March 26, 2019 RELEASE 19-022 Vice President Mike Pence speaks about NASA’s mandate to return American astronauts to the Moon and on to Mars at the fifth meeting of the National Space Council March 26, 2019, at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Credits: NASA The following… Read more“NASA Administrator Statement on Return to Moon in Next Five Years”
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Mars Buggy’ Curiosity Measures a Mountain’s Gravity
Side-by-side images depict NASA’s Curiosity rover (illustration at left) and a moon buggy driven during the Apollo 16 mission. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Full image and caption Apollo 17 astronauts drove a moon buggy across the lunar surface in 1972, measuring gravity with a special instrument. There are no astronauts on Mars,… Read more“Mars Buggy’ Curiosity Measures a Mountain’s Gravity”
Holy Cow! Mysterious Blast Studied with NASA Telescopes
AT2018cow erupted in or near a galaxy known as CGCG 137-068, which is located about 200 million light-years away in the constellation Hercules. This zoomed-in image shows the location of the “Cow” in the galaxy.Credits: Sloan Digital Sky Survey A brief and unusual flash spotted in the night sky on… Read more“Holy Cow! Mysterious Blast Studied with NASA Telescopes”
Io Rising
Jupiter’s moon Io rises just off the horizon of the gas giant planet in this image from NASA’s Juno spacecraft. Slightly larger than Earth’s moon, Io is the most volcanically active world in the solar system. This color-enhanced image was taken at 2:26 p.m. PDT (5:56 p.m. EDT) on Oct…. Read more“Io Rising”
NASA Announces Landing Site for Mars 2020 Rover
On ancient Mars, water carved channels and transported sediments to form fans and deltas within lake basins. Examination of spectral data acquired from orbit show that some of these sediments have minerals that indicate chemical alteration by water. Here in Jezero Crater delta, sediments contain clays and carbonates. The image… Read more“NASA Announces Landing Site for Mars 2020 Rover”
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Returns to Science Operations
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope returned to normal operations late Friday, Oct. 26, and completed its first science observations on Saturday, Oct. 27 at 2:10 AM EDT. The observations were of the distant, star-forming galaxy DSF2237B-1-IR and were taken in infrared wavelengths with the Wide Field Camera 3 instrument. The return to conducting science comes… Read more“NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Returns to Science Operations”