More water worlds than we thought might support life
Too much water on exoplanet surfaces would mean high pressure ices, not life.
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astrophysics, Astrophysics Division, goddard space flight center, Hubble Space Telescope, mars, MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN), Missions, planetary science, planets, Science Mission Directorate, Tech Industry, Tech News, The Solar SystemNASA’s Hubble, MAVEN Help Solve the Mystery of Mars’ Escaping Water
Read more: NASA’s Hubble, MAVEN Help Solve the Mystery of Mars’ Escaping WaterMars was once a very wet planet as is evident in its surface geological features. Scientists know that over the last 3 billion years, at least some water went deep underground, but what happened to the rest? Now, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) missions are helping unlock that mystery.…
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2024 Solar Eclipse, astrophysics, Audio, citizen science, Earth science, heliophysics, planetary science, Science Activation, Tech Industry, Tech News
Eclipse Soundscapes AudioMoth Donations Will Study Nature at Night
Read more: Eclipse Soundscapes AudioMoth Donations Will Study Nature at NightDuring the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse, approximately 770 AudioMoth recording devices were used to capture sound data as part of the Eclipse Soundscapes Project — a multisensory participatory science (also known as “citizen science”) project that is studying how eclipses impact life on Earth. Following the eclipse, participants had the option to keep…
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Asteroids, Astromaterials, bennu, General, johnson space center, Missions, NASA Centers & Facilities, NASA Directorates, OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer), planetary science, Planetary Science Division, Science & Research, Science Mission Directorate, Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Inst., Tech Industry, Tech News, The Solar System
NASA Shares Asteroid Bennu Sample in Exchange with JAXA
Read more: NASA Shares Asteroid Bennu Sample in Exchange with JAXAAs part of an asteroid sample exchange, NASA has transferred to JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) a portion of the asteroid Bennu sample collected by the agency’s OSIRIS-REx mission. The sample was officially handed over by NASA officials during a ceremony on Aug. 22 at JAXA’s Sagamihara, Japan, campus. This asteroid sample transfer follows the…
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Into The Field With NASA: Valley Of Ten Thousand Smokes
Read more: Into The Field With NASA: Valley Of Ten Thousand SmokesTo better understand Mars, NASA’s Goddard Instrument Field Team headed deep into the backcountry of Katmai National Park.
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astronomy, atmosphere, impacts, Meteors, planetary science, Science, Tech Industry, Tech News, the moon
Meteorites give the Moon its extremely thin atmosphere
Read more: Meteorites give the Moon its extremely thin atmosphereImpacts that vaporize bits of the lunar surface maintain the Moon’s thin atmosphere.
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Astro Campers SCoPE Out New Worlds
Read more: Astro Campers SCoPE Out New WorldsTeachers at Smokey Mountain Elementary School have collaborated with the NASA Science Activation (SciAct) program’s Smoky Mountains STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Collaborative (SMSC) and project coordinator, Randi Neff, to create a summer camp for students who are passionate about STEM topics. What started as a small summer camp has since evolved into Astro…
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Quantum Scale Sensors used to Measure Planetary Scale Magnetic Fields
Read more: Quantum Scale Sensors used to Measure Planetary Scale Magnetic FieldsMagnetic fields are everywhere in our solar system. They originate from the Sun, planets, and moons, and are carried throughout interplanetary space by solar wind. This is precisely why magnetometers—devices used to measure magnetic fields—are flown on almost all missions in space to benefit the Earth, Planetary, and Heliophysics science communities, and ultimately enrich knowledge…
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Asteroids, DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test), Missions, planetary science, Planetary Science Division, Science Mission Directorate, Tech Industry, Tech News, The Solar System
NASA’s DART Mission Sheds New Light on Target Binary Asteroid System
Read more: NASA’s DART Mission Sheds New Light on Target Binary Asteroid SystemIn studying data collected from NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission, which in 2022 sent a spacecraft to intentionally collide with the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, the mission’s science team has discovered new information on the origins of the target binary asteroid system and why the DART spacecraft was so effective in shifting Dimorphos’ orbit. In five recently…
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Webb directly images giant exoplanet that isn’t where it should be
Read more: Webb directly images giant exoplanet that isn’t where it should beSix times bigger than Jupiter, the planet is the oldest and coldest yet imaged.
