“In planetary science, we often are just inching our way closer to the truth,” Plaut said. “The original paper didn’t prove it was water, and these new papers don’t prove…
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ECOSTRESS Data Incorporated Into New Wildfire Response Tool
ECOSTRESS measures surface temperature from the vantage point of the International Space Station, and its ability to observe fires of the Northwest US often twice per day at a high…
Hubble Finds First Evidence of Water Vapor at Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede
For the first time, astronomers have uncovered evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. This water vapor forms when ice from the moon’s surface sublimates — that…
Hubble Trouble – NASA Working to Patch Their Ageing Space Telescope
Perhaps if they trimmed the climate budget NASA scientists might not have to spend so much time struggling with the ageing Hubble platform.
Claim: NASA Satellites See Upper Atmosphere Cooling and Contracting Due to Climate Change
The sky isn’t falling, but scientists have found that parts of the upper atmosphere are gradually contracting in response to rising human-made greenhouse gas emissions.
Operations Underway to Restore Payload Computer on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope
NASA continues to work to resolve a problem with the Hubble Space Telescope payload computer that halted on June 13.
Sentinel-6 Sea Level Rise—A Follow Up
Since the long record differential GPS corrected (for vertical land motion) tide gauges all show about 2.2mm/year and no acceleration, both data products are useless for any SLR climate purpose.
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Begins Its First Science Campaign on Mars
The goal of the campaign is to establish what four locations in these units best tell the story of Jezero Crater’s early environment and geologic history. When the science team…
Microscopic Superheroes to Help Protect Astronaut Health in Space
In the long run, revealing what makes tardigrades so tolerant could lead to ways of protecting biological material, such as food and medicine from extreme temperatures, drying out, and radiation…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Captures Shining Clouds on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured these clouds just after sunset on March 19, 2021, the 3,063rd Martian day, or sol, of the rover’s mission. The image is made up of…
Magnetized Threads Weave Spectacular Galactic Tapestry
The new panorama of the Galactic Center builds on previous surveys from Chandra and other telescopes. This latest version expands Chandra’s high-energy view farther above and below the plane of…
New NASA Earth System Observatory to Help Address, Mitigate Climate Change
From NASA NASA’s new Earth System Observatory will guide efforts related to climate change, disaster mitigation, fighting forest fires, and improving real-time agricultural processes – including helping to better understand…
NASA’s Webb to Study How Massive Stars’ Blasts of Radiation Influence Their Environments
In a nearby stellar nursery called the Orion Nebula, young, massive stars are blasting far-ultraviolet light at the cloud of dust and gas from which they were born. This intense…
NASA’s S-MODE Takes to the Air and Sea to Study Ocean Eddies
After nearly a year and a half of delays due to the pandemic, the S-MODE team is excited to get their planes in the sky and the gliders in the…
New NASA Data Sheds (Sun) Light on Climate Models
The team found that the TSIS-1 data had more energy present in visible light wavelengths and less in the near-infrared wavelengths compared to the older SORCE reconstruction. These differences meant…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Heads for Earth with Asteroid Sample
After nearly five years in space, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft is on its way back to Earth with an abundance of rocks and…
NASA’s Perseverance Captures Video, Audio of Fourth Ingenuity Flight
“This is a very good surprise,” said David Mimoun, a professor of planetary science at Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (ISAE-SUPAERO) in Toulouse, France, and science lead for…
First Aerial Color Image of Mars
The winding parallel discolorations in the surface reveal the tread of the six-wheeled rover. Perseverance itself is located top center, just out frame. “Wright Brothers Field” is in the vicinity…
NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Extracts First Oxygen from Red Planet
The growing list of “firsts” for Perseverance, NASA’s newest six-wheeled robot on the Martian surface, includes converting some of the Red Planet’s thin, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere into oxygen. A toaster-size,…
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