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NASA Launches Second Small Climate Satellite to Study Earth’s Poles
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The infrared NEOWISE space telescope relayed its final data to Earth before the project team at JPL sent a command that turned off its transmitter. .
Aug. 8, 2024
Twelve years ago, NASA landed its six-wheeled science lab using a daring new technology that lowers the rover using a robotic jetpack. .
Aug. 7, 2024
The six-wheeled geologist found a fascinating rock that has some indications it may have hosted microbial life billions of years ago, but further research is needed. .
July 25, 2024
Managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory through launch, Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument also revealed jets of gas flowing into space from the twin stars. .
July 24, 2024
Researchers used more than 120 years of data to decipher how melting ice, dwindling groundwater, and rising seas are nudging the planet’s spin axis and lengthening days. .
July 19, 2024
Among several recent findings, the rover has found rocks made of pure sulfur — a first on the Red Planet. .
July 18, 2024
Artificial intelligence is helping scientists to identify minerals within rocks studied by the Perseverance rover. .
July 16, 2024
Lyrics for Missy Elliot’s song “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” were transmitted from the DSN’s Goldstone complex to Venus, about 158 million miles (254 million kilometers) away. .
July 15, 2024
The Deep Space Network’s Goldstone planetary radar had a busy few days observing asteroids 2024 MK and 2011 UL21 as they safely passed Earth. .
July 3, 2024
Roads and sidewalks in some areas get so hot that skin contact could result in second-degree burns. .
July 2, 2024
The fifth Planetary Defense Interagency Tabletop Exercise focused on an asteroid impact scenario designed by NASA JPL’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies. .
NASA’s near-Earth-object-hunting mission NEOWISE is nearing its conclusion. But its work will carry on with NASA’s next-generation infrared mission: NEO Surveyor. .
July 1, 2024
