Fizzing Sodium Could Explain Asteroid Phaethon’s Cometlike Activity
Portal origin URL: Fizzing Sodium Could Explain Asteroid Phaethon’s Cometlike ActivityPortal origin nid: 473253Published: Monday, August 16, 2021 - 11:14Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Models and lab tests suggest the asteroid could be venting sodium vapor as it orbits close to the Sun, explaining its increase in brightness.Portal...
Global Trio of Orbiters Shows Small Dust Storms Help Dry Out Mars
Portal origin URL: Global Trio of Orbiters Shows Small Dust Storms Help Dry Out MarsPortal origin nid: 473241Published: Monday, August 16, 2021 - 11:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: By combining observations from three international spacecraft at Mars, scientists were able to show that regional dust storms play a huge role in drying out the Red...
NASA Unveils New Interactive Website Ahead of Landsat 9 Launch
Portal origin URL: NASA Unveils New Interactive Website Ahead of Landsat 9 LaunchPortal origin nid: 473251Published: Monday, August 16, 2021 - 09:54Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Landsat 9, a joint NASA and U.S. Geological Survey satellite mission, is scheduled to launch Thursday, Sept. 16, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.Portal...
FRIDAY 13. AUGUST 2021
NASA at Your Table: Where Food Meets Methane
Portal origin URL: NASA at Your Table: Where Food Meets MethanePortal origin nid: 473224Published: Friday, August 13, 2021 - 13:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Today, human sources are responsible for 60% of global methane emissions, coming primarily from the burning of fossil fuels, decomposition in landfills and the agriculture sector. Nearly a...
Hubble Peers into a Dusty Stellar Nursery
Portal origin URL: Hubble Peers into a Dusty Stellar NurseryPortal origin nid: 469011Published: Friday, August 13, 2021 - 09:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features AFGL 5180, a beautiful stellar nursery located in the constellation of Gemini (the Twins).Portal image: This image from the...
THURSDAY 12. AUGUST 2021
DART Gets Its Wings: Spacecraft Integrated with Innovative Solar Array Technology and Camera
Portal origin URL: DART Gets Its Wings: Spacecraft Integrated with Innovative Solar Array Technology and CameraPortal origin nid: 473202Published: Thursday, August 12, 2021 - 15:10Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Perched atop a stand in the middle of a high-ceilinged clean room, DART is beginning to look like the intrepid spacecraft that will aim...
During Close Pass, Solar Orbiter Captures Venus’ Glare
Portal origin URL: During Close Pass, Solar Orbiter Captures Venus’ GlarePortal origin nid: 473208Published: Thursday, August 12, 2021 - 09:30Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: On Aug. 9, 2021, ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft passed within 4,967 miles (7,995 kilometers) of the surface of planet Venus. In the days leading up to the approach, the...
WEDNESDAY 11. AUGUST 2021
After Historic Hurricanes Eta and Iota, NASA Helps Prep Central America for Disasters to Come
Portal origin URL: After Historic Hurricanes Eta and Iota, NASA Helps Prep Central America for Disasters to ComePortal origin nid: 473188Published: Wednesday, August 11, 2021 - 15:30Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: After historic Hurricanes Eta and Iota, NASA is helping Central America prepare for future disasters.Portal image: Flooded streets in...
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Spots Perseverance From Above
Portal origin URL: NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Spots Perseverance From AbovePortal origin nid: 473201Published: Wednesday, August 11, 2021 - 13:49Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Can you see NASA’s newest rover in this picture from Jezero Crater?Portal image: “South Séítah” region of Jezero...
NASA Spacecraft Provides Insight into Asteroid Bennu’s Future Orbit
Portal origin URL: NASA Spacecraft Provides Insight into Asteroid Bennu’s Future OrbitPortal origin nid: 473195Published: Wednesday, August 11, 2021 - 12:19Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA researchers used precision-tracking data from the agency’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to better understand movements of the potentially hazardous asteroid...
NASA’s Lynnae Quick Awarded American Astronomical Society Prize for Outstanding Achievement
Portal origin URL: NASA’s Lynnae Quick Awarded American Astronomical Society Prize for Outstanding AchievementPortal origin nid: 473169Published: Wednesday, August 11, 2021 - 09:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Dr. Lynnae C. Quick, a research scientist in planetary studies at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has...
TUESDAY 10. AUGUST 2021
Aviation Week Awards NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter With Laureate
Portal origin URL: Aviation Week Awards NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter With Laureate Portal origin nid: 473168Published: Tuesday, August 10, 2021 - 14:27Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The prestigious honor recognizes the pioneering rotorcraft for its history-making flights on the Red Planet.Portal image: Ingenuity Images of Flight 10...
Passing Clouds Cause Some Marine Animals to Make Mini-Migrations During the Day
Portal origin URL: Passing Clouds Cause Some Marine Animals to Make Mini-Migrations During the DayPortal origin nid: 473163Published: Tuesday, August 10, 2021 - 13:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: With data collected during the EXport Processes in the Ocean from Remote Sensing (EXPORTS) field campaign in 2018 to the Northeastern Pacific Ocean,...
MONDAY 9. AUGUST 2021
NASA Invites Media to New OSIRIS-REx, Asteroid Bennu Study Briefing
Portal origin URL: NASA Invites Media to New OSIRIS-REx, Asteroid Bennu Study BriefingPortal origin nid: 473149Published: Monday, August 9, 2021 - 15:18Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Aug. 11, to discuss an important finding from NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource...
Building new fluid temperature control systems for future space missions
Engineers Jeff Mackey (left) and Monica Guzik (right) perform engineering checks on the Fluid Module 2 prior to final hardware assembly. FBCE seeks to validate a model for flow boiling critical heat flux (CHF) and develop an integrated two-phase flow boiling and condensation facility for the International Space Station.
In space, weight matters. So do size and energy efficiency. Which is...
NASA's "Tour of Asteroid Bennu" Selected for Prestigious Computer Graphics Film Festival
Portal origin URL: NASA's "Tour of Asteroid Bennu" Selected for Prestigious Computer Graphics Film FestivalPortal origin nid: 473114Published: Monday, August 9, 2021 - 12:50Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: It’s hard to imagine what the surface of asteroid Bennu might look like – it’s shortest distance from Earth still 250,000 miles away – but...
NASA, International Panel Provide a New Window on Rising Seas
Portal origin URL: NASA, International Panel Provide a New Window on Rising Seas Portal origin nid: 473143Published: Monday, August 9, 2021 - 11:41Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: A new online visualization tool will enable anyone to see what sea levels will look like anywhere in the world in the decades to come.Portal image: Image of...
FRIDAY 6. AUGUST 2021
NASA Scientist Christian Braneon Receives AXA Award for Climate Science
Portal origin URL: NASA Scientist Christian Braneon Receives AXA Award for Climate SciencePortal origin nid: 473108Published: Friday, August 6, 2021 - 07:41Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Dr. Christian Braneon, who works for SciSpace LLC at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), New York City, is one of four winners of the AXA Award...
THURSDAY 5. AUGUST 2021
NASA’s Juno Celebrates 10 Years With New Infrared View of Moon Ganymede
Portal origin URL: NASA’s Juno Celebrates 10 Years With New Infrared View of Moon GanymedePortal origin nid: 473099Published: Thursday, August 5, 2021 - 17:07Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The spacecraft used its infrared instrument during recent flybys of Jupiter’s mammoth moon to create this latest map, which comes out a decade after Juno’s...
Huge Rings Around a Black Hole
Portal origin URL: Huge Rings Around a Black HolePortal origin nid: 473071Published: Thursday, August 5, 2021 - 10:49Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Astronomers spotted an unusual set of rings in X-rays around a black hole with a companion star. These rings are created by light echoes, a phenomenon similar to echoes on Earth from sound waves...
Experiment Bound For Space Station Turns Down the Heat
A lot of power means a lot of heat. NASA’s future missions to explore the Moon and Mars will require enormous amounts of electrical power and hardware to support astronauts and drive new technologies. This increase in power, however, also increases the amount of heat generated—and then that heat needs to be removed so all the spacecraft systems can function.
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WEDNESDAY 4. AUGUST 2021
This Week in NASA History: Juno Mission to Jupiter Launches – Aug. 5, 2011
Portal origin URL: This Week in NASA History: Juno Mission to Jupiter Launches – Aug. 5, 2011Portal origin nid: 473012Published: Wednesday, August 4, 2021 - 08:07Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Cutline: This week in 2011, the Juno mission to Jupiter launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center aboard an Atlas V-551 rocket.Portal...
TUESDAY 3. AUGUST 2021
What's Up - August 2021
What are some skywatching highlights in August 2021?
The best-known meteor shower of the year should be a good time this year on the peak night of Aug. 11, with no bright Moon to interfere. Jupiter and Saturn are at their best all month long. And on Aug. 22, the full moon will be a "seasonal blue moon."
Learn more https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/whats-up-august-2021
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NASA Model Describes Nearby Star which Resembles Ours in its Youth
Portal origin URL: NASA Model Describes Nearby Star which Resembles Ours in its YouthPortal origin nid: 472970Published: Tuesday, August 3, 2021 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: New research led by NASA provides a closer look at a nearby star thought to resemble our young Sun.Portal image: Animated gif of SOHO's view of the...
Developing Tiny Micro-Shutter Arrays to Answer Big Questions
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NexGen Micro-Shutter Array (NGMSA)
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Advanced technology micro-shutters enable NASA to study galaxy evolution across cosmic time.
Goddard Space Flight Center astrophysicist Matt Greenhouse and lead engineer Mary Li examine a NexGen array prototype containing 282,624 programmable micro-shutters.
How did the first stars and galaxies form after the big bang? How did they...