Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s plans for lunar return include landing the first woman on the lunar surface. Education advocates oppose a $1.6 billion 2020 NASA budget supplement that proposes to redirect funds from the Pell Grant reserves. NASA awards $106...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine cheers efforts to accelerate the return of human explorers to the surface of the Moon by 2024 in remarks before the Human to Mars Summit and in a town hall meeting with agency employees. A new model of...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The White House announced late Monday it will seek an additional $1.6 billion for NASA in 2020 to help accelerate plans to return human explorers to the surface of the Moon from 2028 to 2024. The congressional request supplements the $21...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s efforts to meet a new 2024 deadline for a human return to the surface of the Moon and how it will be funded continue to provide a rich topic of discussion with the space community. But the effort, a partnership between NASA...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Blue Origin presents its version of a commercial lunar lander that could join NASA’s efforts to return to the surface of the Moon with human explorers by 2024. Some experts are not ruling out some form of life on Mars. A plentiful...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Members of the House Space Subcommittee expressed frustration Wednesday over the delay of a 2020 President’s Budget Request supplement for NASA, to include proposed steps and costs for an accelerated human return to the Moon. Boeing...Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… International Space Station (ISS) experiments seek insight into health challenges for human deep space explorers. Intense solar activity may be headed toward Earth. Debris from Indian ASAT test still in orbit.Human Space ExplorationStaying...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Vice President Mike Pence reasserts the administration’s commitment to space in a speech at the 2019 Satellite Conference. NASA’s latest cargo mission to the six person International Space Station (ISS) reached its destination...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The International Space Station (ISS) crew welcomes the arrival of a NASA contracted cargo mission early Monday. Last week’s Planetary Defense Conference featured simulated discovery and preparations for a possible asteroid impact...Space Talk
HiPOD: Periglacial Terrain in Protonilus Mensae
With this observation, the existing periglacial mantle near a previous image can be better constrained across this area. Futher up from this pic, the terrain appears scoured and the mantle is discontinous.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_077144_2250
The Andromeda galaxy isn't making stars like it used to. A new study using @NASAHubble data shows that star formation in Andromeda has been slowing down over the last 40 million years: https://go.nasa.gov/4yE0X5z
On Aug. 12, a total solar eclipse will cross Greenland, Iceland, and Spain — and NASA science will be there! ☀️🌑🔭
We're flying high-altitude jets and launching scientific balloons to study the Sun and the eclipse's effects on us: http://go.nasa.gov/4x5qvqP
📸: NASA/Ernie Wright
On Aug. 12, a total solar eclipse will cross Greenland, Iceland, and Spain — and NASA science will be there! ☀️🌑🔭
We're flying high-altitude jets and launching scientific balloons to study the Sun and the eclipse's effects on us: http://go.nasa.gov/4x5qvqP
📸: NASA/Ernie Wright