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How NASA Is Protecting Europa Clipper From Space Radiation
To explore the mysterious ice-encrusted moon Europa, the mission will need to endure bombardment by radiation and high-energy particles surrounding Jupiter. When NASA’s Europa Clipper begins orbiting Jupiter to investigate…
IV&V Program’s Orion Team Receives Space Flight Awareness Award
FAIRMONT – The NASA Independent Verification & Validation Program’s Orion Team received an award for their contributions to the Artemis I Mission during a ceremony hosted at the I-79 Technology…
Observing Storms from the International Space Station
A storm is pictured in the Arabian Sea less than 700 miles off the coast of Oman as the International Space Station orbited 260 miles above. NASA / Jasmin Moghbeli…
A Tale of Three Pollutants
The fine particles, called , are more than 35 times smaller than a grain of sand and can infiltrate deep into lung tissue. They degrade air quality in Chicago neighborhoods…
Goddard Engineers Improve NASA Lidar Tech for Exploration
Lidar technology improvements will help NASA scientists and explorers with remote sensing and surveying, mapping, 3D-image scanning, hazard detection and avoidance, and a sonar using light instead of sound, lidar…
New Software Enables Atmospheric Modeling with Greater Resolution
High Performance GEOS-ChemAn ESTO investment in software optimization helps researchers and citizen scientists model air quality and greenhouse gases with greater resolution, allowing them to better understand how global atmospheric…
NASA’s Modern History Makers: Maricela Lizcano
Maricela Lizcano poses inside NASA Glenn Research Center’s Aerospace Communications Facility. Credit: NASA/Bridget Caswell >back to gallery Maricela Lizcano never dreamed of working for NASA. In fact, she wasn’t planning…
Why NASA’s Roman Mission Will Study Milky Way’s Flickering Lights
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide one of the deepest-ever views into the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. The mission will monitor hundreds of millions of stars…
Follow NASA’s Starling Swarm in Real Time
NASA’s Starling CubeSats are zipping through low Earth orbit in the agency’s latest test of robotic swarm technologies for space. The four Starling spacecraft, launched in July 2023, are testing…
NASA Awards NOAA’s QuickSounder Spacecraft Contract
NASA NASA, on behalf of NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), has awarded a delivery order under the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition IV (Rapid-IV) contract to Southwest Research Institute of San…