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The icy face of Jupiter’s Europa. A site for life? Credit: NASA What might be waiting for discovery at the frost-covered ground at the poles of Mars? What about on the icy bodies in our Solar System, such as Jupiter’s Europa? Those are cool questions. And to...NASA Looks to Innovative Lunar Demos for Data Purchase
Private lunar rover. Courtesy Astrobotic Technology NASA has made an offer to buy data provided via commercial lunar landers. The space agency announcement falls under its Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) program, an initiative with a total budget of $30...First Satellite Measurement of Water Volume in Amazon Floodplain
The Amazon is the largest drainage basin in the world. And for the first time – thanks to satellites — scientists have been able to measure the amount of water that rises and falls annually in the Amazon River floodplain. An international squadron of...New Crater Found on the Moon
Something old, something new! Photo comparison courtesy NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State University. Earth’s crater-pocked old Moon sports a new feature. Thanks to the high-power imaging system – the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, or LROC for...Mars Rover’s Enduring Crawl to Endeavour Crater
Just relayed imagery from NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover show it making progress on its long distance trek toward Endeavour crater. Back here on Earth, operators of the rover have had Endeavour in their sights since the summer of 2008, when the wheeled machinery on...Book Review: Voyager: Seeking Newer Worlds in the Third Great Age of Discovery
Voyager: Seeking Newer Worlds in the Third Great Age of Discovery by Stephen J. Pyne; Viking/Penguin Group (USA); New York, New York; (hard cover); $29.95; 2010. This is an exceptional book by an award-winning environmental historian and author – a volume that...This Week in Space, July 30, 2010
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg1HahU55Z0Opportunity Braves Martian Dust Devil
NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has spotted and photographed its first Dust Devil. The grainy black and white image was snapped by the rover’s camera on July 15, one day after a Martian breeze cleared Opportunity’s solar arrays of dust, producing a...NASA Office Considered for Planetary Defense
The NASA Advisory Council’s Ad-Hoc Task Force on Planetary Defense is grappling with a set of recommendations – one of which could have the space agency set up a coordination office to help protect Earth from Near Earth Objects (NEOs). A special seven-person...Space Talk
Ellos cruzaron la atmósfera. Ahora cruzan una línea que nunca habían cruzado. ¿Qué vieron desde allá arriba que los trajo de regreso a pelear aquí abajo? 🌍
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¡Regresamos a la #Luna!
La #NASA ya tiene fecha para la histórica misión Artemis III en 2027, que llevará a los astronautas al inexplorado Polo Sur lunar. Te contamos los detalles de este gigantesco paso para la humanidad.
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Launched on May 4, 1989 aboard STS-30, #NASA’s Magellan mission transformed our understanding of #Venus - mapping 98% of its surface using #radar and revealing a dynamic, volcanic world hidden beneath dense clouds.
As the first interplanetary probe deployed from a Space Shuttle,
IS EARTH ENTERING A NEW ERA IN 2026? 🌍🚀
BREAKING NEWS — NASA has officially confirmed that in 2026, Earth will begin to be the focus of some of the most ambitious space milestones in human history.
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