material stillContinue Reading