Category Archives: Nasa

Happy Halloween from NASA

If school wasn’t scary enough… here is a spooky/amusing take on watching a classroom film on Halloween.   NASA wishes you a safe and happy Halloween

Countdown to Mars: A Story of Perseverance

“When you look at the team that put this robot together, and the team that put this launch vehicle together, that’s what they’ve done. They’ve persevered.” Go behind the scenes of our Perseverance Mars rover’s July 30, 2020 launch with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. On Feb. 18, 2021, the rover will land in Jezero Crater, […]

Gravity Assist: Is Artificial Intelligence the Future of Life?

If astrobiologists find life beyond Earth in the solar system, it will most likely be in the form of tiny organisms called microbes – nothing that would talk to us. But the galaxy is a big place; the universe even bigger. Somewhere out there, life may have evolved to become as smart, or even much […]

A Step Toward Sustainable Lunar Exploration on This Week @NASA – September 11, 2020

A step toward sustainable lunar exploration, looking for science and tech delivery to the Moon, and gearing up for some extreme conditions … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA! Download Link: https://images.nasa.gov/details-A%20Step%20Toward%20Sustainable%20Lunar%20Exploration%20on%20This%20Week%20@NASA%20September%2011,%202020

NASA Science Live: Our Next Solar Cycle

The Sun goes through regular cycles of activity approximately every 11 years, and tracking these cycles is a key part of better understanding the Sun and mitigating its impacts on human technology and astronauts in space. Join NASA and NOAA experts Tuesday, Sept. 15 at 3:00 p.m. EDT as they discuss predictions for the upcoming […]

NASA Asks Commercial Companies to Collect Moon Rocks

While NASA is working aggressively to meet our near-term goal of landing the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024, our Artemis program also is focused on taking steps that will establish a safe and sustainable lunar exploration architecture. NASA is taking a critical step forward by releasing a solicitation for commercial […]

Take a Tour of Distant Cosmic Object GRB150101B

Views of distant cosmic object GRB 150101B were generated with data from NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory. This object may be a relative to GW170817, where astronomers made the first X-ray detection of a gravitational wave source. More: https://go.nasa.gov/2NKjMN1

20 Years of Science: NASA Explorers S4 Bonus

This season on NASA Explorers, you’ve seen what it takes to send science to the International Space Station through the eyes of one team of researchers.

U.S. Commercial Cargo Ship Departs the International Space Station

The U.S. commercial SpaceX Dragon cargo craft was released from the International Space Station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm in the early hours of March 19, …

Sandy's Storm Track Spied by Satellite

An animation of satellite observations from Oct. 26-29, 2012, shows Hurricane Sandy move along the U.S. East coast and into the Mid-Atlantic and northeastern U.S. Sandy had still not made landfall by the end of this animation. This visualization was created by the NASA GOES Project at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., using […]