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Online Visualization Tool From NASA Provide a New Window on Rising Seas
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Online Visualization Tool From NASA Provide a New Window on Rising Seas

Rising seas will exacerbate problems that coastal communities are already dealing with, including high-tide, or “nuisance,” floods. Inundated roadways like this one in Virginia are among the consequences of such…

12 September 2021 · 5 min read

NASA’s Juno Celebrates 10 Years With New Infrared View of Mammoth Jovian Moon Ganymede
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NASA’s Juno Celebrates 10 Years With New Infrared View of Mammoth Jovian Moon Ganymede

This infrared view of Jupiter’s icy moon Ganymede was obtained by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft during its July 20th, 2021, flyby. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM…

12 September 2021 · 5 min read

New Index Ranks Rainforests’ Vulnerability to Climate and Human Impacts
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New Index Ranks Rainforests’ Vulnerability to Climate and Human Impacts

A rainforest in Malaysia. Credit: Wikimedia Common A new index shows that the world’s rainforests are responding differently to threats like a warming climate and deforestation. Scientists from NASA’s Jet…

12 September 2021 · 4 min read

40-Year Mystery Solved: Source of Jupiter’s Strange X-Ray Flares Uncovered
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40-Year Mystery Solved: Source of Jupiter’s Strange X-Ray Flares Uncovered

The purple hues in this image show X-ray emissions from Jupiter’s auroras, detected by NASA’s Chandra Space Telescope in 2007. They are overlaid on an image of Jupiter taken by…

18 July 2021 · 5 min read

Deep Space Atomic Clock to Improve GPS, Increase Spacecraft Autonomy
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Deep Space Atomic Clock to Improve GPS, Increase Spacecraft Autonomy

NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock has been operating aboard the General Atomics Orbital Test Bed satellite since June 2019. This illustration shows the spacecraft in Earth orbit. Credit: General Atomics…

18 July 2021 · 6 min read

Surface of Jupiter’s Moon Europa Churned by Small Impacts – May Currently Have Conditions Suitable for Life
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Surface of Jupiter’s Moon Europa Churned by Small Impacts – May Currently Have Conditions Suitable for Life

This color view of Jupiter’s moon Europa was captured by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s. Scientists are studying processes that affect the surface as they prepare to explore…

13 July 2021 · 4 min read

Scientists Have Figured Out What Triggers Large-Scale Volcanic Eruptions
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Scientists Have Figured Out What Triggers Large-Scale Volcanic Eruptions

A lava flow from Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano enters the ocean near Isaac Hale Beach Park on August 5, 2018. The volcano’s 2018 eruption was its largest in over 200 years.…

15 May 2021 · 4 min read

Watch NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Fly in 3D
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Watch NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Fly in 3D

A new video of the helicopter’s third flight gives viewers the sensation of standing on the Red Planet and seeing the action firsthand. When NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took to…

14 May 2021 · 4 min read

Hear the Eerie Sounds of Interstellar Space Captured by NASA's Voyager
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Hear the Eerie Sounds of Interstellar Space Captured by NASA’s Voyager

An illustration depicting one of NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft. Both Voyagers have entered interstellar space, or the space outside our Sun’s heliosphere. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech As NASA’s Voyager 1 Surveys Interstellar…

13 May 2021 · 7 min read

Searching for Signs of Life on Mars: Perseverance's Robotic Arm Starts Conducting Science
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Searching for Signs of Life on Mars: Perseverance’s Robotic Arm Starts Conducting Science

NASA’s newest Mars rover is beginning to study the floor of an ancient crater that once held a lake.   Mastcam-Z Views ‘Santa Cruz’ on Mars: NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover…

12 May 2021 · 5 min read