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Can Volcanic Super Eruptions Lead to Major Cooling? Study Suggests No
New research suggests that sunlight-blocking particles from an extreme eruption would not cool surface temperatures on Earth as severely as previously 74,000 years ago, the Toba volcano in Indonesia exploded…
IPEx Autonomy Testing
Harsh, low-angle sunlight, long and dark shadows, and a featureless terrain will make navigation difficult when NASA’s ISRU Pilot Excavator (IPEx) is sent to the Moon. Because of this, the…
Co-Authored Paper on Data-Centric Machine Learning Research
Manil Maskey (ST1) co-authored a position paper entitled “Data-centric Machine Learning Research — Past, Present and ; The pre-print of the paper is available at This work represents a joint…
Hubble Uncovers a Celestial Fossil
This densely populated group of stars is the globular cluster NGC 1841, which is part of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way galaxy that…
NASA’s Global Precipitation Measurement Mission: 10 years, 10 stories
From peering into hurricanes to tracking El Niño-related floods and droughts to aiding in disaster responses, the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission has had a busy decade in orbit. As…
Update on Status of NASA’s OSAM-1 Project
Following an in-depth, independent project review, NASA has decided to discontinue the On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1) project due to continued technical, cost, and schedule challenges, and a…
Night-Shining Cloud Mission Ends; Yields High Science Results for NASA
5 min readAfter 16 years studying Earth’s highest clouds for the benefit of humanity – polar mesospheric clouds – from its orbit some 350 miles above the ground, NASA’s Aeronomy…
Hubble Uncovers a Celestial Fossil
2 min readThis densely populated group of stars is the globular cluster NGC 1841, which is part of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way…
March’s Night Sky Notes: Constant Companions: Circumpolar Constellations, Part II
2 min readby Kat Troche of the Astronomical Society of the PacificAs the seasons shift from Winter to Spring, heralding in the promise of warmer weather here in the northern…
NASA Ames Astrogram – January/February 2024
Into the Belly of the Rover: VIPER’s Final Science Instrument Installed by Rachel Hoover TRIDENT, designed and developed by engineers at Honeybee Robotics in Altadena, California, is the fourth and…