What’s Up For July 2018? Mars Closest To Earth Since 2003, Perseid Meteor Shower
What can you see in July’s night skies? […]
What can you see in July’s night skies? […]
One of the most actively changing areas on Mars are the steep edges of the North Polar layered deposits. This image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows many new ice blocks compared to an earlier image in December 2006. […]
The launch of Parker Solar Probe, the mission that will get closer to the Sun than any human-made object has ever gone, is quickly approaching, and on June 27, 2018, Parker Solar Probe’s heat shield — called the Thermal Protection System, or TPS — was installed on the spacecraft. […]
Preparations are underway for first-ever trip to the Sun, a new resupply mission arrives at the @International Space Station, and our Dawn spacecraft captures close-up photos of dwarf planet Ceres – these a few of the stories to tell you about This Week at NASA! […]
Picnics, parades and fireworks are the attributes of a grand July Fourth celebration. So are the itch and scratch of mosquito bites. While the bites are annoying, they don’t tend to stop the festivities. […]
Seventeen NASA payloads were just added to the International Space Station with the arrival of the latest SpaceX Dragon. […]
Career changes often involve unexpected transitions to unfamiliar areas, and Douglas Snider’s path is the perfect example. For three decades, Snider applied his craftsmanship skills and his discerning eye for top quality detail as an inspector and quality engineer for one of engineering’s top marvels: NASA’s Space Shuttle. […]
A new study using data from NASA’s NuSTAR space telescope suggests that Eta Carinae, the most luminous and massive stellar system within 10,000 light-years, is accelerating particles to high energies — some of which may reach Earth as cosmic rays. […]
For the fourth year in a row, Port Canaveral will host the Fireworks Before the Fireworks on July 3, one of the area’s most popular Fourth of July events with fireworks and family-centered festivities on the lawn of the Exploration Tower at Port Canaveral. […]
United Launch Alliance Delta Heavy rocket, carrying the Parker Solar Probe, is scheduled to liftoff on August 4 from Cape Canaveral and will carry humanity’s first mission to the sun. […]
This image of Jupiter’s southern hemisphere was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft on the outbound leg of a close flyby of the gas-giant planet. […]
A series of NASA flight tests has successfully demonstrated technologies that achieve a significant reduction in the noise generated by aircraft and heard by communities near airports. […]