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Surfing NASA’s Internet of Animals: Satellites Study Ocean Wildlife

July 10, 2024

Milan Loiacono

Anchoring the boat in a sandbar, research scientist Morgan Gilmour steps into the shallows and is immediately surrounded by sharks. The warm waters around the tropical island act as a reef shark nursery, and these baby biters are curious about the newcomer. They zoom close and veer away at the last minute, as Gilmour slowly…
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NASA’s Upgraded Hyperwall Offers Improved Data Visualization

July 1, 2024

Tara Friesen

In May, the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility, located at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, celebrated the newest generation of its hyperwall system, a wall of LCD screens that display supercomputer-scale visualizations of the very large datasets produced by NASA supercomputers and instruments. The upgrade is the fourth generation of hyperwall clusters…
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What is 3D-MAT?

May 23, 2024

Frank Tavares

A thermal protection material for the Artemis Generation The 3-Dimensional Multifunctional Ablative Thermal Protection System (3D-MAT) is a thermal protection material developed as a critical component of Orion, NASA’s newest spacecraft built for human deep space missions. It is able to maintain a high level of strength while enduring extreme temperatures during re-entry into Earth’s…
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NASA Astronomer Sees Power in Community, Works to Build More

February 21, 2024

Abby Tabor

Science is often portrayed as a solitary affair, where discoveries are made by lone geniuses toiling in isolation. But Dr. Natasha Batalha, an astronomer at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, says solving problems with the people around her is one of the best parts of her job. “Oh, man, working with people…
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NASA Leader Casey Swails Learns About Wildfire Work at NASA Ames

February 20, 2024

Abby Tabor

NASA Deputy Associate Administrator Casey Swails views a demonstration on screen in the Airspace Operations Laboratory at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. Researchers presented the diverse, long-running efforts in aeronautics at Ames that have helped lay the foundation for agency work related to wildfire response. These include a project to help integrate…
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NASA Ames Hosts JAXA Leader to Discuss Space Science and Spaceflight

February 6, 2024

Abby Tabor

Daniel Andrews, project manager for NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) (left), stands next to a full-scale model of the rover alongside visitors from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA): Dr. Hitoshi Kuninaka, Vice President of JAXA and Director General of JAXA’s Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS); Nobuhiro Takahashi of the ISAS…
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2023 in Review: Highlights from NASA in Silicon Valley

December 13, 2023

Arezu Sarvestani

It’s been another great year at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. Join us as we review some of the highlights of the science, engineering, and innovation from 2023. Announcing a New Innovation Hub Planned for NASA Research Park at Ames Berkeley Space Center is a proposed new campus of the University of…
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Scorching, Seven-Planet System Revealed by New Kepler Exoplanet List

November 2, 2023

Frank Tavares

A system of seven sweltering planets has been revealed by continued study of data from NASA’s retired Kepler space telescope: Each one is bathed in more radiant heat from their host star per area than any planet in our solar system. Also unlike any of our immediate neighbors, all seven planets in this system, named…
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Clues to Psyche Asteroid’s Metallic Nature Found in SOFIA Data

October 2, 2023

Abby Tabor

When the asteroid Psyche has its first close-up with a NASA spacecraft, scientists hypothesize they will find a metal-rich asteroid. It could be part or all of the iron-rich interior of a planetesimal, an early planetary building block, that was stripped of its outer rocky shell as it repeatedly collided with other large bodies during…
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Category: Ames Research Center’s Science Directorate

Surfing NASA’s Internet of Animals: Satellites Study Ocean Wildlife

NASA’s Upgraded Hyperwall Offers Improved Data Visualization

What is 3D-MAT?

NASA Astronomer Sees Power in Community, Works to Build More

NASA Leader Casey Swails Learns About Wildfire Work at NASA Ames

NASA Ames Hosts JAXA Leader to Discuss Space Science and Spaceflight

2023 in Review: Highlights from NASA in Silicon Valley

Scorching, Seven-Planet System Revealed by New Kepler Exoplanet List

Clues to Psyche Asteroid’s Metallic Nature Found in SOFIA Data

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