Perseverance used onboard suit swatches over 1,645 sols to make the first on-site Mars measurements of fine and ultrafine dust, down to 100–300 nm.
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Articles about the North American Space Agency and its Space Exploration Programs like JWST and Curiosity, Technology, Scientific Research and Publications
LLNL’s 3D Spheral simulations of a nuclear standoff show ~98% damage and ~97% of mass above escape speed, but 59 days of compute covered only 145 ms.
El Niño has Manaus choking—PM2.5 above 135 closed schools—while satellites track a long Amazon fire season and a 40% undercount near Santarém.
A new model of Thwaites Glacier that treats a wide grounding zone doubles projected sea-level rise to 30 mm by 2100 and raises coastal flood risk.
Launched Oct. 1, NASA’s SSPICY will in 2027 have Otter inspect up to four inoperable U.S. objects from hundreds of yards using electric propulsion.
DAVINCI’s descent probe was heated to 869 F (465 C) over about an hour to mirror Venus entry—and the engineering unit performed as intended.
NASA named five Mars to Table winners to feed 15 for 500 sols; $300k to Chinyere Ukeje and $200k to Cislune, from 113 entries across 33 countries and 28 U.S. st
FarmFlux flies low with 12+ sensors to track methane, ammonia, ozone and particulates over Colorado and Texas now, then the Midwest and California in 2027.
Found in Lassen Volcanic National Park, Incendiamoeba cascadensis divides at 145°F and stays active at 147°F, pushing the known heat limits for eukaryotes.
On Feb. 1, 2025, XRISM’s Resolve saw redshifted iron lines in BP Crucis, showing Wray 977’s wind plunging toward pulsar GX 301‑2 at 335,000 mph.