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Ride With Juno As It Flies Past the Solar System’s Biggest Moon and Jupiter

Portal origin URL: Ride With Juno As It Flies Past the Solar System’s Biggest Moon and Jupiter Portal origin nid: 472518Published: Wednesday, July 14, 2021 - 09:52Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The probe flew closer to Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, than any other spacecraft in more than two decades, offering dramatic glimpses of both the...


TUESDAY 13. JULY 2021


NASA Solar Sail Asteroid Mission Readies for Launch on Artemis I

Portal origin URL: NASA Solar Sail Asteroid Mission Readies for Launch on Artemis IPortal origin nid: 472515Published: Tuesday, July 13, 2021 - 16:40Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA's Near-Earth Asteroid Scout is tucked away safely inside the agency's powerful Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in...

40-Year Mystery Solved: Source of Jupiter’s X-Ray Flares Uncovered

Portal origin URL: 40-Year Mystery Solved: Source of Jupiter’s X-Ray Flares Uncovered Portal origin nid: 472508Published: Tuesday, July 13, 2021 - 15:03Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: A puzzler about the gas giant’s intense northern and southern lights has been deciphered.Portal image: The purple hues in this image show X-ray emissions from...

NASA, ESA Partner in New Effort to Address Global Climate Change

Portal origin URL: NASA, ESA Partner in New Effort to Address Global Climate ChangePortal origin nid: 472503Published: Tuesday, July 13, 2021 - 11:58Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) have formed a first-of-its-kind strategic partnership to observe Earth and its changing environment.Portal image: NASA Deputy...


MONDAY 12. JULY 2021


NASA Lucy Mission’s Message to the Future

Portal origin URL: NASA Lucy Mission’s Message to the FuturePortal origin nid: 472461Published: Monday, July 12, 2021 - 13:45Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: As the first-ever mission to the Trojan asteroids, Lucy will survey this enigmatic population of small bodies that orbit the Sun beyond the main asteroid belt - trapped by Jupiter and the Sun...

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Reveals Intriguing Terrain for Rover Team

Portal origin URL: NASA’s Mars Helicopter Reveals Intriguing Terrain for Rover TeamPortal origin nid: 472478Published: Monday, July 12, 2021 - 13:34Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Ingenuity’s ninth flight provided imagery that will help the Perseverance rover team develop its science plan going forward.Portal image: NASA’s Ingenuity Mars...

Surface of Jupiter’s Moon Europa Churned by Small Impacts

Portal origin URL: Surface of Jupiter’s Moon Europa Churned by Small ImpactsPortal origin nid: 472448Published: Monday, July 12, 2021 - 11:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Jupiter’s moon Europa and its global ocean may currently have conditions suitable for life. Scientists are studying processes on the icy surface as they prepare to...


THURSDAY 8. JULY 2021


NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds Patches of Rock Record Erased, Revealing Clues

Portal origin URL: NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds Patches of Rock Record Erased, Revealing CluesPortal origin nid: 472385Published: Thursday, July 8, 2021 - 14:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Scientists have new evidence that super salty water, or brines, seeped deep through the cracks, between grains of soil in the parched lake bottom at Gale...

NASA’s AIRS Tracks Record-Breaking Heat Wave in Pacific Northwest

Portal origin URL: NASA’s AIRS Tracks Record-Breaking Heat Wave in Pacific NorthwestPortal origin nid: 472405Published: Thursday, July 8, 2021 - 13:35Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The science instrument mapped the dome of high pressure that settled over the northwestern U.S. and western Canada in late June, sending temperatures into the triple...

What's Up: July 2021

Venus blazes as the "Evening Star" following sunset, with a much fainter planet Mars nearby. Catch their super close pairing on July 12. Plus, if you can find your way to dark skies, this is the best time of year to enjoy the magic of the Milky Way. News Article Type: Homepage ArticlesPublished: Thursday, July 8, 2021 -...

NASA Supports Drought Resilience in the American West

Portal origin URL: NASA Supports Drought Resilience in the American West Portal origin nid: 472350Published: Thursday, July 8, 2021 - 12:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA Supports Drought Resilience in the American WestPortal image: Animation of map of US showing drought in July 2020 and July...

Lunar Hardware Delivered to NASA Goddard

Portal origin URL: Lunar Hardware Delivered to NASA GoddardPortal origin nid: 472392Published: Thursday, July 8, 2021 - 11:50Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: A critical piece of hardware, the Peregrine Ion-Trap Mass Spectrometer, that will fly to the Moon, has been delivered to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center for integration.Portal...

Meet the Open-Source Software Powering NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter

Portal origin URL: Meet the Open-Source Software Powering NASA’s Ingenuity Mars HelicopterPortal origin nid: 472283Published: Thursday, July 8, 2021 - 09:44Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Created at NASA’s JPL, the open-source flight software called F Prime isn’t just powering humanity’s first interplanetary helicopter; it’s also powering...


WEDNESDAY 7. JULY 2021


NASA Space Lasers Map Meltwater Lakes in Antarctica With Striking Precision

Portal origin URL: NASA Space Lasers Map Meltwater Lakes in Antarctica With Striking PrecisionPortal origin nid: 472344Published: Wednesday, July 7, 2021 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: With the most advanced Earth-observing laser instrument NASA has ever flown in space, scientists have improved their maps of hidden lake systems under the West...

Study Projects a Surge in Coastal Flooding, Starting in 2030s

Portal origin URL: Study Projects a Surge in Coastal Flooding, Starting in 2030sPortal origin nid: 472351Published: Wednesday, July 7, 2021 - 08:17Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: In the mid-2030s, every U.S. coast will experience rapidly increasing high-tide floods, when a lunar cycle will amplify rising sea levels caused by climate change.Portal...


TUESDAY 6. JULY 2021


NASA Science Live: International Asteroid Day

At NASA, every day is asteroid day. From the many missions journeying to asteroids in our solar system – some even returning samples to Earth – to the efforts to find, track and monitor near-Earth objects and protect our planet from potential impact hazards, NASA and its partners are always looking to the skies. Meet the experts:    Dr. Dani DellaGiustina is a Research...

Rediscovering the Lost Art of Fluxgate Magnetometer Cores

PROJECT MAGnetometers for Innovation and Capability (MAGIC) SNAPSHOT A NASA-sponsored team at the University of Iowa is rediscovering and improving lost techniques to develop high-fidelity instruments needed to make the magnetic field measurements that enable many of the nation’s space science and space weather missions. MAGIC team members from the University of Iowa, Department of...


FRIDAY 2. JULY 2021


NASA Scientists Available for Interviews on Hurricanes, Tropical Storms

Portal origin URL: NASA Scientists Available for Interviews on Hurricanes, Tropical StormsPortal origin nid: 472261Published: Friday, July 2, 2021 - 16:45Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The center of Hurricane Elsa has formed to the east of the Windward and southern Leeward islands and is expected to bring heavy rainfall to those areas over the...

NASA Rocket, Satellite Tag-Team to View the Giant Electric Current in the Sky

Portal origin URL: NASA Rocket, Satellite Tag-Team to View the Giant Electric Current in the SkyPortal origin nid: 472204Published: Friday, July 2, 2021 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The Dynamo-2 sounding rocket mission will launch two rockets coordinated with the passing of the ICON satellite overhead to study a churning electric current in...

NASA’s Citizen Science Program is Expanding

Body: NASA is funding 23 new awards from across the U.S. to develop or support citizen science projects and research. Citizen science projects foster collaboration between scientists and interested members of the public.   Link: Read...

NASA’s Citizen Science Program is Expanding

23 New Grants Awarded for Scientific Research and Collaborations with the Public NASA is funding 23 new awards from across the U.S. to develop or support citizen science projects and research. Citizen science projects foster collaboration between scientists and interested members of the public.   News Article Type: Homepage ArticlesPublished: Friday, July 2, 2021 -...

Hubble Sees a Cluster of Red, White, and Blue

Portal origin URL: Hubble Sees a Cluster of Red, White, and BluePortal origin nid: 472225Published: Friday, July 2, 2021 - 08:20Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: This image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope depicts the open star cluster NGC 330, which lies around 180,000 light-years away inside the Small Magellanic Cloud.Portal...


THURSDAY 1. JULY 2021


NASA’s Self-Driving Perseverance Mars Rover ‘Takes the Wheel’

Portal origin URL: NASA’s Self-Driving Perseverance Mars Rover ‘Takes the Wheel’Portal origin nid: 472227Published: Thursday, July 1, 2021 - 13:29Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The agency’s newest rover is trekking across the Martian landscape using a newly enhanced auto-navigation system.Portal image: Left and right views from...

Parker Solar Probe Team Earns Aerospace Award from the National Space Club and Foundation

Portal origin URL: Parker Solar Probe Team Earns Aerospace Award from the National Space Club and FoundationPortal origin nid: 472197Published: Thursday, July 1, 2021 - 10:30Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The Parker Solar Probe team has earned the National Space Club and Foundation’s Nelson P. Jackson Award, which recognizes the most outstanding...


WEDNESDAY 30. JUNE 2021


NASA Satellites See Upper Atmosphere Cooling and Contracting Due to Climate Change

Portal origin URL: NASA Satellites See Upper Atmosphere Cooling and Contracting Due to Climate ChangePortal origin nid: 472121Published: Wednesday, June 30, 2021 - 12:10Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The sky isn’t falling, but scientists have found that parts of the upper atmosphere are gradually contracting in response to rising human-produced...