Eye-catching: Earth As Art!
A new NASA app features time-lapse satellite images of locations on Earth undergoing significant change over decades. This app celebrates Earth’s aesthetic beauty in the patterns, shapes, colors, and textures of the land, oceans, ice, and atmosphere. The app has a...U.S., European Scientists Lend New Accuracy to Greenland, Antarctic Ice Losses
An international alliance of scientists, using a wide array of data gathered by satellites as well as airborne sensors, confirms a 20 year record of ice melt from Antarctica as well as Greenland, findings that suggest significant losses related to global warming that ...U. S. Policy Update Stresses Security for Space Systems
An a new directive on space policy, the U. S. Department of Defense emphases a commitment to protect U. S. space assets from external threats, while recognizing the rights of other nation’s to use space for peaceful purposes. The directive also urges greater...Federal Workers Find NASA Best Place to Work
In a close contest, NASA edged out more than a half-dozen federal agencies in a 2012 U. S. Office of Professional Management survey of the best places to work within the U. S. federal government. NASA, with a 74 percent employee satisfaction ranking, topped...NASA’s Kepler Planet Hunter Granted Extended Mission
NASA’s prolific Kepler alien planet hunter has received a potential four-year extension to continue its search for Earth-like worlds circling within the habitable zones of distant stars. The Kepler space telescope’s just ending 3 1/2 year prime mission has...NASA Offers Space Station Viewers Email, Text Alerts
Just a few days ago, the U. S. led International Space Station reached a significant milestone: a dozen years of continuous human occupancy. NASA astronaut Bill Shepherd and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko arrived aboard a Soyuz capsule on Nov....New Tool for You! Turn Space Data into Infographics
There’s a new website in space town! JPL Infographics is available to you, a way to transform NASA data into scientific works of art. The site provides extensive collections of NASA science and mission data, graphics and space images that users can download to create...Deflecting Asteroids: Smear Tactic!
An incoming asteroid with Earth’s name on it…what to do is a constant concern of Near Earth Object experts. How about a volley or two of space-launched paintballs? Sung Wook Paek, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, says if timed...Saturn’s Titan: A World of Surprises
Saturn’s moon Titan provides the best opportunity to study conditions very similar to Earth – in terms of climate, meteorology and astrobiology. That’s the observation from Athena Coustenis from the Paris-Meudon Observatory in France. The scientist is presenting...Space Talk
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#NASA estimates that a human mission to Mars could take months or years with current propulsion technologies. To accelerate this timeline, NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are exploring nuclear thermal propulsion.
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.@NASA_Langley is testing the Lightweight Surface Manipulation System AutoNomy capabilities Development for Surface Operations (LANDO), a robotic arm designed to lift payloads and place them on the #lunar surface.
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