4 months ago
In Memoriam: Dr. Richard S. Stolarski [1941–2024]
Renowned ozone scientist Dr. Richard Rich Stolarski died on February 22, 2024, at age 82 from the complications of prostate cancer. Rich was born at Fort Lewis, WA on November 22, 1941. After short stays in Kansas and Hawaii, Richs family settled in Tacoma, WA. He attended Stadium High School for three years and Wilson . https://science.nasa.gov/u...#nasa #space #news #nasa_uncategorized #nasa_asteroids #nasa_general #nasa_the_solar_system #nasa_stennis_space_center #nasa_blogs #nasa_spinoffs #nasa_technology_transfer #nasa_earth 's_moon #nasa_artemis #nasa_lunar_science #nasa_planetary_science #nasa_science_instruments #nasa_apollo_10 #nasa_eugene_a ._cernan #nasa_john_w ._young #nasa_thomas_p ._stafford #nasa_exoplanet_science #nasa_exoplanet_transits #nasa_exoplanets #nasa_radial_velocity
4 months ago
Summary of the Fifty-Second U.S.–Japan ASTER Science Team Meeting
Michael Abrams, NASAJet Propulsion LaboratoryCalifornia Institute of Technology, mjabramsjpl.nasa.gov Yasushi Yamaguchi, Nagoya UniversityJapan Science and Technology Agency, yasushinagoya-u.jp Introduction The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer ASTER Science Team ST organized a three-day workshop that took place September 1113, 2023, at the offices of Japan Space Systems JSS in Tokyo. Over 40 people from . https://science.nasa.gov/u...#nasa #space #news #nasa_uncategorized #nasa_asteroids #nasa_general #nasa_the_solar_system #nasa_stennis_space_center #nasa_blogs #nasa_spinoffs #nasa_technology_transfer #nasa_earth 's_moon #nasa_artemis #nasa_lunar_science #nasa_planetary_science #nasa_science_instruments #nasa_apollo_10 #nasa_eugene_a ._cernan #nasa_john_w ._young #nasa_thomas_p ._stafford #nasa_exoplanet_science #nasa_exoplanet_transits #nasa_exoplanets #nasa_radial_velocity
4 months ago
NASA Lucy Images Reveal Asteroid Dinkinesh to be Surprisingly Complex
Images from the November 2023 flyby of asteroid Dinkinesh by NASAs Lucy spacecraft show a trough on Dinkinesh where a large piece about a quarter of the asteroid suddenly shifted, a ridge, and a separate contact binary satellite now known as Selam. Scientists say this complicated structure shows that Dinkinesh and Selam have 8230;. https://www.nasa.gov/solar...#nasa #space #news #nasa_uncategorized #nasa_asteroids #nasa_general #nasa_the_solar_system #nasa_stennis_space_center #nasa_blogs #nasa_spinoffs #nasa_technology_transfer #nasa_earth 's_moon #nasa_artemis #nasa_lunar_science #nasa_planetary_science #nasa_science_instruments #nasa_apollo_10 #nasa_eugene_a ._cernan #nasa_john_w ._young #nasa_thomas_p ._stafford #nasa_exoplanet_science #nasa_exoplanet_transits #nasa_exoplanets #nasa_radial_velocity
4 months ago
NASA Stennis Helps Family Build a Generational Legacy
For Lee English Jr., the sound of a ringing phone probably sounds a lot like the roar of a rocket engine test at NASAs Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. During the 1970s, when 9-year-old English Jr. picked up the ringing phone, someone from the south Mississippi test site might say, Tell your 8230;. https://www.nasa.gov/cente...#nasa #space #news #nasa_uncategorized #nasa_asteroids #nasa_general #nasa_the_solar_system #nasa_stennis_space_center #nasa_blogs #nasa_spinoffs #nasa_technology_transfer #nasa_earth 's_moon #nasa_artemis #nasa_lunar_science #nasa_planetary_science #nasa_science_instruments #nasa_apollo_10 #nasa_eugene_a ._cernan #nasa_john_w ._young #nasa_thomas_p ._stafford #nasa_exoplanet_science #nasa_exoplanet_transits #nasa_exoplanets #nasa_radial_velocity
4 months ago
Sols 4199-4201: Driving Through a Puzzle
Earth planning date: Tuesday, May 28, 2024 For the last several months, Curiosity has been steadily climbing through the bedrock layers of the upper sulfate unit. While each stop had its own collection of bedrock blocks tilting one way or another, you could imagine putting each scene back together into one coherent package of layers, . https://science.nasa.gov/b...#nasa #space #news #nasa_uncategorized #nasa_asteroids #nasa_general #nasa_the_solar_system #nasa_stennis_space_center #nasa_blogs #nasa_spinoffs #nasa_technology_transfer #nasa_earth 's_moon #nasa_artemis #nasa_lunar_science #nasa_planetary_science #nasa_science_instruments #nasa_apollo_10 #nasa_eugene_a ._cernan #nasa_john_w ._young #nasa_thomas_p ._stafford #nasa_exoplanet_science #nasa_exoplanet_transits #nasa_exoplanets #nasa_radial_velocity
4 months ago
Tech Today: Measuring the Buzz, Hum, and Rattle
NASA-supported wireless microphone array quickly, cheaply, and accurately maps noise from aircraft, animals, and more.. https://www.nasa.gov/direc...#nasa #space #news #nasa_uncategorized #nasa_asteroids #nasa_general #nasa_the_solar_system #nasa_stennis_space_center #nasa_blogs #nasa_spinoffs #nasa_technology_transfer #nasa_earth 's_moon #nasa_artemis #nasa_lunar_science #nasa_planetary_science #nasa_science_instruments #nasa_apollo_10 #nasa_eugene_a ._cernan #nasa_john_w ._young #nasa_thomas_p ._stafford #nasa_exoplanet_science #nasa_exoplanet_transits #nasa_exoplanets #nasa_radial_velocity
4 months ago
NASA to Measure Moonquakes With Help From InSight Mars Mission
The technology behind the two seismometers that make up NASAs Farside Seismic Suite was used to detect more than a thousand Red Planet quakes. The most sensitive instrument ever built to measure quakes and meteor strikes on other worlds is getting closer to its journey to the mysterious far side of the Moon. Its one 8230;. https://www.nasa.gov/solar...#nasa #space #news #nasa_uncategorized #nasa_asteroids #nasa_general #nasa_the_solar_system #nasa_stennis_space_center #nasa_blogs #nasa_spinoffs #nasa_technology_transfer #nasa_earth 's_moon #nasa_artemis #nasa_lunar_science #nasa_planetary_science #nasa_science_instruments #nasa_apollo_10 #nasa_eugene_a ._cernan #nasa_john_w ._young #nasa_thomas_p ._stafford #nasa_exoplanet_science #nasa_exoplanet_transits #nasa_exoplanets #nasa_radial_velocity
4 months ago
Apollo 10 Ends Successfully
Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, lunar module pilot for the Apollo 10 mission, exits the spacecraft during recovery operations on May 26, 1969. He and the other two crew members already in the raft, Thomas P. Stafford left and John W. Young, were brought to the prime recovery ship, USS Princeton after splashdown. The Apollo 10 8230;. https://www.nasa.gov/image...#nasa #space #news #nasa_apollo_10 #nasa_eugene_a ._cernan #nasa_john_w ._young #nasa_thomas_p ._stafford #nasa_uncategorized #nasa_exoplanet_science #nasa_exoplanet_transits #nasa_exoplanets #nasa_radial_velocity #nasa_astrophysics #nasa_citizen_science #nasa_the_universe #nasa_missions #nasa_iss_research #nasa_apophis #nasa_asteroids #nasa_the_solar_system #nasa_blogs #nasa_nasa_history #nasa_general #nasa_johnson_space_center
4 months ago
Earth Science Information Partners Celebrate 25 Years of Collaboration
Allison Mills, Earth Science Information Partners, allisonmillsesipfed.orgSusan Shingledecker, Earth Science Information Partners, susanshingledeckeresipfed.org Introduction In 2023, the Earth Science Information Partners ESIP community celebrated 25 years since the nonprofits founding. Serving as a home for Earth science data and computing professionals, ESIP has evolved alongside the tools and vast expansion of Earth science data available . https://science.nasa.gov/u...#nasa #space #news #nasa_apollo_10 #nasa_eugene_a ._cernan #nasa_john_w ._young #nasa_thomas_p ._stafford #nasa_uncategorized #nasa_exoplanet_science #nasa_exoplanet_transits #nasa_exoplanets #nasa_radial_velocity #nasa_astrophysics #nasa_citizen_science #nasa_the_universe #nasa_missions #nasa_iss_research #nasa_apophis #nasa_asteroids #nasa_the_solar_system #nasa_blogs #nasa_nasa_history #nasa_general #nasa_johnson_space_center
4 months ago
Discovery Alert: Spock’s Home Planet Goes ‘Poof’
The discovery A planet thought to orbit the star 40 Eridani A host to Mr. Spocks fictional home planet, Vulcan, in the Star Trek universe is really a kind of astronomical illusion caused by the pulses and jitters of the star itself, a new study shows. Key facts The possible detection of a . https://science.nasa.gov/u...#nasa #space #news #nasa_apollo_10 #nasa_eugene_a ._cernan #nasa_john_w ._young #nasa_thomas_p ._stafford #nasa_uncategorized #nasa_exoplanet_science #nasa_exoplanet_transits #nasa_exoplanets #nasa_radial_velocity #nasa_astrophysics #nasa_citizen_science #nasa_the_universe #nasa_missions #nasa_iss_research #nasa_apophis #nasa_asteroids #nasa_the_solar_system #nasa_blogs #nasa_nasa_history #nasa_general #nasa_johnson_space_center
4 months ago
Arizona Students Go on an Exoplanet Watch
Exoplanets, planets outside of our own solar system, hold the keys to finding extraterrestrial life and understanding the origin of our own world. Nowonlinestudents at Arizona State University ASU in a new course calledExoplanet Research Experiencehave become exoplanet scientists by taking part in NASAs Exoplanet Watch project. Fifteen students from ASUs Astronomical and Planetary Sciencesonlinedegree . https://science.nasa.gov/g...#nasa #space #news #nasa_apollo_10 #nasa_eugene_a ._cernan #nasa_john_w ._young #nasa_thomas_p ._stafford #nasa_uncategorized #nasa_exoplanet_science #nasa_exoplanet_transits #nasa_exoplanets #nasa_radial_velocity #nasa_astrophysics #nasa_citizen_science #nasa_the_universe #nasa_missions #nasa_iss_research #nasa_apophis #nasa_asteroids #nasa_the_solar_system #nasa_blogs #nasa_nasa_history #nasa_general #nasa_johnson_space_center
4 months ago
Rae Ann Meyer Named Deputy Director of NASA Marshall
Rae Ann Meyer has been selected as deputy director of NASAs Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, effective June 2. In this role, Meyer will assist in leading Marshalls nearly 7,000 on-site and near-site civil service and contractor employees and an annual budget of approximately 5 billion. She will also help guide the center 8230;. https://www.nasa.gov/cente...#nasa #space #news #nasa_technology_transfer #nasa_technology #nasa_ames_research_center #nasa_artemis #nasa_general #nasa_missions #nasa_nasa_directorates #nasa_astrophysics #nasa_galaxies #nasa_science_ &_research #nasa_the_universe #nasa_andre_douglas #nasa_candidate_astronauts #nasa_kathleen_rubins #nasa_nasa_history #nasa_commercial_crew #nasa_commercial_space #nasa_humans_in_space #nasa_iss_research #nasa_exoplanet_atmosphere #nasa_exoplanet_science #nasa_exoplanet_transits #nasa_exoplanets #nasa_euclid #nasa_black_holes #nasa_dark_energy #nasa_stars
4 months ago
NASA Selects Technology Transfer Services Contractor
NASA has awarded the Consolidated Agency Technology Transfer Services contract to Summit Technologies 38; Solutions, Inc. in Alexandria, Virginia, to provide support for the agencys Technology Transfer Program. The performance-based firm-fixed price contract has a potential mission services value of 26 million and a maximum potential indefinite-deliveryindefinite-quantity value of 55 million. The contract begins on 8230;. https://www.nasa.gov/news-...#nasa #space #news #nasa_technology_transfer #nasa_technology #nasa_ames_research_center #nasa_artemis #nasa_general #nasa_missions #nasa_nasa_directorates #nasa_astrophysics #nasa_galaxies #nasa_science_ &_research #nasa_the_universe #nasa_andre_douglas #nasa_candidate_astronauts #nasa_kathleen_rubins #nasa_nasa_history #nasa_commercial_crew #nasa_commercial_space #nasa_humans_in_space #nasa_iss_research #nasa_exoplanet_atmosphere #nasa_exoplanet_science #nasa_exoplanet_transits #nasa_exoplanets #nasa_euclid #nasa_black_holes #nasa_dark_energy #nasa_stars
4 months ago
What is 3D-MAT?
A thermal protection material for the Artemis Generation The 3-Dimensional Multifunctional Ablative Thermal Protection System 3D-MAT is a thermal protection material developed as a critical component of Orion, NASAs newest spacecraft built for human deep space missions. It is able to maintain a high level of strength while enduring extreme temperatures during re-entry into Earths 8230;. https://www.nasa.gov/cente...#nasa #space #news #nasa_technology_transfer #nasa_technology #nasa_ames_research_center #nasa_artemis #nasa_general #nasa_missions #nasa_nasa_directorates #nasa_astrophysics #nasa_galaxies #nasa_science_ &_research #nasa_the_universe #nasa_andre_douglas #nasa_candidate_astronauts #nasa_kathleen_rubins #nasa_nasa_history #nasa_commercial_crew #nasa_commercial_space #nasa_humans_in_space #nasa_iss_research #nasa_exoplanet_atmosphere #nasa_exoplanet_science #nasa_exoplanet_transits #nasa_exoplanets #nasa_euclid #nasa_black_holes #nasa_dark_energy #nasa_stars
4 months ago
Galaxies Actively Forming in Early Universe Caught Feeding on Cold Gas
Researchers analyzing data from NASAs James Webb Space Telescope have pinpointed three galaxies that may be actively forming when the universe was only 400 to 600 million years old. Webbs data shows these galaxies are surrounded by gas that the researchers suspect to be almost purely hydrogen and helium, the earliest elements to exist in . https://science.nasa.gov/m...#nasa #space #news #nasa_technology_transfer #nasa_technology #nasa_ames_research_center #nasa_artemis #nasa_general #nasa_missions #nasa_nasa_directorates #nasa_astrophysics #nasa_galaxies #nasa_science_ &_research #nasa_the_universe #nasa_andre_douglas #nasa_candidate_astronauts #nasa_kathleen_rubins #nasa_nasa_history #nasa_commercial_crew #nasa_commercial_space #nasa_humans_in_space #nasa_iss_research #nasa_exoplanet_atmosphere #nasa_exoplanet_science #nasa_exoplanet_transits #nasa_exoplanets #nasa_euclid #nasa_black_holes #nasa_dark_energy #nasa_stars
4 months ago
A Moonlit Moonwalk
NASA astronauts Kate Rubins, foreground, and Andre Douglas execute a nighttime simulated moonwalk in the San Francisco Volcanic Field in Northern Arizona on May 16, 2024, as part of the Joint Extravehicular Activity and Human Surface Mobility Test Team Field Test 5 JETT5. The test consisted of four simulated moonwalks that followed operations planned for 8230;. https://www.nasa.gov/image...#nasa #space #news #nasa_andre_douglas #nasa_candidate_astronauts #nasa_kathleen_rubins #nasa_nasa_history #nasa_missions #nasa_commercial_crew #nasa_commercial_space #nasa_humans_in_space #nasa_iss_research #nasa_astrophysics #nasa_exoplanet_atmosphere #nasa_exoplanet_science #nasa_exoplanet_transits #nasa_exoplanets #nasa_euclid #nasa_black_holes #nasa_dark_energy #nasa_galaxies #nasa_stars #nasa_the_universe #nasa_goddard_technology #nasa_technology #nasa_earth #nasa_galaxy_clusters #nasa_science_ &_research
4 months ago
40 Years Ago: NASA Selects its 10th Group of Astronauts
On May 23, 1984, NASA announced the selection of its 10th group of astronauts. Chosen from nearly 5,000 applicants, the group comprised 17 astronaut candidates 8211; seven pilots and 10 mission specialists and included three women and one Hispanic American. They reported for duty on July 2 to begin their year-long training period to 8230;. https://www.nasa.gov/histo...#nasa #space #news #nasa_andre_douglas #nasa_candidate_astronauts #nasa_kathleen_rubins #nasa_nasa_history #nasa_missions #nasa_commercial_crew #nasa_commercial_space #nasa_humans_in_space #nasa_iss_research #nasa_astrophysics #nasa_exoplanet_atmosphere #nasa_exoplanet_science #nasa_exoplanet_transits #nasa_exoplanets #nasa_euclid #nasa_black_holes #nasa_dark_energy #nasa_galaxies #nasa_stars #nasa_the_universe #nasa_goddard_technology #nasa_technology #nasa_earth #nasa_galaxy_clusters #nasa_science_ &_research
4 months ago
NASA, Mission Partners to Discuss Starliner Crew Flight Test Progress
As NASA, Boeing, and ULA United Launch Alliance continue to evaluate a path toward launching the agencys Boeing Crew Flight Test, they will host a joint media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT Friday, May 24. The agency is working toward a launch at 12:25 p.m., Saturday, June 1, for the first crewed flight of Boeings 8230;. https://www.nasa.gov/news-...#nasa #space #news #nasa_andre_douglas #nasa_candidate_astronauts #nasa_kathleen_rubins #nasa_nasa_history #nasa_missions #nasa_commercial_crew #nasa_commercial_space #nasa_humans_in_space #nasa_iss_research #nasa_astrophysics #nasa_exoplanet_atmosphere #nasa_exoplanet_science #nasa_exoplanet_transits #nasa_exoplanets #nasa_euclid #nasa_black_holes #nasa_dark_energy #nasa_galaxies #nasa_stars #nasa_the_universe #nasa_goddard_technology #nasa_technology #nasa_earth #nasa_galaxy_clusters #nasa_science_ &_research
4 months ago
NASA’s TESS Finds Intriguing World Sized Between Earth, Venus
Using observations by NASAs TESS Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite and many other facilities, two international teams of astronomers have discovered a planet between the sizes of Earth and Venus only 40 light-years away. Multiple factors make it a candidate well-suited for further study using NASAs James Webb Space Telescope. TESS stares at a large swath . https://science.nasa.gov/u...#nasa #space #news #nasa_andre_douglas #nasa_candidate_astronauts #nasa_kathleen_rubins #nasa_nasa_history #nasa_missions #nasa_commercial_crew #nasa_commercial_space #nasa_humans_in_space #nasa_iss_research #nasa_astrophysics #nasa_exoplanet_atmosphere #nasa_exoplanet_science #nasa_exoplanet_transits #nasa_exoplanets #nasa_euclid #nasa_black_holes #nasa_dark_energy #nasa_galaxies #nasa_stars #nasa_the_universe #nasa_goddard_technology #nasa_technology #nasa_earth #nasa_galaxy_clusters #nasa_science_ &_research
4 months ago
New Images From Euclid Mission Reveal Wide View of the Dark Universe
With NASA contributions, the mission will complement dark energy studies to be made by the agencys upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The Euclid mission, led by ESA the European Space Agency with contributions from NASA, has released five new images that showcase the space telescopes ability to explore two large-scale cosmic mysteries: dark matter 8230;. https://www.nasa.gov/missi...#nasa #space #news #nasa_andre_douglas #nasa_candidate_astronauts #nasa_kathleen_rubins #nasa_nasa_history #nasa_missions #nasa_commercial_crew #nasa_commercial_space #nasa_humans_in_space #nasa_iss_research #nasa_astrophysics #nasa_exoplanet_atmosphere #nasa_exoplanet_science #nasa_exoplanet_transits #nasa_exoplanets #nasa_euclid #nasa_black_holes #nasa_dark_energy #nasa_galaxies #nasa_stars #nasa_the_universe #nasa_goddard_technology #nasa_technology #nasa_earth #nasa_galaxy_clusters #nasa_science_ &_research
